Russ Weninger is an immigration and estate planning lawyer and the co- founder of the law firm Wenninger Zhang in Calgary. Rekha McNutt is an immigration lawyer and partner at Caron & Partners LLP in Calgary.
The Alberta government’s attacks on the rule of law would be difficult without willing participants in the legal profession. When the province passed legislation that erased Canada’s colonial history from lawyers’ professional education, it marked a failure of the profession’s first collective test.