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Macdonald Scott

Languages Spoken

  • English

Practice Areas

Immigration consultant; organizing around migrant justice and around poverty.

Macdonald Scott

Mac Scott is Carranza LLP's immigration consultant. Over his 20-year career working with immigration, Mac has accumulated several high-profile immigration cases in his arsenal and has been able to support organizing around migrant justice and poverty using his immigration legal skills.

Born and raised in Toronto, Mac's propensity to litigate and agitate was largely influenced by punk rock and his mother, who was a devoted feminist and instilled in him the tools and desire to make inroads for justice.

Mac became an activist at the age of 21, participating in anti-war campaigns and rallying around indigenous solidarity. His passion for justice paved the way for his professional devotion to the legal field when he began working with immigration as a volunteer for the Ontario Coalition against Poverty in 1997, a reverence that continues to this day. His professional curriculum includes "Legal worker of the year" at the National Lawyers Guild, which was the first bar association in the US to be racially integrated, along with being Carranza's most featured individual on Google.

On his spare time, Mac enjoys spending time with his family, his collective house, happy hour, science fiction and bad suits, not necessarily in that order.

Education

  • B.A. York University
  • Paralegal Diploma Humber College
  • Immigration Practitioner Seneca College

Affiliations

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; No One Is Illegal; Law Union of Ontario; Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

 

Awards

Legal worker of the year, National Lawyers Guild

Noteworthy Cases

  • Chaudhary v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2015 ONCA 700 (CanLII)  - allowed Ontario Courts to look at the detention of an immigrant by way of Habeas Corpus
  • Brown v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2017 FC 710 (CanLII) challenging the Canadian scheme for immigration detention
  • Klein v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 1004 (CanLII) challenging treatment of an indigent person applying for permanent residency based on humanitarian considerations
  • Mvog (2014 Canada) United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention opinion that Canada was in violation of international in detaining migrant Michael Mvogo for almost ten years

Languages Spoken

  • English

Practice Areas

Immigration consultant; organizing around migrant justice and around poverty.

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1280 Finch Ave. West, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 3K6, Canada

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Toll Free:1-877-633-1065
Phone: 416-633-1065
Fax: 416-633-9782
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