Prime Minister Announces Senior Appointments
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien today announced the following appointments:
Biographical notes attached.
PMO Press Office: (613) 957-5555
Born: June 1943
Education:
- B.A., Economics, Queen's University
- Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University
Professional Experience:
August 1992 to Present
Deputy Minister of Finance then Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance (Distinguished Fellow at the University of British Columbia)
1989 - 1992
Associate Deputy Minister, Finance Canada
1984 - 1989
Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM), Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis; ADM, and then Senior ADM, Taxation Policy and Legislation, Finance Canada
1980 - 1984
Head, Labour Market Development Task Force; and then, ADM, Strategic Policy
and Planning, Employment and Immigration Canada
1977 - 1980
Professor, Economics, John Hopkins University (Washington); and then
Director of International Economics Program, Institute of Research on Public Policy
1976 - 1977
Director General, Economic Research, Anti-Inflation Board
1975 - 1976
Executive Director, Market and Industry Analysis, Central Mortgage and Housing
1972 - 1975
Senior Research Officer and then Chief, Quantitative Tax Analysis, Finance Canada
1968 - 1972
Assistant Professor of Economics, Queen's University
1966 - 1967
Research Officer, Department of Manpower and Immigration
Education:
- B.A., Université Laval
- B.A. (History), Université de Montréal
- M.Ed. (Adult Education), Université de Montréal
- M.A. (History), Université de Montréal
- L.L.D., Concordia University
Professional Experience:
June 1993 - Present
Deputy Minister of Health
1992 - 1993
Under-Secretary of State
1990 to 1992
Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Employment and Immigration
and Vice-Chairman, Canada Employment and Immigration Commission
1988 - 1990
Executive Director, Employment Services, then Executive Director, Employment, Department of Employment and Immigration
1984 - 1988
Assistant Deputy Minister and Director General (Vocational training), Department of Manpower and Security of Revenue, Government of Quebec
1983
Coordinator - Adult Education, Collège Bois-de-Boulogne (Montréal)
1982
Consultant, Institut international de la Planification de l'Éducation, Paris
1980 - 1982
Chairman, Royal Commission of Inquiry on Adult Education and Vocational Training (Commission Jean), Province of Quebec
1976 - 1980
Advisor for adult education, Collège Bois-de-Boulogne, Montréal
1957 - 1976
Journalist, then Freelance writer and part-time teacher
Date of birth: November 1947
Education:
- B.A. in History, University of Ottawa
- Studies towards an M.A. in History, University of Ottawa
Professional Experience
September 1996 to present
Associate Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
February 1996 - October 1996
Acting Deputy Secretary (Intergovernmental Operations), Privy Council Office
February 1995 - February 1996
Assistant Secretary (Intergovernmental Operations) Privy Council Office
August 1993 - February 1995
Assistant Secretary (Aboriginal Affairs) Privy Council Office
February 1991 - August 1993
Assistant Secretary, Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat, Federal-Provincial Relations Office
April 1989 - February 1991
Director General, Constitution, Legislation and Federal Provincial Relations, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
November 1985 - 1989
Senior Advisor, Policy Co-ordination, Office of Aboriginal Constitutional Affairs, Federal-Provincial Relations Office
1980 - 1985
Acting Senior Negotiator, Western Arctic, and subsequently Senior Negotiator, Western Arctic, Office of Native Claims, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
1978 - 1980
Assistant to the Special Representative for Northern Claims, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
1971 - 1978
Various positions with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs including the position of Acting Assistant Director, Claims Office, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
1969 - 1971
Student advisor and subsequently archivist, University of Ottawa
Date of birth: October 1951
Education:
- B.A., Economics and Political Science, McGill University, Montreal
- LL.L., Université de Montréal
- LL.M., Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Called to the Bar of Quebec in 1977
Professional Experience:
August 1996 to Present
Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations), Privy Council Office
July 1993 - August 1996
Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Economic and Regional Development, Privy Council Office
1990 - 1993
Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Affairs and Legislative Policy, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada
1988 - 1990
Senior General Counsel, Legal Services - Trade Law, Department of Justice
1987 - 1988
Senior General Counsel, Legal Services, Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Department of Justice
1986 - 1987
General Counsel, Legal Services, Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Department of Justice
1979 - 1986
Counsel, Legal Services, Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Department of Justice
1977 - 1978
Associate, Mendelsohn, Rosentzveig, Shacter, Montreal
Date of birth: August 1941
Education:
- B.A. (Philosophy and English), Queen's University
- LL.B., Queen's University
- LL.M., University of California
Professional Experience
October 1994 to Present
Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada
1992 to 1994
Deputy Attorney General of Ontario
1989 - 1992
Deputy Minister of Labour, Province of Ontario
1989
Deputy Minister of Citizenship, Province of Ontario
1982 - 1989
Returned to the bench until 1985
Director of Education for the Law Society of Upper Canada (1985)
Chaired a provincial committee on social welfare reform
1977 - 1982
Associate Deputy Minister of Community and Social Services, Province of Ontario
1972 - 1977
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court for the Province of Ontario
1970 - 1971
Assistant Dean of the Law School, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
1968 - 1971
Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario (Promotion to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 1971), London, Ontario
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