An Overview of Bill 9 Proposed Changes
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Kristopher Kinsinger
Clerks
Practice Areas
Kristopher Kinsinger is a lawyer with SV Law’s Civil Litigation and Municipal Law practice groups. He has appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice, the Ontario Superior Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court. His areas of practice include:
-Civil and commercial litigation
-Defamation law
-Applications for judicial review
-Constitutional and Charter advocacy
-Provincial Offences Act prosecutions and defences
-Regulatory proceedings
Kristopher received his Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019, where he was the recipient of several scholarships and prizes, before completing his articles of clerkship with a national law firm in Waterloo. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020 and received his Master of Laws from McGill University in 2021 on a SSHRC scholarship and with the Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law.
Between 2021 and 2024, Kristopher served full-time as the national director of the Runnymede Society, a major Canadian law association. During this same period, he was counsel with a boutique litigation firm in Toronto. His writing on legal issues regularly appears in The Supreme Court Law Review, the National Post, and The Hub.
Kristopher served two terms between 2017 and 2023 on the board of directors of Christian Legal Fellowship, Canada’s national association of Christian lawyers and law students, is a past chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Constitutional and Human Rights Section. He currently serves as a senior fellow with the Cardus think tank and an adjunct lecturer at Redeemer University.
In his free time, Kristopher can be found reading, writing, drinking coffee, listening to vinyl, or mapping out his next backcountry camping trip.
Called To Bar
2020
Education
- Certificate in Provincial Offences Court Practice, Osgoode Hall Law School (2026)
- LL.M., McGill University (2021)
- J.D., Osgoode Hall Law School (2019)
- B.A. (Hons.), University of Waterloo (2016)
Professional Credentials
Memberships & Professional Appointments
- Barrister and Solicitor, Law Society of Ontario
- Member and Past Director, Christian Legal Fellowship
- Member and Director, Runnymede Society
- Member and Past Section Chair, Canadian Bar Association
- Member and Past Director, Wellington Law Association
- Member, Waterloo Region Law Association
Awards & Accolades
- NextGen Fellow (2021-2022, Cardus)
- Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law (2021, McGill University)
- Bora Laskin Prize (2019, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University)
- Hon. Ian Scott Public Interest Internship Award (2017, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University; awarded for internship w/ Christian Legal Fellowship)
- Hon. William G.C. Howland Award of Excellence Entrance Scholarship (2016, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University; renewed in 2017 and 2018)
Community Involvement
- Member and Elder, Hespeler Baptist Church
Articles & Publications
- Gerard Kennedy, Kristopher Kinsinger, and Malcolm Lavoie, eds., Private Rights and the Rule of Law (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2025)
- Gerard Kennedy and Kristopher Kinsinger, “Justiciability, Religious Tenets, and Private Law Causes of Action: Towards a Predictable Framework” (2024) 4 SCLR (3d)
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “To Entrench or Not to Entrench? Canadian Constitutionalism and the Bill of Rights Debate” (2023) 28:1 Rev Const Stud 121; peer reviewed
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “The Evolving Debate Over Section 33 of the Charter” in Peter Biro, ed., The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms and Controversies (Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024); peer reviewed
- Brian Bird and Kristopher Kinsinger, “Constitutional Exegesis, Animating Principles and City of Toronto” (2023) 110 SCLR (2d) 31
- Maxime St-Hilaire, Ryan Alford, and Kristopher Kinsinger, eds., Unwritten Constitutionalism (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023)
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “Bringing About a Reformation? Religious Freedom and Canadian Constitutionalism, 1759-1774" (2022) 105 SCLR (2d) 395
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “Quebec’s Bill 21 and the Secular Conceit of Religious Neutrality" (2020) 13:1/2 IJRF; peer reviewed
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “Restricting Freedom of Peaceful Assembly During Public Health Emergencies” (2021) 30:1 Const Forum Const 1.
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “Positive Freedoms and Peaceful Assemblies: Reenvisioning Section 2(c) of the Charter” (2020) 98 SCLR (2d) 377
- Kristopher Kinsinger, “Inclusive Religious Neutrality: Rearticulating the Relationship Between Sections 2(a) and 15 of the Charter” (2019) 91 SCLR (2d) 219
Representative Work & Notable Transactions
- R. v. Timpson, 2025 ONCJ 738 (co-counsel for municipal prosecutor; convictions entered and fines issued)
- Fair Voting BC v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 ONCA 581 (co-counsel for intervenor; leave to appeal to Supreme Court of Canada denied)
- Vorsteveld v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 CanLII 79624 (FC) (co-counsel for applicant; motion to strike dismissed)
- Fair Voting BC v. AG Canada, 2023 ONSC 6516 (co-counsel for intervenor; upheld above on appeal)
- Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c. Pépin, 2024 QCCQ 299 (scholarship cited by Court at para. 323)
- Mills v Corporation of the City of Calgary, 2024 ABKB 256 (scholarship cited by Court at para. 122)
- UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity v Government of Saskatchewan, 2024 SKKB 23 (scholarship cited by Court at para. 145)
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