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Kelly Duquette Associate

Speaks:  English

Year of Call: 2020 - Ontario

Primary phone: +1 613-233-1781 Ext 57655

Fax: +1 613-563-9869

Email: kelly.duquette@gowlingwlg.com

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Primary office:  Ottawa

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Kelly Duquette

Kelly Duquette is an associate in Gowling WLG's Ottawa office, practising in the area of municipal law, with a focus on land use planning, expropriation and municipal tax assessment. 

She regularly works in a variety of municipal areas, where she assists clients with land use planning matters, development disputes, expropriation and the interpretation of municipal by-laws. She acts on matters for all sides of the development industry, including developers, municipalities and community organizations. Kelly has also appeared before the Landlord and Tenant Board.

Kelly is a member of Gowling WLG's national Exproriation Law Group, the Ontario Bar Association, the County of Carleton Law Association, the Ontario Expropriation Association and the Indigenous Bar Association. 

As a youth representative on the Métis Nation of Ontario Youth Council (where she is serving her third term), Kelly has gained experience working and consulting with various Indigenous and non-Indigenous government bodies and organizations.

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Career & Recognition

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  • 2020

    • Qualifications (Year of Call/Admission, etc.)
       2020
      Year of Call, Ontario

  • 2019

    • Career
      January 2019
      Aboriginal Lands, Resources and Governments Intern (Osgoode Hall Law School/Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Courts)
    • Education
       2019
      University of Ottawa, JD, Common Law

  • 2018

    • Career
      September 2018
      Legislative Development Intern, Senate of Canada
    • Career
      May 2018
      University of Ottawa, Undergraduate Research Assistant
    • Community
      April 2018
      Indigenous Law Students Association, Secretary

  • 2017

    • Career
      May 2017
      Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, Debwewin Summer Law Program

  • 2016

    • Career
      May 2016
      Lands and Economic Development Sector - Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Junior Program Analyst
    • Rankings & Awards
       2016
      Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Scholarship, First Place in Painting
    • Education
       2016
      University of Ottawa, BFA with a minor in Aboriginal Studies, Painting, Magna Cum Laude
    • Rankings & Awards
       2016
      University of Ottawa, Graduated Magna Cum Laude

  • 2014

    • Community
       2014
      Métis Nation of Ontario, Region One Youth Representative

Memberships

  • Indigenous Bar Association

Insights & Resources

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Cannabis farming Articles
07 February 2023 Challenging restrictive municipal cannabis regulation (part two): Whose jurisdiction is it anyway?
inside of a greenhouse Articles
19 December 2022 Challenging restrictive municipal cannabis regulation (part one): Is weed agriculture?
Client work
12 December 2022 CCOC obtains municipal tax exemptions and multi-million dollar tax refund on Ottawa properties

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12 June 2023 Gowling WLG helps Ontario affordable housing provider obtain municipal tax exemptions and multi-million dollar tax refund on Ottawa properties

"Kelly Duquette connects to her Métis culture through art", CBC News, Mar. 16, 2019.

"Canadian Residential School Curriculum," Government of Northwest Territories, Government of Nunavut, and the Legacy of Hope Foundation, p. 57., Canada, 2013.

"Dreamcatcher and the Seven Deceivers", David Bouchard, More than Words Publishers, North Vancouver, British Columbia, p. 4., Canada, 2013.