Law Commission of Ontario adds Olha Dobush, Natalia Rodriguez to board of governors

“Their hard work and dedication to the LCO’s work over many years have significantly contributed to the LCO’s success,” the LCO said in its news release. 

The LCO’s page for its board of governors gives more information on the two recent additions. 

Olha Dobush

Dobush has been an assistant deputy attorney general with the MAG’s Victims and Vulnerable Persons Division since January 2021. In this role, she helps develop, deliver, and oversee policies, programs, and services supporting the province’s victims of crime and vulnerable persons. 

Before joining the MAG, she worked at Ontario’s Ministry of Long-Term Care, where she spearheaded initiatives promoting the long-term care sector’s response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dobush was also director of public appointments and agency governance at the Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat, director of chronic disease and injury prevention at Peel Region, and interim assistant deputy minister and director of strategic initiatives of the Health Promotion Division at the Ministry of Health. 

Her work has covered public policy, corporate governance, strategic planning, program management, service delivery, and human resources. 

Dobush earned a BCom from the Toronto Metropolitan University and an MBA in international management from the University of London in the UK. 

Natalia Rodriguez

Rodriguez has been a partner at Conway Baxter Wilson LLP, a boutique litigation firm based in Ottawa. Her civil litigation and dispute resolution practice focuses on commercial litigation, public and administrative law, and appellate advocacy. 

She has been an LSO bencher and a Law Society Tribunal adjudicator. She has also served as: 

• commission counsel at the Foreign Interference Commission, which looked into any foreign actor interference and its effects on the integrity of the 43rd and 44th general elections and recommended how to keep the federal democratic processes safe from such foreign actors 
• commission counsel at the Elliot Lake Commission of Inquiry from 2012–14, which delved into the collapse of the Algo Centre Mall and the resulting emergency response 
• senior commission counsel at the Public Order Emergency Commission starting in May 2022, which addressed the events leading to the Canadian government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, 1985, in February 2022 

Rodriguez worked as a judicial law clerk to former justice Louis LeBel at the Supreme Court of Canada and former justices Russell Juriansz, John Laskin, and Stephen Goudge at the Court of Appeal for Ontario.