Author: John Sikkema

John Sikkema serves as in-house Legal Counsel for the ARPA Canada. In his role, John provides legal research for ARPA’s board and staff, conducts federal and provincial legal policy analysis, assists with court interventions and cases, and lobbies Members of Parliament, among other things. His work focuses on constitutional law. John studied Business and Political Science, completing Brock University's combined honours program in 2011. He studied law at Queen's and graduated in 2014. He articled at Keel Cottrelle LLP in Toronto. In 2017, John argued the first case to successfully use freedom of expression to broaden access to information from the executive branch of government (2017 ONSC 3285). John has also served as co-counsel for interveners in the Supreme Court of Canada and in the Court of Appeal in Ontario, B.C., and Nova Scotia. His writing has appeared in the National Post, Policy Options, Comment, Convivium, and the Christian Legal Journal.