Companion of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 21, 1992
• Invested on: April 21, 1993

Educated as a lawyer and a career civil servant, he has devoted a quarter of a century to serving Canada. He was consecutively executive director of the Public Service Commission, deputy minister of two important portfolios, Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, as well as Deputy Secretary to Cabinet in the Federal-Provincial Relations Office. He was recently appointed president and chief executive officer of Canadian National.