2022 Speakers
Co-Chairs
Renée Pelletier
Managing Partner
Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP
Tuma Young
Lawyer & Indigenous Law Professor
Cape Breton University
Speaker Faculty
Darlene Bernard
Chief
Lennox Island Mi’Kmaq First Nation
Jeff Callaghan
Partner
McInnes Cooper
Shirley P Dawe
Executive Director, Crown-Indigenous Consultation Coordination/Nòkwewashk
Natural Resources Canada
Debbie Eisan
Community Planner
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center
Justice D. Timothy Gabriel
Judge
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
Twila Gaudet, BA, LL.B.
Director of Consultation
Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative
Sandra Gogal
Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Bryn E. Gray
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Sacha LaBillois
Chief
Ugpi'ganjig, Eel River Bar
Cheyenne Labrador
Special Projects Manager
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre
Alexander J. Levi
RIRSD Table Coordinator & Co-Communication Engagement Coordinator
Kopit Lodge
Adam Levine
Team Leader, Indigenous Relations and Participant Funding
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Elizabeth Anne Logue
Director, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
UN Declaration Implementation Secretariat at the Department of Justice
Janice Maloney
Executive Director
Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative
Justine Maloney
Employment/Economic Development Coordinator
Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association
Tom Mann
Aboriginal Relations
Belledune Port Authority
Wilbert Marshall
Chief
Potlotek First Nation
Bruce McIver
Managing Partner, Counsel for Kopit Lodge
First People's Law
Samantha Noganosh
Lands, Resources and Environment Department Manager
Magnetawan First Nation
Jesse Perley
Director of First Nations Affairs
NB Power
Patrick Polchies
Director
Kingsclear First Nation
James Richardson
Economic Development Officer
Pabineau First Nation
Caryma Sa’d
Lawyer
Law Office of Caryma Sa’d
Dan Villeneuve
President
Great Northern Port
