Patricia Pledge
Part-time Professor
Patricia Pledge (BA, Carleton 1991; LLB, University of Ottawa, 1994) is Senior Counsel with the Advisory and Development Services Section of the Legislative Services Branch of the Department of Justice. Patricia has been with the Department of Justice since she joined the Health Canada Regulations Section in 1999 as legislative counsel. She spent one year, in 2007 – 2008, as a Senior Drafter with the Transport Canada Regulations Section but otherwise has been with the Advisory and Development Services Section since 2002.
As a member of the Advisory and Development Services Section, in addition to legislative policy development projects, she provides advice to both regulations and legislation drafters in the Drafting Services Group as well as to client departments in respect of their legislative initiatives, focussing on the authority to make regulations. Since 2003, Patricia has been the Chair of the Department of Justice Practice Group on Incorporation by Reference. She also provides training to employees of the Department of Justice on the legal limits of regulation-making and more generally on the use of incorporation by reference. Patricia is an instructor in Introduction to Regulating at the Canada School of the Public Service. She is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa (Statutory Interpretation). She is also completing a Master of Laws in Administrative Law at Osgoode Hall Law School.