Fraser Valley – Canadian Elections Tracker is reporting that Lawyer Leah Ballantyne will be the BC NDP Candidate in Abbotsford South,
The Provincial election is October 24.
From the website – Ballantyne Law and Consulting:
Leah Ballantyne Law Corporation provides dedicated legal services in First Nations rights, treaty law, governance, and legal reform. With deep community roots and national advocacy experience, we serve First Nations leaders, grassroots communities, and First Nations-led organizations across Canada.
Leah Ballantyne, LLB, LLM, is a First Nations lawyer and proud member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, a signatory community to Treaty 6. She is the first and only member of her Nation to become a lawyer.
Leah’s lived experience and professional journey are grounded in service to Indigenous peoples and the protection of inherent and treaty rights. As a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, she brings both personal insight and legal expertise to her work in child welfare reform, First Nations justice, and governance.
She is called to the Bar in Manitoba and British Columbia.
My Commitment to Community
As a member of Mathias Colomb Cree Nation and a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, my work is informed by lived experience and a lifelong commitment to justice, integrity, and First Nations self-determination.
My practice centers grassroots leadership, community authority, and the revitalization of First Nations legal systems.
I acknowledge that I live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Xa’xa Temexw ~ sacred lands of the Stó:lō [staw-low] people, particularly the Xwchíyò:m (Cheam) [chee-am], Seabird Island and Sts’ailes [sta-ay-liss] First Nations.
