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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.
PMO Press Office: (613) 957-5555
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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