In a pair of decisions today, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the bodies controlling the legal profession in British Columbia and Ontario can, without violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, refuse to accredit Trinity Western University’s proposed new law school. At issue in Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Western University and in Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada, (Sup. Ct. Canada, June 15, 2018), is the requirement by Trinity Western, an evangelical Christian university, that its students and faculty abide by a religiously-based code of conduct. The so-called Community Covenant Agreement prohibits
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