Lawyer-businessman Rodolfo D. Robles was nominated by President Rodrigo R. Duterte to be the Philippine Ambassador to Canada on February 21, 2020.

The nomination was approved and confirmed by the Commission on Appointments just 18 days later, on March 11. The nominee, after all, had the impeccable credentials the country would want any of its official envoys to have. The San Beda Law alumnus topped the bar examinations of 1967. He was Quezon Province's representative to the 1971 Constitutional Convention. He authored the Miranda Doctrine on the Constitutional Rights of the Accused and the creation of the Office of the Ombudsman. In 1974, he was named one of the country's Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) in the legal practice.