Doron Clive Lurie

Doron acts for expropriating authorities and for expropriated landowners across Ontario. He earned two law degrees from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where he received the Chief Justice R.A.E. Greenshields Memorial Scholarship and the F.R. Scott Prize in Constitutional Law. During his legal studies, Doron served as a Senior Editor on the McGill Law Journal, and spent a summer working in the Enforcement Branch of the Alberta Securities Commission, assisting in the prosecution of capital markets fraud. Prior to joining private practice, Doron completed his articles in the Solicitors Group of the Regional Municipality of Durham, which gave him an in-house perspective on legal practice at a large expropriating authority. Doron is a member of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations and the Ontario Expropriation Association.

On May 29, 2026, Irene Wong and Doron Lurie presented an education session at the 2026 National Conference of the Appraisal Institute of Canada titled “Screening out the Scheme: Guidance for Appraisers from Recent Expropriation Caselaw.” Their session focused on the…

On May 11, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Government of Canada will be committing more than $12 billion towards 5 public transit projects across the GTHA. Approximately $10.7 billion will be going towards funding four priority subway projects…

Introduction When a landowner in Ontario is expropriated by an expropriating authority, such as by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO), Metrolinx or by a municipality, the expropriated owner is entitled to be paid sufficient financial compensation to make him or her…

On May 27, 2020, MPP John Yakabuski (Renfrew-Nipissing Pembroke) announced that the Government of Ontario would be moving forward with the long-awaited widening of Highway 17 from two to four lanes between Arnprior and Renfrew. For Stage 1 of the project,…