Dr. Kim Stanton is a lawyer, called to the bar in British Columbia (BC) and Ontario, whose legal practice has focused on equality law, constitutional law, Indigenous rights law, and addressing gender-based violence. She was a partner in the Aboriginal law group of Goldblatt Partners LLP in Toronto, focusing on the intersection of Indigenous rights litigation and constitutional law, prior to her appointment in 2020 as a Commissioner on the Mass Casualty Commission(the joint federal/provincial inquiry into the April 2020 Nova Scotia mass casualty). The Commission issued its comprehensive final report in March 2023 and addressed issues including gender-based violence, policing, access to firearms, mental health, public alerting and community safety. In 2024, the BC government appointed Dr. Stanton to conduct an independent systemic review
of the BC legal system’s treatment of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. She released her final report in June 2025.
A former legal director of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund
(LEAF),
Dr. Stanton served two terms with the federal Minister of the Status of Women’s Advisory Council on the Federal Strategy Against Gender-based Violence. For seven years, she served as an adjudicator on the Ontario Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and Health Services Appeal and Review Board.
She has published articles in the areas of equality and constitutional law, transitional justice and public inquiries. Her
book
Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada (UBC Press, 2022) was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.
Dr. Stanton is a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, where she completed her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in law.
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