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Prime Minister Announces Senior Appointments


June 5, 1998
Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien today announced the following appointments:

  • David Dodge as Deputy Minister of Health. Mr. Dodge previously served as Deputy Minister of Finance, and has, most recently, been on sabbatical as a Distinguished Fellow at the University of British Columbia. His appointment is effective July 1, 1998.

  • Michèle S. Jean, currently Deputy Minister of Health, becomes Special Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and will be taking on an assignment at the European Commission in Brussels, where she will examine health issues of interest to Canada and the European Union. She will also work on health policies with the Council of Europe. Her appointment is effective July 1, 1998.

  • Morris Rosenberg, currently Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations), Privy Council Office, becomes Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada. His appointment is effective July 1, 1998.

  • George Thomson, currently Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, becomes Special Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and will be pursuing a Skelton-Clark Fellowship at Queen's University. During this time, Mr. Thomson will also support the Minister by carrying out special projects for the Department of Justice. His appointment is effective July 1, 1998.

  • Marc Lafrenière, currently Associate Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, becomes the Executive Director of the Canada Information Office. Mr. Lafrenière will report to the Honourable Alfonso Gagliano in his capacity as Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee of Cabinet on Government Communications, to whom responsibility for the Canada Information Office has been transferred. Mr. Lafrenière's appointment is effective July 27, 1998.
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    Biographical notes attached.

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    DAVID A. DODGE

    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

    MICHELE JEAN
    Date of Birth: January 1937

    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

    MARC P. LAFRENIERE

    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

    MORRIS ROSENBERG

    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

    GEORGE THOMSON

    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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