December 5, 2018 (Meeting 124)
Department of Justice
Andina van Isschot, Acting Senior Counsel
Claire Farid, Senior Counsel
Elissa Lieff, Senior General Counsel, Family, Children and Youth Section, Policy Sector
November 28, 2018 (Meeting 122)
As an individual
Julie Guindon, Lawyer, Mediator, Arbitrator and Parental Coordinator, Société professionnelle Julie I. Guindon
Julie Lane
Laurie Pawlitza, Partner, Torkin Manes LLP
Linda Neilson, Professor Emerita, University of New Brunswick
Nicholas Bala, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University
Robert Harvie, Lawyer, Advisory Board Member, Huckvale LLP, National Self-Represented Litigants Project
Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children
Kathy Vandergrift, President and Chair, Board of Directors
November 26, 2018 (Meeting 121)
As an individual
Daniel Melamed , Torkin Manes LLP
Martha McCarthy , Martha McCarthy & Company LLP
William Fabricius, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University
B'nai Brith Canada
John Syrtash, Counsel
Orly Katz, Assistant to Counsel
Canadian Association for Equality
Brian Ludmer, Advisory Counsel
Canadian Bar Association
Melanie Del Rizzo, Chair, Family Law
Sarah Rauch, Chair, Child and Youth Law
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Shawn Bayes, Executive Director
Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario
Dr. Barbara Landau, Mediator, Arbitrator, Psychologist and Lawyer
Lawyers for Shared Parenting
Gene Colman, Lawyer
Leading Women for Shared Parenting
Paulette MacDonald, Member, Canadian Branch
November 21, 2018 (Meeting 120)
As an individual
Lawrence Pinsky , Taylor McCaffrey LLP and Past Chair, Family Law Section, Canadian Bar Association
Canadian Centre for Men and Families
Jess Haines, Associate Professor, University of Guelph
Robert Samery, Chair of the Board
Luke's Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children
Pamela Cross, Legal Director
National Association of Women and the Law
Suki Beavers, Project Director
National Shared Parenting Association
Heidi Nabert, President
Lynda Baracetti, Director, LGBTQ Issues
The Redwood
Abimbola Ajibolade, Executive Director
West Coast LEAF
Elba Bendo, Director of Law Reform
Kim Hawkins, Executive Director, Rise Women's Legal Centre
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
Shaun O'Brien, Executive Director and General Counsel
November 19, 2018 (Meeting 119)
As an individual
Rollie Thompson, Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Valerie Irvine, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria
Barreau du Québec
Nicolas Le Grand Alary, Lawyer, Secretariat of the Order and Legal Affairs
Siham Haddadi, Lawyer, Secretariat of the Order and Legal Affairs
Valérie Laberge, Member, Family Law Committee
Canadian Association of Social Workers
Janice Christianson-Wood, President
Sally Guy, Director of Policy and Strategy
Canadian Children's Rights Council
Grant Wilson, President
Canadian Equal Parenting Council
Glenn Cheriton, President
Family Law Association of Nunavut
Gillian Bourke, Lawyer
Fédération des associations de juristes d'expression française de common law inc.
Daniel Boivin, President
Harmony House
Leighann Burns, Executive Director, Family Law Lawyer
International Council on Shared Parenting
Edward Kruk, President
Men's Educational Support Association
Alan Hamaliuk, Vice-President
Gus Sleiman, President
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
Shalini Konanur, Executive Director and Lawyer
Silmy Abdullah, Lawyer
UNICEF Canada
Lisa Wolff, Director, Policy and Research
November 5, 2018 (Meeting 117)
Department of Justice
Laurie Wright, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister
Nathalie Drouin, Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada
Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada