Tim Louis – Vancouver Personal Injury, Long Term Disability, Wrongful Dismissal and Estate Litigation Lawyer

In addition to Tim's legal career, he has impressive experience in supporting his community with social activism:

• Vancouver Public Library for four years - elected by fellow board members to be chair. As chair, I significantly increased library services to the print disabled (individuals unable to use physical books)
• Elected to Vancouver City Council 1999-2005. As chair of City Council's Finance Committee, I oversaw a budget of $750 million per annum. I also oversaw the Capital Plan worth $200 million
• Elected to four consecutive three year terms to the Board of Vancity – as you know, the world's largest credit union. My fellow board members elected me chair of the Finance Committee and the Audit Committee and, subsequently, Chair of the Board two years in a row.
• Board member, Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce
• 37 years in private practice as a successful lawyer.

Separate and apart from my public and community boards, I have 40+ years of activism within the disability community:

• Active in the disability community for over 40 years.
• Pacific Transit Cooperative. I co-founded the PTC during my first year of Law School. It was my idea to create the world's only coop made up of Handydart users. PTC successfully won the Translink contract to operate Handydart in Vancouver every year for 27 years.
• One of the co-founders of the BC Coalition of the Disabled [now known as the BC Disability Alliance] in the late 1970's. Over the years, fellow board members elected me many times as the chair of the board.
• I helped to found the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. PIAC takes test cases to Court to set precedents. One of the areas it focuses on is disability cases. I was elected chair several times by my fellow PIAC board members.
• I was one of the co-founders of the Association of CSIL Employers [ACE]. CSIL is a program whereby Health Authorities provide monthly funding to individuals with disabilities such that they may hire personal care attendants directly as opposed to going through a homemaker agency. Ken Kramer, the chair of ACE, and I successfully lobbied the provincial government for a 30% raise in the hourly rate of CSIL personal care attendants.
• I sit on Translink's Handydart User Advisory Committee [HDUAC]. HDUAC members unanimously elected me as HDUAC chair approximately 18 months ago.

Tim also writes a weekly blog on the issues: Tim Louis on the Issues

When he's not working or advocating for change, Tim enjoys the outdoors with long time life partner Penny Parry, listening to audio books and political events.

Penny Parry:

Learn more about Penny:

The Power of Disability
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-artist-creates-giant-book-telling-tale-of-alice-post-wonderland-1.3848555
https://cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cyconline-aug2008-parry.html
https://cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cyconline-mar2009-parry.html
http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/newsreleases/NRyouthadvocate.html
http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/002459.html
https://acycpjournal.pitt.edu/ojs/jcycw/article/view/121