Rachel Doran Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Senior management lead in the Minister’s office on cross-government implementation of Canada’s strengthened climate plan.
• Key policy and strategic advisor to advance the government’s domestic climate agenda, including revising Canada’s Nationally Determined Contribution, managing Supreme Court and other litigation, advancing net zero.
• Provided direct support to the Minister and Chief of Staff on key political issues and policy files, including communications, political strategy and relationship building internal and external to government.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• As principal political advisor and strategist to the Minister, led efforts to define, implement, and communicate the Minister’s mandate, with daily responsibility for issues management, negotiation and mediation on.
• Directed day-to-day operations in a fast-paced and high-profile environment in which breaking news and legislative developments require immediate response and problem-solving
• Led strategic communications to amplify the Government’s agenda and develop mitigation strategies for reactive issues.
• Responsible for setting legislative priorities and accomplishing goals through effective project management and prioritization
• Recruited, managed and retained a high-performance team of 24 staff members by applying a leadership style focused on facilitation and participation. Planned and directed operating budget with surpluses each fiscal.
• Facilitated legislative and policy accomplishments including proposed changes to Canada’s Criminal Code relating to Mandatory minimum penalties, legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• As Chief of Staff to a Minister leading a new department, I used my background focused on Indigenous rights and reconciliation to help shape the priorities and vision of this new department and developed strategies to.
• Working closely with the Minister, Indigenous partners, my team and the department we eliminated almost twice as many boil water advisories the year we led the work than any other year on record. We co-developed and.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Prime Minister's key policy advisor on Justice, Indigenous Services, Women and Gender Equality, Accessibility and Disability Inclusion and Crown-Indigenous Relations
• Responsible for synthesizing, approving, and drafting all advice provided to the Prime Minister and his senior staff in my areas of practice
• Synthesized a high volume of information, including engaging with thought leaders, stakeholders and across government to advise the Prime Minister on approach and shape communications and government strategy on.
• Engaged in strategic planning with ministerial offices and the public service to ensure that all government priorities were met, and issues were identified and mediated.

Toronto, Canada Area

• As counsel in the Legal Services Branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources. I advised clients across the Ministry on Aboriginal and treaty rights in relation to natural resource management, managed litigation and.
• Practice included work on the Far North Act, species at risk, caribou, forestry, and aggregate extraction

Toronto, Canada Area

• Business-side advisor on a high-profile special project to migrate case-related data from 46 Children’s Aid Societies into a new provincial IT network. Responsible for consultation with client societies, liaising with.

Public Safety And Defence Section- Ontario Regional Office

As a civil litigator for the Ontario Regional Office of the Federal DOJ, I had a busy practice focused on administrative, labour and constitutional law. I pled cases before the Superior, Federal and Small Claims Courts as well as before the Workplace Safety and Insurance Tribunal and the Public Service Labour Relations Board.

Rotated through Business, Tax, Aboriginal and Public Safety and Defence divisions of the Department of Justice as well as the Public Prosecution Service.Drafted memoranda, motions, affidavits and contributed to the creation of legal opinions and research in connection with complex constitutional litigation.

Montreal, Canada Area

I spent two months after my call to the Quebec bar working as an articling student at this boutique Aboriginal law firm. In this capacity, I conducted research on issues related to self-governance, management, and Aboriginal rights.

Montreal, Canada Area

The Mile End Legal Clinic is a network of volunteer law students and jurists who work together to provide legal solutions for clients. As the first full-time coordinator, I developed systems and funding to ensure the ongoing ability of the Clinic to provide assistance to clients, assisted with strategic planning with the Board of Directors, and supervised.

Conducted legal research, assisted in specific claims negotiations, collaborated on inter-ministerial committee on Métis issues, drafted memoranda related to specific claims litigation.

I am completed a student clerkship with the court, including completing research projects and writing bench memos for the three judges of the court. I was also involved in the public education functions of the court.

I worked with a boutique family law firm in Montreal, Quebec as a researcher on client files, including issues of private international law, tax law, youth protection, property law and women's rights.

This project is an international research project on current matrimonial property law in Australia, Canada and the United States. Researchers in each of these countries are completing a historical view of policy change in this area, including a comparative analysis of marital property law in each province. The final product will be a memo and workshops.

As a student working in the Youth Division at Educaloi, I was responsible for creating plain language legal resources for use in highschool classrooms. This work involved evaluation of current Quebec curriculum, analysis of pedagogical techniques, creation of curriculum content, and production of final resources.

Ll.B./B.C.L., Law

Activities and Societies: Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Pro Bono Students Canada, Aboriginal Law Association.

Honours B.A., Honours In International Development Studies, Major In English Literature