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Philippine Ambassador-Designate to Canada Arrives in Ottawa

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The Embassy of the Philippines to Canada is pleased to announce the arrival of Ambassador-designate Rodolfo D. Robles in Ottawa last October.

Ambassador-designate Robles’s appointment as Philippine Ambassador to Canada follows a distinguished career in the Philippine private and public sector. An honors graduate of San Beda College, he topped the bar exam in 1967 and proceeded to take his Master of Laws at Harvard University.

While known as founder and Senior Partner of Robles, Brillantes, Ricafrente, Nachura, & Aguirre Law Firm, Ambassador-designate Robles also has the distinction of being one of the founders of Arellano University School of Law, currently one of the largest law schools in the Philippines. He has also served in the academe as Professor of Law at San Beda College and Dean of Arellano Law School from 1977 to 1983.

His storied legal career includes his election as Delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention and, more recently, appointment as a member of the Consultative Committee to review the 1987 Constitution. Ambassador-designate Robles is also known as the principal author of the law creating the Office of the Ombudsman and principal author of the Philippines’ Miranda Doctrine.

Ambassador-designate Robles is scheduled to present his credentials to the Governor-General of Canada later this year. END.

Ambassador Robles Joins Webinar for Filipinos In Quebec

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Ambassador Rodolfo Robles (2nd Row, 2nd from left) welcomes participants from Quebec to a webinar organized by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Toronto, some of whom are shown above.

Ambassador Rodolfo D. Robles welcomed participants to the webinar hosted by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Toronto on Online Payroll Deductions and Tax Preparation for OFWs based in Quebec. The online event took place on Saturday, 31 October 2020.

This was the first event attended by Ambassador Robles with the Filipino diaspora in Canada since his arrival in Ottawa early this month.

ADVISORY for DUAL CITIZENSHIP APPLICANTS

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