Donald Bourgeois, Contributing Editor, Charity Law

A regular columnist for Lawyers Weekly on charitable and not-for-profit issues, and one of the leading authors in Canada on charity and not-for-profit law, Don has written the following texts for Butterworths Canada: The Law of Charitable and Not-for-Profit Organizations, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions, Charities and Not-for-Profit Fundraising Handbook, Charities and Not-for-Profit Administration and Governance Handbook and Public Law in Canada. He is General Editor for Butterworths Canada and Canadian Centre for Philanthropy Series on Charities and Not-for-Profit Organizations and Past Editor of Charitable Thoughts for the Charity and Not-For-Profit Law Section Newsletter of the Ontario Bar Association.

Don was called to the Ontario Bar in 1984 and joined Carter & Associates as counsel for charitable matters in 2003. He has had extensive experience with the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations as legal counsel in charitable and not-for-profit law, public policy, regulatory law, corporate law, litigation, administrative hearings and legislative drafting.