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Roundtable Luncheon with the Hon. Christiane Fox, Ryan Manucha and Corinne Pohlmann.
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The Honourable Christiane Fox, Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet and Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
Christiane Fox was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet, effective January 27, 2024. As of October 21, 2024, she is concurrently serving as the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Prior to her appointment as Deputy Clerk, Christiane held several deputy minister roles across the public service. She was the Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada from July 2022 to January 2024, the Deputy Minister of Indigenous Services Canada from September 2020 to July 2022, the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs from November 2019 to September 2020, and the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth from June 2017 to November 2019. She is also the Deputy Minister Champion of the Federal Youth Network.
Christiane has also held several positions at the Privy Council Office, including Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Communications and Consultations; Director of Operations, Policy, in the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Relations Secretariat; and Director General of Communications.
Christiane started her career as a communications advisor at Industry Canada (now Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), where she worked in communications and in science policy. She also spent a year with the Competition Policy Review Secretariat as Director of Communications and Consultations.
Christiane has a B.A. in Mass Communications and Psychology from Carleton University and is a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s Master’s Certificate Program in Public Administration.
Ryan Manucha, Interprovincial Trade Researcher, Research Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
A leading expert on interprovincial trade in Canada and a C.D. Howe Research Fellow, Ryan Manucha is frequently called upon to advise governments and agencies, and his work has appeared in prominent Canadian peer-reviewed legal journals and national newspapers. His book on the subject won the Donner Prize for best in Canadian public policy and writing, and was a finalist for the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.
Corinne Pohlmann, Executive Vice-President, Advocacy, Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)
Corinne Pohlmann is Executive Vice President, Advocacy for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), a not-for-profit organization representing 100,000 small and medium-sized businesses across Canada. Corinne is based in Ottawa and is responsible for overseeing all of CFIB’s legislative, research and communications teams across Canada.
Since joining the Federation in 1998, Corinne first worked in research, where she authored several research reports on a variety of public policy and economic issues. In 2000, Corinne became CFIB’s Director of Provincial Affairs based in Edmonton where she represented the interests of Alberta and NWT members to all levels of government and in 2006 she relocated to Ottawa to take on federal issues later expanding her responsibilities to other areas of the federation including Business Resources and Partnerships. In June of 2023, Corinne was promoted to her current role as CFIB’s Executive VP for Advocacy.
Throughout her career, Corinne participated in numerous national consultations and committees on a wide variety of small business issues, including the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Underground Economy, the Advisory Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, as well as the Deputy Minister Advisory Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
Corinne was born and raised in Montreal where she attended McGill University - graduating with both a Bachelor and a Masters Degree in Geography.
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