Fluent in English, French and Dutch, John Carpay earned his B.A. in Political Science from Laval University, Quebec City, and his LL.B. from the University of Calgary. He practiced law in Calgary before serving the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as Alberta Director from 2001 to 2005. John served as co-counsel for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation when it intervened in Benoit v. Canada (Federal Court Trial Division, 2002; Federal Court of Appeal, 2003) to argue that race and ancestry should not be factors in taxation. Since 2005, he has served the Canadian Constitution Foundation as its first full-time Executive Director. In R. v. Kapp, John represented the intervener Japanese Canadian Fishermens Association before the Supreme Court of Canada. He is counsel for Chief Mountain and other Nisga’a plaintiffs who are challenging the Nisga’a Final Agreement legislation. John, his wife Barbra, and their three children reside in Calgary.