Biographical Notes

KATHLEEN ROUSSEL is the Director of Public Prosecutions. She was appointed June 21, 2017.

Kathleen was Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions from 2013 to 2017. She was responsible for the Regulatory and Economic Prosecutions and Management Branch.

Previously, Kathleen served as Senior General Counsel and Executive Director of the Environment Legal Services Unit at the Department of Justice (Canada), from 2008 to 2013.

From 2001 to 2005, she was the Senior Counsel and Director of the Canadian Firearms Centre Legal Services, before joining the Department of Environment’s legal services later that year. Before joining the public service, Ms. Roussel worked as a criminal defence lawyer. She has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1994 and graduated from the University of Ottawa Law School in 1992, having previously obtained an Honours Religion degree from Queen’s University.

GEORGE DOLHAI graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1987. He practiced in the private sector at McCarthy & McCarthy, before becoming a federal prosecutor in the Toronto Regional Office following the completion of his LL.M. at the University of Cambridge, England. He joined Headquarters to temporarily act as the Supreme Court of Canada Criminal Law appeals coordinator, and thereafter practiced in the Human Rights Law Section and the Office of National Drug Strategy (later known as the Strategic Prosecution Policy Section). He headed up the National Security Group as general counsel until 2001.

In December 2003, he became Senior General Counsel and Director of the Strategic Operations Section of the Federal Prosecution Service.

He has been one of the two Deputy Directors of Public Prosecution since the creation of the PPSC. He was initially appointed on an acting basis on December 12, 2006, and officially appointed to the position May 2, 2012.

DAVID ANTONYSHYN graduated from the Université de Montréal Law School in 1995. He also holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he focused on issues of international human rights law, the law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. For 28 years he served in the Canadian Armed Forces, the last 20 of which in a number of positions within the Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), the legal adviser to the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence in matters of military law. Prior to retiring from the Forces with the rank of colonel, he was the Deputy JAG leading the legal division assisting the JAG in superintending the administration of military justice in Canada and ensuring its responsible development within the broader Canadian justice system. Immediately before that, he was the Assistant Director of the Canadian Military Prosecution Service. Over the years, his practice has included administrative law, criminal law (both as defence counsel and prosecutor), and operational law (Canadian and international law governing the conduct of military operations, in Canada or abroad). He notably served on deployed missions in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Lebanon, and participated on a number of Canadian delegations during international negotiations along with Global Affairs Canada.

David joined the PPSC on November 1, 2018, as one of the two Deputy Directors of Public Prosecutions.