Morris Rosenberg CM |
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
Assumed office June 4, 2010 |
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Minister |
Lawrence Cannon John Baird |
Preceded by | Leonard J. Edwards |
Deputy Minister of Health | |
In office December 2004 – June 2010 |
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Minister |
Ujjal Dosanjh Tony Clement Leona Aglukkaq |
Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General | |
In office July 1998 – December 2004 |
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Minister |
Anne McLellan Martin Cauchon Irwin Cotler |
Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations) | |
In office 1996–1998 |
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Personal details | |
Residence | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater |
McGill University Université de Montréal Harvard University |
Occupation | Lawyer, civil servant |
Morris Rosenberg CM is a Canadian lawyer and senior civil servant with the government of Canada. He formerly served as deputy minister of foreign affairs. He currently serves as President of the Trudeau Foundation.
Rosenberg received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, a Bachelor of Civil Law from the Université de Montréal and a Master of Laws from Harvard University. He has worked for the federal civil service since 1979. He has held the rank of deputy minister since 1996 when he joined the Privy Council Office with responsibility for government operations. He served as deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general from 1998 to 2004, and deputy minister of health from 2004 to 2010. He became deputy minister of foreign affairs in June 2010 replacing Len Edwards.
In March 2011, Rosenberg represented the Canadian government at a meeting on the 2011 military intervention in Libya respecting the political convention that cabinet ministers do not participate in international events during an election campaign. In 2015, in recognition for his public work to the country, he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada. He currently resides in Ottawa.