Jaime obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree with great
distinction from the University of Regina in 1999 and then attended the
University of Toronto to obtain her Bachelor of Laws degree in 2002. After university, Jaime clerked at the
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal under Justice Tallis and Justice Cameron. She began practicing law with Wilson
Rasmussen Poitras in 2003 and also worked at Olive Waller Zinkhan and Waller
early in her career.
In 2007 Jaime was ready for a new challenge and, after a
short term with the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ministry of Justice for
Saskatchewan, Jaime worked as an investigator for Ombudsman Saskatchewan and
the Office of the Public Interest Disclosure Commissioner from 2008-2017. For much of that time Jaime was the primary
investigator involved in the systemic reviews conducted by that office,
contributing to public reports including:
Hearing Back: Piecing Together
Timeliness in Saskatchewan's Administrative Tribunals; A Question of Fairness: A Review of the Assessment and Collection of
Overpayments in the Saskatchewan Assistance Program; A Matter of Time: An Investigation into the Management of Wait
Lists for Breast Cancer Treatment in Saskatchewan; Achieving the Right Balance: A Review of Saskatchewan's Conflict of
Interest Policy respecting the Provincial Public Service Sector; Taking
Care: An Ombudsman Investigation into
the Care Provided to Margaret Warholm while a Resident at the Santa Maria
Senior Citizens Home; and An
Investigation into a Complaint about the Sale of Land by the Village of Manor
and Allegations of Conflict of Interest against the Former Mayor. Jaime also co-wrote an article published in
the Saskatchewan Law Review titled "On the Road to Fairness: Redesigning Saskatchewan's Administrative
Tribunal System". In her last few
years with the office, Jaime was the investigator primarily responsible for any
investigations under The Public Interest Disclosure Act for Saskatchewan, which
is whistleblower legislation intended to provide a means for public servants to
report wrongdoings occuring within government, while also providing those public
servants with protection from reprisals for speaking out.
While at Ombudsman Saskatchewan, Jaime was also very
involved in providing training for the office.
In this capacity Jaime regularly facilitated workshops on the Fine Art
of Fairness and assisted the office in updating the training materials for this
workshop. In addition, Jaime did other
training for the office on investigations, providing procedural fairness, on
matters under the Public Interest Disclosure mandate, and on the cooperative model
of influence.
Jaime joined RRC Law in September of 2017 and is
practicing primarily in the areas of Aboriginal Law and Administrative
Law--including labour and employment law work, human rights disputes,
self-governing professions, immigration work and work with municipalities. Jaime is very excited to return to the
practice of law and to rejoin some fantastic colleagues.