Author Archives: Collin May

About Collin May

Collin May is a lawyer and Adjunct Lecturer in Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine and the former Chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission and a past member of the Provincial Council of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta.

Modernizing Professional Regulation is a Worthwhile Goal

By: Collin May

Matter Commented On: Review of Alberta Professional Regulation

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Recently, more than one commentator has dismissed the Alberta government’s recent promises to reform professional regulation, including our own regulator, the Law Society of Alberta, as little more than grievance politics (see Shaun Fluker’s comment, here). However, the need to modernize Canada’s rather dated professional regulatory regime, with its excessive emphasis on self-governance, has been evident to many of us for a while now.

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