Schedule

Coffee Break(out rooms)

Visit our virtual coffee room to connect with other conference participants and speakers.

Emerging Food Lawyer Lunch

A meeting of the CAFLP Student Network for students and new practitioners in food law.

Speakers

Indigenous Law, Angela D’Elia Decembrini (First Peoples Law)

UN Food Systems Summit, Michael Fakhri (University of Oregon, Faculty of Law)

Trade Law, Carmen Francis (McCarthy Tétrault)

Advertising, Labeling and Marketing, Glenford Jameson (G. S. Jameson & Company)

Animal Law, Selina Lee-Andersen (McCarthy Tétrault)

Worker’s Rights, Anelyse Weiler (University of Victoria)

Temporary Exemptions to Interprovincial Trade, Ronald Doering (Gowling WLG)

Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council, Catherine Mah (Dalhousie University)

Intellectual Property Law, Marsha Cadogan (MSC Intellectual Property and Technology Law)

Moderator

Jessica Cytryn (McCarthy Tétrault)

Welcome and Keynote

1:15pm - 2:45 pm PST

Welcome with Dean Janine Benedet

and opening keynote with

Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson Gidahl-Guudsdllyaay

Supernatural Oceans: A Worldview for Enlightened Oceans Governance and Territorial Food Systems

Anakhanaow "Bannock" & Jam

In this cooking class you will learn how to prepare two types of bannock and fresh jam – a staple in many Indigenous kitchens and families. While teaching how to make bannock, frybread and berry jam from scratch, chef Scott Iserhoff shares stories, Indigenous food knowledge and politics.

(Vegan friendly)

Requires additional registration and will cost participants $25.

Coffee Break(out rooms)

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Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy Update Members’ Meeting

Join us to receive updates on the CAFLP.

Gowling WLG - Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law

The Gowling WLG – Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law will be awarded to the JD student or recent law school graduate with the best presentation in the area of food law and policy at the Canadian Food Law and Policy Conference.

The Gowling WLG – Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law is in memory of Joel Taller, who passed away on May 13, 2017.  Joel Taller was a pioneer and a well-known expert in the area food law in Canada.  Joel practiced for 34 years in the Ottawa office of Gowling WLG, working with companies of all sizes. Joel was well respected by both industry and government for his legal expertise and sound judgment. He was instrumental in developing the Food & Beverage group at Gowling WLG, a significant team of lawyers and scientists who support companies doing business in Canada, Europe and other jurisdictions around the world. 

Speakers

"Clearly a subjective determination": Interpretations of Undue Suffering at the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal (2000-2019), Andrew Stobo Sniderman (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law)

A Roof Over Our Stomachs: The Right to Housing in Canada & Its Implications for Food Rights, Tasha Stansbury (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law)

Mexican Salsa and Mexican Farm Workers: How International Agricultural Development Marginalizes Farm Labour, Celia Mary White (Osgoode Hall)

How Law Shapes Food Sovereignty in Urban Canada, Julia Witmer (Dalhousie University, Faculty of Law)

Moderator

Stepan Wood (University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law)

Judges

Bita Amani (Queen’s University, Faculty of Law)

Patricia Farnese (University of Saskatchewan, College of Law)

John Leckie (Gowling WLG)

Jacob Shelley (Western University, Faculty of Law)

Mark Youden (Gowling WLG)

film screening and Discussion

Is the Crown at War With Us?

by Alanis Obomsawin

1:15:pm - 2:45pm PST

In this feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin, it's the summer of 2000 and the country watches in disbelief as federal fisheries wage war on the Mi'kmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Casting her cinematic and intellectual nets into history to provide context, Obomsawin delineates the complex roots of the conflict with passion and clarity, building a persuasive defence of the Mi'kmaq position.

Discussion

3:00pm - 4:00pm PST

with Kate Gunn (First Peoples Law) and Sherry Pictou (University of Dalhousie)

Moderated by Patricia Galvao Ferreira

Coffee Break(out rooms)

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