In order to ensure that the LCO fully considers the practical and theoretical implications that this Project raises, we have established an Advisory Committee.
The Advisory Committee is made up of legal practitioners, academics from law and other relevant disciplines, representatives from community and advocacy organizations and government representatives with particular expertise in the area of legal capacity, decision making and guardianship. The role of the Advisory Committee is to provide advice on the issues raised by documents released in this Project, provide input into the Consultation Strategy in this Project and provide feedback on the impact or effectiveness of potential LCO recommendations.
The current members of the Advisory Committee are:
- ARCH Disability Law Centre
- Joanne Bertrand – Ontario Caregiver Coalition
- Alexandra Carling-Rowland – College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists
- Dr. Carole Cohen – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Julia Fisher – Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee of Ontario
- Professor Joan Gilmour – Osgoode Hall Law School
- Jan Goddard – Goddard Gamage Stephens LLP
- David Harvey – Alzheimer Society of Ontario
- D’Arcy Hiltz – Hiltz Szigeti LLP
- The Honourable Madam Justice Susan Himel – Superior Court of Justice of Ontario
- Gordon Kyle and Brendon Pooran – Community Living Ontario
- Anne Bowlby – Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- Roslyn Shields – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Laura Metrick – Ministry of the Attorney General
- Lora Patton – Consent and Capacity Board
- Frank Wagner – Ethicist/Joint Centre for Bioethics
- Judith Wahl – Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
- Laura Watts – British Columbia Law Institute