Facilitators
Facilitators
Mr. Nadir André, BLG (Table 2)
Kateri Cree, Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, Justice Services Division (Table 5)
Mr. Sean Dwyer (Table 3)
Mrs. Marjolaine Étienne, President, Quebec Native Women (QNW), (Table 1)
Mr Jacynthe Ledoux, Cain Lamarre (Table 4)
Lori Mishibinijima, Manager of Indigenous Initiatives at Osgoode Hall Law School
(Table 6)
Bio
Mr. Sean Dwyer
Sean has been working in the intercultural communications domain for more than a decade, whether it be as the creator of a Restorative Justice program in Los Angeles County, as a facilitator and mediator within social pediatrics or an assessor for applications for compensation as a survivor of Federal Canadian Indian Day Schools. He intends to continue to participate and contribute to the society around him within this vain for a very long period yet. He holds a LLM from the Université de Montréal; the (translated) title of his thesis is “The application of the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace (Kaianerekowa) in the practice of mediation at Kahnawake”.
Mr Jacynthe Ledoux, Cain Lamarre
Jacynthe Ledoux has been representing First Nations for more than ten years. Her diverse practice includes representing First Nations in environmental law, specific claims, energy law, natural resources, constitutional law, youth protection and human rights.
Jacynthe is a member of the Quebec and Ontario Bars. Her openness to civil law, common law and Indigenous legal traditions makes her prepared to finding original solutions to intricate legal issues.
In recent years, she assisted several First Nations in negotiations related to hydroelectricity, mining and forestry, and in the context of a gas pipeline project impacting the ancestral lands of several Indigenous communities.
Mr Nadir André, BLG
Nadir is a member of the Matimekush-Lac John First Nation and has sound experience in Indigenous law. He services many Indigenous clients, as well as corporations seeking to do business with Indigenous communities and Indigenous businesses in Québec and the rest of Canada.
Nadir is actively involved in certain comprehensive and specified land claim negotiations in Northern Québec. He also specializes in matters connected with natural resource development involving Indigenous communities and businesses in Québec, Newfoundland and Labrador and Northern Ontario.
Kateri Cree, Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, Justice Services Division
Kateri Cree is a lawyer focusing on Aboriginal and treaty rights. She began her career in private practice with Hutchins Legal Inc. and Cain Lamarre in Montreal and developed competencies in a variety of areas such as First Nations governance, First Nations education, impact and benefit agreements, environmental issues affecting Aboriginal people in Northern Quebec, federal and provincial jurisdictional issues on reserve and human rights. She was involved in specific claim negotiations and participated in litigation concerning the recognition of Aboriginal and treaty rights, the right to consultation, the fiduciary duty of the Crown and the assessment of equitable compensation. She is currently involved in the implementation of the Kahnawà:ke Justice Act, including the development of an Administrative Tribunal in Kahnawake and the associated legislative and regulatory drafting.
Kateri is Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Kanesatà:ke and prior to practicing law, she worked in social and clinical psychology both on reserve and in the urban Aboriginal community. She is also a former professional dancer of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Ms. Marjolaine Étienne, President, Quebec Native Women (QNW) since December 5, 2021
Trained in human sciences and community work at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Ms. Étienne has a rich professional experience with more than 15 years of political life and as much in intervention and community development within the Innu First Nation of Mashteuiatsh.
Between 2003 and 2010, she was alternately elected member of the Montagnais du Lac St-Jean Council, then councillor and vice-chief of External Relations. Concerned about making the voice of elected Aboriginal women heard within the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec-Labrador, she set up a working group to provide them with support and training. Her extensive knowledge of the social, economic, cultural and political organization of Aboriginal people in Quebec and Labrador led her to advise the Quebec Minister of Aboriginal Affairs (2012-2013) as well as to be invited by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to attend a human rights certificate training in Geneva in July 2018.
In 2019, she was appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to the Advisory Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples.
Lori Mishibinijima, Manager of Indigenous Initiatives at Osgoode Hall Law School
Lori Mishibinijima is Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory in Ontario. She is currently the Manager of Indigenous Initiatives at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she supports the Indigenization of the school and curriculum. Lori was Legal Counsel with the Human Rights Legal Support Centre for 10 years, where she provided legal representation to individuals respecting matters of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code. She also acted as coordinator and helped develop the HRLSC's Indigenous Service where she supported access to justice for Indigenous people. For the last sixteen years, she has been a member of the Community Council, a criminal diversion program at Aboriginal Legal Services. Lori has also served as the President of Native Men's Residence Board of Directors from 2011 to 2018. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Minaake Award in Advocacy and Human Rights for her contributions to the Toronto Indigenous community.
This content has been updated on 17 March 2022 at 13 h 42 min.