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Ministry of Red Tape Reduction, Government of Ontario

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|Rakhi Lad was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister in October 2022. Previously, she held various roles in the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade the including Director of Strategic Industry Intelligence Branch, Director of Trade and Investment Branch, and Director of Trade Strategy, Analytics and Partnership Branch. Across these leadership roles, she led strategic policy development, trade and investment initiatives, and industry intelligence efforts.

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|Rakhi Lad was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister in October 2022. Previously, she held various roles in the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade the including Director of Strategic Industry Intelligence Branch, Director of Trade and Investment Branch, and Director of Trade Strategy, Analytics and Partnership Branch. Across these leadership roles, she led strategic policy development, trade and investment initiatives, and industry intelligence efforts.

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|Kassandra (Kasi) McMicking is the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for the Strategic Policy Sector (SPS) at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).

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Prior to joining ISED as ADM SPS in April 2023, Kasi held various senior roles across the Government of Canada, including as ISED’s Director General, Aerospace, Defence and Marine, and as Executive Director, Industrial Division, Treasury Board Secretariat. She has also held senior roles at the Treasury Board Secretariat Regulatory Affairs, the Privy Council Office, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Health Canada, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. In these roles she has spanned a wide variety of fields, including policy, program, regulation, communications, federal-provincial-territorial and Indigenous relations, and departmental liaison.

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Prior to joining ISED as ADM SPS in April 2023, Kasi held various senior roles across the Government of Canada, including as ISED’s Director General, Aerospace, Defence and Marine, and as Executive Director, Industrial Division, Treasury Board Secretariat. She has also held senior roles at the Treasury Board Secretariat Regulatory Affairs, the Privy Council Office, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Health Canada, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. In these roles she has spanned a wide variety of fields, including policy, program, regulation, communications, federal-provincial-territorial and Indigenous relations, and departmental liaison.

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Kasi hails from rural New Brunswick, and earned her BA (Honours) in Political Science from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is the proud spouse of a CAF member (retired), stepmother of a York University student, and serves at the pleasure of her three rescued pets. She volunteers time mentoring public servants, and on various animal welfare causes.

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Kasi hails from rural New Brunswick, and earned her BA (Honours) in Political Science from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is the proud spouse of a CAF member (retired), stepmother of a York University student, and serves at the pleasure of her three rescued pets. She volunteers time mentoring public servants, and on various animal welfare causes.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

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|Megan Nichols was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environmental Protection Branch (EPB) as of July 22, 2024, and previously, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister as of January 10, 2023. She joined ECCC from Transport Canada, where she spent four years, first as the Director General of Environmental Policy, and then as Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy.

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|Megan Nichols was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environmental Protection Branch (EPB) as of July 22, 2024, and previously, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister as of January 10, 2023. She joined ECCC from Transport Canada, where she spent four years, first as the Director General of Environmental Policy, and then as Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy.

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Prior to her time at Transport Canada, Megan was Director General in the Lands and Minerals Sector at Natural Resources Canada, with responsibility for the leadership of Canada’s mining policy. From 2012-2017, Megan held a number of positions at Public Safety Canada, focused mainly on international and Canada-U.S. border and security issues. Megan spent six years designing and managing public infrastructure funding programs at Infrastructure Canada. From 1999 to 2004, she worked in the Canadian Heritage portfolio, where she developed international cultural policy initiatives, delivered programming for the Canada Council of the Arts, and supported the department’s portfolio management and corporate secretariat functions. Megan holds a master’s degree in history from Queen’s University. She lives in Chelsea, Quebec with her family and is an avid hiker, canoeist and cross-country skier.

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Prior to her time at Transport Canada, Megan was Director General in the Lands and Minerals Sector at Natural Resources Canada, with responsibility for the leadership of Canada’s mining policy. From 2012-2017, Megan held a number of positions at Public Safety Canada, focused mainly on international and Canada-U.S. border and security issues. Megan spent six years designing and managing public infrastructure funding programs at Infrastructure Canada. From 1999 to 2004, she worked in the Canadian Heritage portfolio, where she developed international cultural policy initiatives, delivered programming for the Canada Council of the Arts, and supported the department’s portfolio management and corporate secretariat functions. Megan holds a master’s degree in history from Queen’s University. She lives in Chelsea, Quebec with her family and is an avid hiker, canoeist and cross-country skier.

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Deborah Quaicoe is the Director of Regulatory Efficiency at the Major Projects Office (MPO), where she leads the Government of Canada’s commitment to complete federal reviews and decision-making for major projects within a two-year timeframe. Prior to joining MPO, Deborah was a Director in the Clean Growth Office at the Privy Council Office, where she advanced implementation of the Cabinet Directive on Regulatory and Permitting Efficiencies for Clean Growth Projects. She also led Indigenous consultations for Bill C-5 (''Building Canada Act'') and played a key role in establishing the Major Projects Office.

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Deborah is originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a diploma in Paralegal Studies from Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario. Since joining the federal public service in 2007, she has held progressively senior roles, including paralegal at the Department of Justice, negotiator with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, and Director of Indigenous Partnerships at the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, before moving to the Privy Council Office.

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Deborah is originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a diploma in Paralegal Studies from Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario. Since joining the federal public service in 2007, she has held progressively senior roles, including paralegal at the Department of Justice, negotiator with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, and Director of Indigenous Partnerships at the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, before moving to the Privy Council Office.

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