TORONTO, January 29, 2002 -- Canada’s highest-ranking civil servant, Mel Cappe, clerk of the Privy Council, will give a public lecture on Friday, Feb. 1 on career opportunities in the public service. The event will take place at 11 a.m. in the Senate Chamber of York Hall, York University’s Glendon College campus, 2275 Bayview Ave.
The issue of recruitment is critical for the federal government, which plans to hire at least 9,000 civil servants in each of the next 10 years. According to a recent report by the Auditor General of Canada, more than 70 per cent of executive employees in the public service are expected to retire in the next 10 years. Moreover, youth remain underrepresented; the proportion of public servants under the age of 35 is half that of the labour force overall.
In response to these demands, the departments of political science and economics at Glendon College recently launched a bilingual certificate in public policy and public administration, which includes a paid internship in the civil service.
Cappe was appointed clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to the cabinet in 1999. He 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. Cappe was appointed deputy minister of Environment Canada in May 1994. He became deputy minister, Human Resources Development Canada and concurrently chairperson, Canada Employment Insurance Commission and deputy minister of labour in July 1996. Born in 1948, Cappe has an MA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and did doctoral work at the University of Toronto.
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