A Voice for the North
Thomas Berger now practices law at Berger & Company, in partnership with his daughter. The firm’s focuses include medical malpractice, family law, and personal injury. Other sources report that the firm also specializes in Aboriginal law, but curiously the firm’s website makes no effort to associate the firm with 
either Thomas Berger or Aboriginal law.
In other arenas, however, Thomas Berger’s continued commitment to responsible development is more prominent. For example, the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada website records the announcement, made on May 26, 2005, that Thomas Berger was appointed conciliator in negotiations for a new Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Implementation Contract. The announcement, archived online, represents Berger as an authority on Aboriginal law, recalling the Calder case and Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. It also outlines the role he will play in these negotiations. Thomas Berger later created a report based on this inquiry, detailing the successes and failures of the Implementation of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. The report is part of a website maintained by Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated in order to disseminate information about efforts to ensure that the promises of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement are upheld. The web page summarizing Berger’s findings particularly emphasizes his claim that in order for Canada to meet the promises it made under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Implementation Contract a bilingual education system (Inuktitut and English) must be established.
Thomas Berger’s continued interest and work related to northern development is also expressed in the 2004 film Ghosts of Futures Past - Tom Berger in the North. This film, produced for CBC as part of The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, follows Thomas Berger and David Suzuki as they return to some of the communities where Berger held hearings during the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry project. It is an apt resource through which to examine the lasting influence of Berger’s work. A clip from the film, as well as information about distribuation, is available on the eLan Films website.
More recent sources for Thomas Berger’s thoughts on northern policies and development include an interview of Thomas Berger published May 10, 2010 by Inside Edge, an e-magazine published by the Conference Board of Canada. Berger was interviewed in his capacity as 2009–10 CIBC Scholar-in-Residence Research Co-Chair. In this brief interview Thomas Berger expresses his opinions on land-use planning in Canada’s North. Berger articulates these views in more detail during a lecture he gave at Royal Roads University on March 3, 2010 as part of a lecture series associated with the Doctor of Social Sciences Program. Through the Royal Roads website, it is possible to view a video recording of this lecture, titled “From the Mackenzie Valley to Nunavut: Global Challenges in the Canadian Context.” The lecture exemplifies how Berger has been designated as an authority on Canada’s North, as well as on responsible land-use planning throughout the world.