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The panel will discuss what we can do as lawyers to make the Canadian legal system a more welcoming place for people from the LGBTQ2SI community.  The panelists will provide their insight on obstacles and barriers within the Canadian legal system, how the practice of law is evolving in the pursuit of achieving inclusion and what remains to be done.
 

Chair: Melanie L. Cassidy, Legal Aid Services Commission
Speakers: The Hon. Judge Amy Sakalauskas, Judge of the Provincial and Family Courts of Nova Scotia; Amber M. Chisholm, Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick; Anastacia L. Merrigan, Hicks LeMoine