Tyler McTaggart — Researcher, Advocate, Veteran

Designations & Credentials

Credential	Institution	Status
Licensed Paralegal (P1)	Law Society of Ontario, via Fanshawe College PLG1 (OCAS #261765486)	Enrolled — Sept 2026
M.Ed. (Open, Digital, and Distance Education)	Athabasca University	In Progress
Diploma, Marketing	Fanshawe College, London	Completed
QL5 Materials Technician	Canadian Armed Forces	Completed

Research

Methodology

Double-Blind Autoethnography — Novel methodology. The researcher did not know they were researching; the institution did not know it was being studied. Both records were produced independently over a decade. Freedom of information returns force convergence. No observer effect on either side. No existing precedent in the literature.

Iron Gate Doctrine — Ethical framework for AI-assisted professional practice. A forensic provenance chain proves human authorship through timestamped, hashed documentation of every human input, machine processing step, and output. The Hawking Parallel: the tool is accommodation, not replacement.

Forensic Correlation Methodology — Computational provenance architecture linking human direction to machine-assisted output with cryptographic verification. Open-source tool: forensic_correlation_log.py.

Disciplines

Critical Disability Studies Qualitative Methodology Veterans Studies Law & Society AI Ethics Clinical Psychology Housing Policy Education & Pedagogy Computer Science Cultural Studies

PhD Thesis

"Keys to the Cuffs"

Full title: The Capability Paradox: Institutional Misrecognition, Unconscious Documentation, and the Architecture of Accommodation Failure in a Canadian Veteran

Mixed-methods: qualitative narrative, quantitative provenance data, and computational tool architecture. Ten-year dataset. Ten-institution pattern. Nine academic disciplines from one case study. Forensic-grade, multi-layer accommodation data unprecedented in disability studies.

Publications

Thirteen papers across nine disciplines. Full texts available post-proceedings.

#	Title	Target	Status
1	The Unconscious Archive Journal of Autoethnography	Methodology	Draft
2	Net vs. Swamp: Three Veterans, Three Outcomes Journal of Veterans Studies	Veterans Studies	Draft
3	The Banner/Hulk Coexistence Model Disability Studies Quarterly	Clinical Framework	Draft
4	The Capability Paradox Studies in Social Justice	Empirical	Draft
5	Double-Blind Autoethnography Qualitative Inquiry	Methodology	Draft
6	The Gates: AI-as-Accommodation Canadian Journal of Disability Studies	Technology	Draft
7	The Iron Gate: Provenance, Authorship, and AI Ethics AI & Ethics	Philosophy	Conceptual
8	Before the Bench, Behind the Credential Canadian Journal of Law & Society	Law	Conceptual
9	The Sheepdog Model Housing Studies	Housing Policy	Draft
10	The Contemporary Document Qualitative Inquiry	Digital Methods	Draft
11	The Asymmetric Calderbank Canadian Lawyer Magazine	Legal Practice	Draft
12	The Collective Unconscious Archive Journal of Popular Music Studies	Cultural Studies	Conceptual
13	Capitalism 101 in the Name of Communism Harvard Negotiation Law Review	Negotiation Strategy	Conceptual

Professional Practice

Independent Legal Advocate (2015 – Present)

Seven concurrent legal and administrative proceedings across multiple jurisdictions, including the Landlord and Tenant Board, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Veterans Review and Appeal Board, and Ontario Court of Justice. All filings self-prepared with AI-as-accommodation. Independently scored 9.3–9.5/10 by internal review.

LP Candidate — Fanshawe College, Paralegal Program (September 2026)

Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) portfolio built from active caseload. Target: LSO P1 licensing examination, 2027.

Public Service

Yellow House Tenant Advocacy (YHTA) Fund Filing fee coverage for tenants in housing disputes. Self-sustaining: costs awards from opposing parties fund the next tenant's filing. No tenant pays.

Dad Club London — Former Vice President Led $53,000 AED (Automated External Defibrillator) campaign. CBC News coverage. App development for club operations.

Canadian Armed Forces — Veteran QL5 Materials Technician (Welder). Honourable service.

Technology & Intellectual Property

MARCUS Advocacy Platform

Forensic case intelligence platform for legal advocates, tenant organizations, veterans’ service agencies, and disability rights clinics. Transforms unstructured client interactions into tribunal-ready case files with forensic-grade evidence chains. Hosted subscription (SaaS).

Tool	Function
MARCUS	Case intelligence, intake, classification, jurisdiction routing
DIANA	Document drafting, statutory language, tribunal-specific formatting
SENTINEL	Real-time monitoring, breach detection, deadline tracking
ESCALON	Escalation logic, multi-wave deployment, cost-shifting automation
ARCHIVE	Evidence storage, forensic chain of custody, PIPEDA-compliant data management

IP: Methodology published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Operational implementation: trade secret. Indigenous community edition: free, perpetual, data sovereignty guaranteed. — Banting Principle

Other Tools

Forensic Correlation Log Open-source computational provenance tool (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Timestamped, SHA-256 hashed, machine-readable. Documents human-AI collaboration with cryptographic verification.

Cross-Language Accessibility Platform Multilingual video conference accessibility tool. Co-developed with international collaborator.