QANUIPPIT, TAANISHI KIIYA, DANIT’ADA, comment allez-vous, HOW ARE YOU?

You are welcome here.

 

As our society changes, our laws evolve in response – sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly.

LTL was created to help clients navigate this dynamic legal landscape and, within it, to assert and protect rights, to identify opportunities for mutual benefit, to determine a future full of possibility and to protect what they love.

A bit about the founder

My name is Kate Darling, and I am delighted to welcome you to Living Tree Law. Over the last decade, I have assisted clients with Indigenous, Human, Children and Language Rights objectives. I have supported clients on Environmental, Regulatory, Natural Resources, Climate Change, Corporate Governance and Elections issues and initiatives. I have also provided a fair sum of legal research and drafting in the process. I am proud to have worked as General Counsel to successful Indigenous corporations, to have supported elected leaders, corporate boards and circumpolar assemblies and to have contributed as a board member to a variety of hardworking organizations.

 

I am fortunate to have lived, studied and worked across Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario and Nova Scotia as well as in Benin, West Africa and Melbourne, Australia. I have worked in government, the private sector, the not-for-profit sector and academia for a range of inspiring individuals and corporations.

I hold a B.A. from the University of British Columbia, an LL.B. from Dalhousie University, and an LL.M from the University of Melbourne. Most importantly, I am the boss lady of a very active family that, when not fighting the good fight at school and work, can be found high in the mountains or in the surf with boards under our feet.

Memberships & Awards

  • Law Society of Northwest Territories

  • Law Society of Nunavut

  • Law Society of Alberta

  • Law Society of Ontario

  • Nova Scotia Barristers Society

  • Arctic Institute of North America Board of Directors

  • Minister’s Advisory Council on Impact Assessment

  • 2019 Recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40

The B.N.A. Act planted in Canada a living tree capable of growth and expansion within its natural limits. The object of the Act was to grant a Constitution to Canada.

Like all written constitutions it has been subject to development through usage and convention: (Canadian Constitutional Studies, Sir Robert Borden, 1922, p. 55).

Their Lordships do not conceive it to be the duty of this Board—it is certainly not their desire—to cut down the provisions of the Act by a narrow and technical construction, but rather to give it a large and liberal interpretation so that the Dominion to a great extent, but within certain fixed limits, may be mistress in her own house, as the provinces to a great extent, but within certain fixed limits, are mistresses in theirs.

Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General), [1930] 1 DLR 98, p. 107.