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Tel:
(416) 964-5535
Email:
dbisnar@cavalluzzo.com
Danielle Bisnar is a partner with Cavalluzzo LLP practising in the areas of workers’ rights, equality, health and Indigenous rights/Aboriginal law. She represents unions and other institutional clients, individual workers, regulated professionals, and First Nations in diverse contexts including labour disputes, government relations, human rights and constitutional law, pay equity, professional discipline, judicial reviews and appeals. She has particular expertise in the health care, policing and public sectors. Danielle has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and federally, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and regularly litigates before provincial tribunals and arbitrators. Danielle has extensive experience litigating complex systemic discrimination claims including leading pay equity and equality cases on behalf of women, racialized and disabled workers. She has twice represented the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) as an intervener in appeals relating to workplace gender discrimination: first in Canada v. Johnstone, a leading Federal Court of Appeal case on family status discrimination, and second in Fraser v. Canada, a Supreme Court of Canada case on adverse effect discrimination and pension equality for women with caregiving responsibilities.
