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Chris joined W&Co. as a Senior Counsel in 2025, where he works for Indigenous peoples across Canada. His practice focuses on Aboriginal, environmental, administrative, and constitutional law, with an emphasis on litigation. Chris’s litigation practice includes Aboriginal title, treaty, and duty to consult cases, challenges to permits issued for resource development projects, and regulatory proceedings for mining, hydroelectricity, energy transmission, oil sands, and pipeline projects. He represents clients in specific claims and in negotiations with government and industry. He advises clients on a broad range of matters, including the Indian Act, lands, governance, environmental, archaeological, and cultural heritage protection, and tort, contract, property, and other private law matters.
Chris holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts & Science and Political Science from McMaster University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Chris is proud to help his clients build a more just relationship with the Canadian state. He loves learning history, working with experts in a wide variety of disciplines, and spending time with elders, land users, and community members.