Mel Cappe
Clerk of the Privy Council
and Secretary to the Cabinet
January 18, 1999 to May 12, 2002
Mr. Cappe was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet by the Prime Minister on January 18, 1999.
Mr. Cappe joined the Public Service of Canada in 1975 and held economic and policy positions in the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Department of Finance before joining Consumer and Corporate Affairs as Deputy Director of Investigation and Research in 1982. He later held the positions of Assistant Deputy Minister, Competition Policy; Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy Co-ordination, and Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Affairs and Legislative Policy in that department. He returned to the Treasury Board Secretariat in January 1990 as Senior Assistant Secretary and was appointed Deputy Secretary, Program Branch, in April 1990. Mr. Cappe was appointed Deputy Minister of Environment Canada on May 9, 1994. He became Deputy Minister, Human Resources Development Canada and concurrently Chairperson, Canada Employment Insurance Commission and Deputy Minister of Labour on July 2, 1996.
Born in 1948, Mr. Cappe has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and did doctoral work at the University of Toronto.