Grant has over 45 years of experience working as a lawyer, senior executive, mediator, facilitator and consultant for governments, Indigenous communities, and public and private sector-based organizations in Ontario and across Canada.
Grant has worked with the Ontario Government as a Deputy Minister of Native Affairs (1994/5), Legal Director (2006/13), Assistant Deputy Minister (1992/4 & 2017/23), and Chief of Staff (1990/91). Grant served as the 1st Executive Director of Policy, Equity and Public Affairs at the Law Society of Ontario (2014/16), and as Associate Executive Director of Industry Canada’s Aboriginal Business Canada program (1996/98). Grant was the Association Representative for Grand Council Treaty #3 (1980/81), and Policy Advisor at the Chiefs of Ontario Office (1981/83). As a consultant, Grant was involved with facilitating the Health section of the Kelowna Accord (2005), the Innu Healing Strategy (2005), strategic planning exercises for the Aboriginal To Capital Board (2002/5), Aboriginal Healing & Wellness Strategy (2002), etc.; negotiating self-government for the Meadow Lake Tribal Council (1998/9). Grant mediated the Caledonia dispute at Six Nations in 2006. Grant has been involved in various ways in almost all of the 60+ land claims and land-related settlements Ontario concluded over the last 40 years.
He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1988, and was counsel with Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell, 1988-1990. He was on the founding Board of Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto in 1990 and served on the Board of Community Legal Education Ontario (2017/23). Grant was the practitioner instructor In Aboriginal Law at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2023.
He has a Hon B.A. from Brock University, Politics & Philosophy (1975)
Masters from York University, Social & Political Thought (1977)
LL.B. from University of Toronto Law School (1986)
Advocates’ Society/Harvard-recognized Certificate in Mediation (1998)
Indigenous Services 
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