Jocelyne Bourgon
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The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon PC OC |
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| President of the Canadian Centre for Management Development | |
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In office 1999–2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean Chrétien |
| Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet | |
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In office March 28, 1994 – January 17, 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Glen Shortliffe |
| Succeeded by | Mel Cappe |
| Deputy Minister of Transport | |
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In office 1993–1994 |
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| Minister |
Jean Corbeil Doug Young |
| Preceded by | Huguette Labelle |
| Succeeded by | Bill Rowat |
| President of the Canadian International Development Agency | |
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In office 1993 |
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| Minister | Monique Landry |
| Preceded by | Marcel Massé |
| Succeeded by | Huguette Labelle |
| Secretary to the Cabinet for Federal-Provincial Relations | |
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In office 1992–1993 |
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| Prime Minister | Brian Mulroney |
| Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs | |
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In office 1989–1991 |
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| Minister |
Pierre Blais (acting) Pierre H. Vincent |
| Preceded by | Ian D. Clark |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Hughes Anthony |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 20, 1950 Papineauville, Quebec |
| Alma mater |
Université de Montréal University of Ottawa |
Jocelyne Bourgon, PC OC was a Canadian public servant. She was the first woman appointed as the Clerk of the Privy Council, serving from 1994 until 1999.
Born in Papineauville, Quebec, she studied in science (Biology) at the University of Montreal and then management at the University of Ottawa. She joined the public service of Canada as a summer student with the Department of Transport in 1974. She was rapidly promoted to the level of Deputy Minister. She served in several Departments including Consumer and Corporate Affairs (Industry), Cabinet Secretary for Federal-Provincial Relations, President of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and Transport Canada.
As Deputy Minister she led major legislative reforms; organized a First Ministers Conference on Canada-USA free trade negotiations; led the Constitutional negotiations; and prepared a major reform leading to the privatization of rail and airports.
In 1994, she was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Canadian Cabinet becoming the first woman to exercise these functions in Canada. To date, woman has exercised an equivalent position (Secretary General of the Government) in any of the other G-7 countries. In this capacity she led some of the most ambitious public sector reforms in Canada since the early 1940s. She oversaw the reduction of the public service by 47,000 positions and introduced measures to enhance the policy capacity and the renewal of the Public Service (La Releve).
Bourgon served as President of the Canadian Centre for Management Development from 1999 to 2003 leading to the creation of the Canada School of Public Service where she was named President emeritus. She served as Ambassador to the OECD until 2007. She is Distinguished Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and visiting professor at the University of Waterloo where she is conducting several research projects to advance good governance and the field of public administration. She is advising several countries about public service reforms, most recently France, UK, Ireland, Brazil etc.
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