Item - 2023.MM7.27

City Council on June 14 and 15, 2023, adopted the following:

1. City Council appoint Stephen Littlejohn as Lobbyist Registrar effective September 7, 2023, subject to and following written acceptance by the candidate of the prescribed Accountability Officer employment agreement offered by the City, for a 7-year non-renewable term ending on September 7, 2030, with all the powers and duties imposed upon the Lobbyist Registrar by Chapter 3, Accountability Officers, of the City of Toronto Municipal Code.

2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary Bills to give effect to City Council's decision.

3. City Council authorize the public release of the Curriculum Vitae Summary in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 12, 2023) from the Chair, Lobbyist Registrar Selection Panel.

The following curriculum vitae summary for Stephen Littlejohn is now public:

STEPHEN LITTLEJOHN

Since 2010, Stephen Littlejohn has been the Inquiries and Investigations Counsel for the Toronto Lobbyist Registrar’s Office. Through his work in the Toronto Lobbyist Registrar’s Office, Mr. Littlejohn advised the Lobbyist Registrar, registry staff, public office holders, lobbyists, and members of the public on the interpretation and application of Toronto's Lobbying By-law. He led the Inquiries and Investigations unit which is responsible for conducting investigations into contraventions of the Lobbying By-law and acted as counsel for the office in these matters. He also served as the Interim Lobbyist Registrar for several months in 2016.

For almost a decade, from 2001 to 2010, he was a Senior Consultant at the City of Toronto's Employee and Labour Relations unit, where he consulted and advised City divisions regarding employee and labour relations matters, and conducted investigations, hearings, mediations and arbitrations. As a Senior Consultant in Human Rights, Mr. Littlejohn developed expertise in human rights issues including resolving discrimination and harassment complaints through investigations, mediations, negotiations, and conciliation, and provided advice and consultation on the City's Human Rights and Harassment Policy to Council, senior staff and key stakeholders.

Mr. Littlejohn is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and was called to the bar in 2000. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association's Administrative Law Section, Law of Lobbying and Ethics Committee. He is also a member of the Lobbyist Registrars and Commissioners Network, a network of federal, provincial and municipal lobbyist registrars and commissioners.

Professional Experience:

2010 to Present -Inquiries & Investigations Counsel, City of Toronto, Office of the Toronto Lobbyist Registrar; Acting Lobbyist Registrar May -September 2016

2001 to 2010 -Senior Consultant, Employee & Labour Relations, People & Equity Division, City of Toronto

2007 to 2008 -Senior Consultant Human Rights, City of Toronto

Education:

Call to the Bar 2000

LLB, University of Windsor -Faculty of Law 1998

Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto – Faculty of Arts & Science 1994
Professional Associations

Law Society of Ontario, member in good standing

Member of the Canadian Bar Association's Administrative Law Section, Law of Lobbying and Ethics Committee

Member of the Lobbyist Registrars and Commissioners Network 

Member of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws 

Member-at-large of the National Executive Committee of the CBA, Administrative Law Section