The department welcomes a new Minister, the Honorable Marcel Masse.

 Mr. Masse has wide experience in government, industry and the education field. He holds a degree in teaching and psychology from the École normale Jacques-Cartier, has studied at the University of Montreal, the Institut des sciences politiques in Pans, the Sorbonne, the City of London College and the European Institute of Business Administration in Fontainebleau, and has taught ancient history in Quebec.

From 1966 to 1973, Mr. Masse sat in the Quebec National Assembly, and held a number of ministerial portfolios for the Government of Quebec: Minister of State for Education, Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of Planning and Develop­ment, Minister responsible for the Public Service, and Minister delegated to receive 'foreign heads of state at Expo'67.

With the engineering firm, Lavalin, of Montreal, he was project director for the United Nations Development Program, vice­president of marketing and commercial development, and a director of the company since 1974.

Mr. Masse is active in community affairs, as director of organizations such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Cana­dian Writers' Foundation, Katimavik, the Canadian Refugee Foundation, and the Lanaudière Summer Festival.

The Minister expects to meet with DOC employees soon, beginning with those at headquarters and the CRC, and then trav­elling to the regional and district offices.