Maggie Wente is a partner at OKT. She is a member of Serpent River First Nation. She advises First Nations and Aboriginal organizations on employment and labour issues, construction law and housing, and on the Indian Act. She works on a variety of civil litigation matters, including Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation. Maggie advises on the duty to consult and accommodate, and negotiation of impacts and benefits agreements. She also provides advice to corporations and non-profit organizations.
Before joining OKT, she practiced human rights, employment and labour law in Toronto and also worked for a trade union litigating grievance arbitration hearings. Maggie is President of the Board of Directors at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto. She became a Commissioner at the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2006. Maggie is a member of the Ontario bar, the Indigenous Bar Association and Rotiio>taties Aboriginal Advisory Group.
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