With more than 25 years of extensive regulatory experience, David Hunter provides strategic counsel on complicated aboriginal and environmental legal issues. He acts for mining companies engaged with First Nations in consultation.

Representing First Nations, resource companies, provincial and federal governments, and international agencies with respect to environmental and aboriginal matters, David also acts as counsel in matters relating to Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act, Environmental Protection Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, and the Ontario Mining Act.

David has appeared before the criminal courts in the Province of Ontario, the Ontario Municipal Board, the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board, the Ontario Environmental Review Panel, and the Ontario Energy Board. He is a former Chair of the Joint Public Advisory Committee with respect to the Canada/Chile Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and is a former member of the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board to the International Joint Commission. David was also Counsel to the Niagara Escarpment Commission and Executive Director for the implementation of the Provincial Offences Act. He acted for Irving Oil on environmental matters in the Province of New Brunswick.