Roda Muse, current Secretary General of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, will be Ontario’s next Deputy Minister of Francophone Affairs. She will take office on 1er May, replacing Marie-Lison Fougère, a Quebec native who announced her retirement from the Ontario public service in January.
The news was announced on March 23 by Cabinet Secretary Michelle E. DiEmanuele. “Roda is a seasoned leader who has increased cultural diversity and promoted economic opportunity for racialized Francophone youth,” the secretary wrote in an internal memo. The duty got a copy.
A native of Djibouti, Roda Muse has an impressive track record in the Franco-Ontarian community. She was notably in charge of the economic development of official language minority communities at the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development of Canada. She was also a school trustee and vice-president of the Conseil des écoles publiques de langue française de l’est de l’Ontario.
Roda Muse will not manage the Social and Economic Perspectives for Women portfolio as Marie-Lison Fougère did. Between April 1 and April 30, the position of Deputy Minister of Francophone Affairs will be filled on an interim basis by Alexandra Sutton, currently Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. The latter studied at the University of Lyon and is bilingual.
This story is supported by the Local Journalism Initiative, funded by the Government of Canada.
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