Date / Time |
Event |
June 5, 2024 |
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08:00 – 17:00 |
Registration Service Desk |
08:00 – 09:30 |
Breakfast/Networking (In-person) |
08:30 – 09:30 |
CCAT Connections (Virtual)
Experience a CCAT Connections session. Occurring regularly, each CCAT Connections session is a virtual space where CCAT members can share ideas, gain knowledge, and build connections with their administrative law peers. Come to the Symposium’s CCAT Connections session prepared to network with administrative law colleagues as we discuss tribunal accountability for anti-racism and inclusion. |
09:30 – 09:45 |
Welcome & Opening Remarks |
09:45 – 10:00 |
Presentation of CCAT Medal |
10:00 – 10:30 |
Keynote Presentation: A Conversation with The Honourable Mahmud Jamal, Supreme Court of Canada
Moderator: Katharine Evans, Counsel, Compliance and Strategic Initiatives, Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (ON)
Click HERE for presenter biographies. |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Refreshments & Networking |
10:45 – 12:00 |
Panel presentation: Making room for Indigenous legal orders in administrative justice
The Crown’s provision of public programs and services to Indigenous peoples has long taken the form of a discretionary attribution of privileges rather than compliance with legal obligations . In this context, government agencies may be accustomed to viewing calls for action on reconciliation as merely aspirational or voluntary rather than legally or morally imperative. To be responsible for lasting action toward reconciliation, administrative commissions and tribunals must address the colonial foundations of Canadian law and consciously chart a different path forward. This session will explore the transformative potential of the administrative justice community by making space for Indigenous legal orders to advance our shared commitment to reconciliation and strengthen the fundamental accountability and legitimacy of administrative processes.
Moderator: Theresa McGee, Legal Counsel and Indigenous Services Co-Lead, Tribunals Ontario
Panelists:
Darcy Lindberg, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Corey Shefman, Partner, Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP
Click HERE for presenter biographies. |
12:00 – 13:15 |
Luncheon: CCAT Annual General Meeting |
13:15 – 14:15 |
Plenary Presentation: What UNDRIP means for administrative tribunals
Associate Professor Naiomi Metallic discusses how the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affects administrative tribunals within existing (and potential) legislative frameworks, and in light of recent Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, Reference re An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Metis children, youth and families, which refers to Professor Metallic’s publications. Participants will be encouraged to think about how the Declaration applies to administrative law and tribunal policies and processes.
Moderator: Claire Anderson, Commissioner, British Columbia and Yukon, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Presenter: Naiomi Metallic, Associate Professor of Law; Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Aboriginal Law Certificate Coordinator, Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University |
14:15 – 14:45 |
Plenary Presentation: The Honorable Justice Patricia Hennessy, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Justice Hennessy was the presiding trial judge on the treaty rights case of Restoule v Canada. Professor Darcy Lindberg, of the University of Victoria, has written about the case and will engage in a conversation with Her Honour about her work, and how Anishnaabe perspectives were incorporated in considering the historical and cultural context of the signing of the treaties in question. What can administrative decision makers learn from the way this case proceeded as we try to make our own processes more inclusive?
Introduction: Claire Anderson, Commissioner, British Columbia and Yukon, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Moderator: Darcy Lindberg, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria |
14:45 – 15:45 |
Panel Presentation: Critical Theories for Tribunals
In 2022, at CCAT’s Symposium Series, one of the panels focused on critical theories for tribunals and discussed these theories in the context of age, gender, disability, and intersectionality. Among other things, the panel also discussed misconceptions and power dynamics as they impact self-represented litigants.
Patricia DeGuire, the Chief Commissioner of Ontario’s Human Rights Commission, and Odelia Bay, a scholar, PhD candidate and author, are returning this year to delve deeper into these subjects.
Moderator: Carmelle Salomon-Labbé, Associate Director, Office of Appeals, Discipline and Faculty Grievances, University of Toronto
Panelists:
Patricia DeGuire, Chief Commissioner of Ontario’s Human Rights Commission
Odelia Bay, PhD candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
Click HERE for presenter biographies. |
15:45 – 16:00 |
Refreshments & Networking |
16:00 – 17:00 |
Panel Presentation: Best practices to bridge the power gap in administrative proceedings
Representatives from several Canadian institutions will be present to share their unique approaches to bridging the power gap in Canadian administrative proceedings for historically marginalized groups, including policy approaches, practical assistance and more.
Co-moderators:
Laura Brittain, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Refugee Appeal Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Alison Kennedy, Member, Refugee Appeal Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Panelists:
Suzanne Gilbert, Deputy Chairperson, Immigration Appeal Division, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Jennifer Moore Rattray, Chief Operating Officer at Southern Chiefs’ Organization
Jude Samson, Acting Vice-chairperson, Appeal Division, Social Security Tribunal
Click HERE for presenter biographies. |
17:00 – 17:15 |
Closing Remarks |
17:15 |
CCAT/CIAJ Reception |
18:30 |
Dinner (at delegates own cost). |