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David Miller left the federal pubic service in 2004 with over 35 years of experience, most of which related to the financial management function in both operational departments and the Treasury Board Secretariat.
He was the Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management at TBS during the 3 years of Program Review implementation but, in his last permanent position (1997-2004), he switched to an operational role as the Assistant Commissioner of Assessment and Collections for the Canada Revenue Agency. As such, he was responsible for most aspects of tax administration and income related benefits, including some of the government’s largest system development and change management projects.
Since leaving the government, he has worked for the International Monetary Fund in providing assistance to developing countries such as Indonesia and Macedonia, completed various contracts with federal departments on project and program evaluation as well as resource reviews and temporarily filled key financial positions during periods of transition in a number of departments such as Agriculture, Health, Finance and Industry Canada.
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Mike Joyce is the MPA Program Director as well as an adjunct professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. Mike came to the School on an interchange with the Canadian federal government’s Treasury Board Secretariat where he was Assistant Secretary (Assistant Deputy Minister) responsible for the Secretariat’s Expenditure Management Sector. At Queen’s Mike teaches courses on government expenditure management and budgeting in the Masters of Public Administration program. As well, he is a co-instructor for that program’s core course, Management in the Public Sector.
As Assistant Secretary, Mike was directly responsible for the expenditure management role played by the Treasury Board Secretariat and he played a lead role in developing and implementing a number of the Secretariat’s expenditure management initiatives. As well, he served as the Secretariat’s representative on the OECD’s Senior Budget Officials Working Group. His previous experience in the Secretariat included three years as Director of Estimates and a number of Program Sector Director positions covering Citizenship, Immigration, Justice, Cultural, Aboriginal and Crown corporation portfolios.
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Michel Auger started his career at the Trois-Rivières daily newspaper “Le Nouvelliste” in 1964, then continued at “Métro-Express” and at CKVL radio station. When he moved to Montreal, it was to work for the “Montréal-Matin” newspaper.
From 1968 to 1979, he was reporter at “La Presse”. He then became deputy producer for the Public Information TV show “The Fifth Estate” for CBC from 1979 to 1984.
From 1984, he was reporter for the “Journal de Montréal”, covering the underworld news, mostly Hell's Angels and Mafia. On 13 September 2000, he is the target of an attempted murder in broad daylight in the street in Montreal. While having been shot six times, he survived and became a symbol of the fight against organized crime, and defender of free speech.
He received the Free Speech Award in 2000 from the International Francophone Press Union (UPF) for having “in a difficult environment, preserve his independence notwithstanding attacks against him.” In Canada and abroad, he is considered as one of the best criminal reporter of Canada.
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Charles-Antoine St-Jean is the National partner for Public Sector in Canada for Ernst & Young and member of the Global Public Sector Council for Ernst & Young. He is currently advising many clients at the federal and provincial levels in Canada and abroad on public sector issues of governance and risk management, and helping develop the global public sector capabilities of Ernst & Young.
Prior to rejoining Ernst & Young in the fall of 2007, he served as the Comptroller General of Canada for 3 years where he led the rethinking of the Finance and Internal Audit Functions. He dealt with all financial management issues that the national government deals with, ranging from fiscal management issues, control frameworks of large programs, capacity constraints, risk management, standards settings and many more.
Prior to serving in the federal public sector, he worked with Ernst & Young and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as partner and vice-president, and earlier on in various capacities, in Canada and abroad for close to 30 years. Over the years, he worked with clients in the public sector, not-for profit, technology, telecommunications and banking sectors. During that period, he was also seconded twice to federal Crown Corporations to work in a financial management capacity.
He received his FCA designation from the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2006. L'Ordre des Comptables Agréés du Quebec granted him the same honor earlier this year . The UK Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy recently awarded him the honorary designation of CIPFA for his body of work for advancing the cause of financial management in the public sector. Last year, the FMI named him a life-time honorary member of the Institute.
Basia Ruta, CA, Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance and Corporate Branch, Environment Canada
Since January 2006, Ms. Basia Ruta has assumed the position of Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance and Corporate Branch for Environment Canada (EC). As part of her role, she is EC’s Chief Financial Officer and the single point of accountability for the financial management of the Department ─ an over billion dollar-a-year funded organization. In addition, Ms. Ruta is responsible for ensuring proper stewardship over assets, contracting and EC’s environmental management as well as for programs and processes supporting the department’s governance, values and ethics regimes.
Ms. Ruta was appointed Assistant Comptroller General in December 2004. Among her key achievements was developing a new Policy on Internal Audit that is viewed as transforming internal audit across government, and leading edge for governments world-wide.
Ms. Ruta obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree (B.Comm.), Honours (Spec. Accounting) from the University of Ottawa. She is also a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants, and has over 26 years of notable business experience.
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Since January 2006, Ms. Basia Ruta has assumed the position of Assistant Deputy Minister, Finance and Corporate Branch for Environment Canada (EC). As part of her role, she is EC’s Chief Financial Officer and the single point of accountability for the financial management of the Department ─ an over billion dollar-a-year funded organization. In addition, Ms. Ruta is responsible for ensuring proper stewardship over assets, contracting and EC’s environmental management as well as for programs and processes supporting the department’s governance, values and ethics regimes.
Ms. Ruta was appointed Assistant Comptroller General in December 2004. Among her key achievements was developing a new Policy on Internal Audit that is viewed as transforming internal audit across government, and leading edge for governments world-wide.
Ms. Ruta obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree (B.Comm.), Honours (Spec. Accounting) from the University of Ottawa. She is also a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants, and has over 26 years of notable business experience.
Sylvain Michaud, Executive Director, Internal Audit Sector, Office of the Comptroller General
Sylvain Michaud is the Executive Director of Operational Auditing at the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. As Executive Director, he is responsible for providing functional leadership and direction for horizontal audits led by the OCG.
Sylvain joined the Government of Canada in 2001 as Director, Internal Audit, at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In his position as Director, Sylvain oversaw the development and implementation of a multi-year audit plan. In 2008, Sylvain became the Chief Audit Executive for Public Safety Canada where he established an internal audit function.
Prior to joining the Government of Canada, Sylvain worked as an external auditor and a consultant in the field of risk management for various accounting firms in Ottawa, and as a manager in Internal Audit for the Bank of Canada.
Sylvain holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Ottawa. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor.
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Mark Huard graduated from the Laval University (Québec City, Canada) in 1981 and is a Certified General Accountant (CGA) of Canada. Mark has more than 28 years of services in the Canadian Federal Government and has held many positions, in multiple departments and agencies. He currently holds the position of Director, Financial Business Processes and Renewal at the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada. Mark has also devoted many years of voluntary work with the Financial Management Institute of Canada and was the National President for 2007-2008.
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John Morgan joined the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) in 1999 as the Director - Government Accounting Policy Division with responsibility for the federal government’s accounting policies and its audited financial statements. He was appointed Executive Director - Financial Management and Accounting Policy Directorate in 2001 and Assistant Comptroller General of Canada in 2006 with responsibility for government-wide financial management, accounting, user charging and grant and contribution policies.
Mr. Morgan oversaw the successful implementation of full accrual accounting within the federal government and commenced a ten year legacy of unqualified audit opinions on its financial statements. John accepted a pre-retirement advisory position within the OCG in April 2009 and is assisting in various initiatives. Along with the Financial Management Service of the US Department of Treasury, John co-chairs an annual International Colloquium on Financial Management for National Governments. He participates in the development of accounting standards in Canada and is currently chairing a task force of the Public Sector Accounting Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
He joined TBS with 20 years experience from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation where he held a number of senior positions in the areas of finance, treasury, pensions and internal audit. He obtained his B. Commerce (Honours) at Queens University in 1976 and his Chartered Accountant designation in 1978 while working with Coopers & Lybrand.
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An experienced financial professional, Alfred Tsang joined Health Canada as the Chief Financial Officer on September 10, 2007. He leads the departmental focal point of accountability to ensure rigorous stewardship of resources and managing for results, and is responsible for providing the Minister, Deputy Minister, Associate Deputy Minister and the Departmental Executive with strategic advice on efficiency of expenditures and value-for-money, as well as anticipating and promoting future trends. He is also a key member of Health Canada's Senior Management Board and the lead executive with Central Agencies for overall financial management, with a functional reporting relationship to the Comptroller General of Canada.
Prior to his appointment at Health Canada, Alfred was the Assistant Director, Finance and Administration with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), where he provided corporate leadership and functional direction and advice on financial, material management, facilities management and corporate governance matters. Prior to that, he held progressively senior financial positions in a number of government departments and agencies, including the Departments of Public Safety, Industry, and Public Works and Government Services. His broad federal government experience also includes serving as a Program Director in the Treasury Board Secretariat from 2001 to 2003.
Alfred holds a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Carleton University and is a Certified Management Accountant.
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Tom Wappel, a lawyer, was the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Riding of Scarborough Southwest ( located in the Greater Toronto area) from 1988-2008, when he retired. He was elected in six straight federal elections. He is the only Member of Parliament in the history of the Riding who has ever been elected for more than one term consecutively. During his twenty years as a Parliamentarian, Tom served on many Committees and Sub-Committees and was the Chairman of three: The Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, The Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, and the Joint House of Commons and Senate Standing Committee on the Scrutiny of Regulations. Tom was the first Chairman of a House of Commons Standing Committee to be elected by his peers on the Committee, by secret ballot, as contrasted with the usual method of being appointed by the Prime Minister of the day. This occurred during the heady days when Paul Martin (later Prime Minister) and others began to try to reduce the perceived "democratic deficit" in the House of Commons.
Currently, Tom practices corporate law, with a focus on medical and dental practitioners, and charitable institutions. He provides political and parliamentary advice and counsel to individuals and corporations. He is a guest lecturer at the Canada School of Public Service, and at universities and high schools in the Toronto and Ottawa areas. He continues to pursue his long held interest in nutritional food labelling and related health issues.
James R. Mitchell, Partner, Sussex Circle
External Audit Committee member to several government departments
James Mitchell is a founding partner of the policy consulting firm Sussex Circle. He has many years of experience in the analysis and resolution of complex public policy issues and in dealing with Ministers and senior government officials.
After several years as a university lecturer, Mr. Mitchell began his government career in the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1978 before moving to the Privy Council Office in 1983. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Board from 1989 to 1991, where among other things he was responsible for the government's Employment Equity Program.
From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Mitchell held the position of Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Machinery of Government), in which capacity he was responsible for providing advice to successive Secretaries to the Cabinet and Prime Ministers on matters related to the organization of government, the reform and renewal of the Public Service, and a host of other issues related to governance and change in Canada. He was a principal advisor on the 1993 reorganization of the federal government.
Mr. Mitchell has provided policy and organizational advice in virtually every area of federal responsibility including foreign policy, defence, science, agriculture, transportation, employment, criminal justice, aboriginal issues, information technology and globalization, organizational renewal, the privatization of government functions, public sector reform, and the renewal and operation of central agencies.
A native of British Columbia, Mr. Mitchell holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Colorado. He is married and has two children.
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Tim Leech has been widely recognized as a global thought leader in the areas of enterprise risk and assurance management, governance, risk and compliance ("GRC"), internal audit re-engineering and transformation, cost effective approaches to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, anti-money laundering, foreign corrupt practices act compliance, and officer and director risk and control oversight. He has received awards for outstanding contributions to the profession from the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. His current goal is to change the way the world thinks about assurance.
Tim Leech’s specialties include:
- assessment of enterprise risk processes;
- assessment of the effectiveness of internal audit functions;
- enterprise fraud risk assessments;
- expert witness opinions in cases related to officer and director due diligence;
- anti-money laundering awareness and compliance reviews;
- foreign corrupt practices act awareness training; and,
- compliance assessments.