About Andrew

Andrew Kania is the Senior Counsel of Kania Lawyers, a firm of 7 lawyers, who serves clients across the Province of Ontario.

Andrew has over 33 years of experience in law, after first acquiring his Bachelor of Laws in Toronto and his Master of Laws in Leicester, England, with Distinction. Andrew has appeared in Court on hundreds of occasions, having handled cases at all levels in Canada including the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice – Family Court, the Ontario Court of Justice, the Ontario Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Andrew is also the former Member of Parliament for Brampton West, during which time he served as Associate Justice Critic; a member of Canada’s Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security; a member of the Liaison Committee (a committee with supervisory type functions over House of Commons committees); and as the House of Commons Chair of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, a committee with a secretariat with staff and lawyers charged with scrutinizing all government regulations.

Andrew also formerly represented the over 17,000 lawyers of Ontario as the elected Secretary of the Ontario Bar Association.

Andrew is also a former Instructor of Law at the Law Society of Ontario, teaching both Family Law and Civil Litigation.

Andrew also has extensive involvement with the local community, including sponsoring under privileged families, acting as a co-op partner with local high schools to assist students with their placements and training, and supporting local food banks. In addition, at the requests of Pope Benedict XVI and His Eminence Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former Principal Secretary to Pope John Paul II, Andrew founded a registered Canadian charity to assist with the raising of funds for the construction of the Pope John Paul II memorial in Krakow, Poland.

Andrew has been together with his wife, Susan, for over 30 years and has two sons, Drew and James.