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Douglas Ruck is a lawyer with extensive experience in the fields of labour and employment law, human rights, civil litigation, and administrative law. He was the first full-time chairperson of the Unified Nova Scotia Labour Board, and formerly served as the vice-chair of the Canada Industrial Relations Board, Nova Scotia Labour Standards Tribunal, Labour Relations Board, and Board of Inquiry for the Human Rights Commission. Douglas is also the former chairperson of the Labour Standards Tribunal, Civil Service Employee Relations Board, and Public Sector Compensation Board, and was the managing partner for the private law practice of Ruck & Mitchell.
Douglas has lectured and presented workshops and seminars at the provincial, national, and international level on a variety of topics in labour and employment law, human rights, and more. As well, as Nova Scotia’s former Ombudsman, Douglas was instrumental in the creation of Nova Scotia’s Children’s Ombudsman and was the founding director of the Canadian Ombudsman Association.
As part of his father’s legacy, the late Senator C.W. Ruck, he continues to promote the memory and significance of the No. 2 Construction Battalion. Canada’s first and only all-black Battalion. The story of the Battalion and its place in Canadian history may have been lost if not for the book written by his father in 1987 The Black Battalion 1916-1920: Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret.
He is the Honourary Colonel for the Princess Louise Fusiliers.