John Sikkema is a founding member of the Acacia Group practicing in both our litigation and solicitor departments.

John works with churches, charities, and other faith-based organizations to assist them with all their legal needs including litigation, policy development, and corporate or charitable matters.

Prior to joining the Acacia Group, John served as Legal Counsel to the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Canada. In that role, John provided legal research for ARPA’s board and staff, conducted federal and provincial legal policy analysis, contributed to their publications, and worked on court cases and interventions. Prior to his work with ARPA, John served as Associate Legal Counsel for Christian Legal Fellowship.

John earned his JD from Queen’s University in 2014 and his LLM from Emory University in 2019, where he was awarded the Gertie and John Witte Prize in Law and Religion “for outstanding work in law and Christianity.”

John has appeared as counsel before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court of Ontario, the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada. John was counsel in a precedent-setting Charter case which struck portions of the Ontario Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act. In that case, John successfully argued that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ guarantee to freedom of expression required the government to provide access to certain data.

John’s writing has appeared in the National Post, Policy Options, Comment, Christian Legal Journal, Law Matters, C2C Journal, and the Supreme Court Law Review, among others. John also serves as an Executive Member of Advocates for the Rule of Law, a Canadian legal think tank.