The federal agriculture department’s communications chief for Quebec will take over as Quebec’s associate deputy agriculture minister in the new year.
Dominique Fortin, currently the regional communications manager for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Quebec City, was named Monday as one of the senior provincial bureaucrats in the provincial ag, food and fisheries ministry (MAPAQ) under Agriculture Minister Claude Bechard.
Fortin’s appointment takes effect Jan. 25, the province said in a release.
Other senior managers named Monday in the provincial ag department include Claude Lavoie and Ernest Desrosiers, reappointed and newly appointed respectively as vice-presidents at the provincial ag lending agency, la Financiere agricole de Quebec.
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Desrosiers, whose appointment also takes effect Jan. 25, was previously also an associate deputy minister at MAPAQ and director-general of the ministry’s Transformation Alimentaire Quebec (Transaq), a provincial service agency for the food processing sector.
Two new members were also named Monday to the province’s Commission de protection du territoire agricole, its farmland protection commission. Anne Couture becomes a member and vice-president of the commission effective Jan. 18, while Ghislain Girard, a commission member since 1997, was reappointed.
Couture is currently the province’s deputy attorney general in charge of criminal prosecutions.
