{{Short description|Canadian civil servant and diplomat}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Mel Cappe | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|size=100%}} | image = | image_size = | office1 = Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | prime_minister1 = Jean Chrétien,<br>Paul Martin,<br>Stephen Harper | term_start1 = 2002 | term_end1 = 2006 | predecessor1 = Jeremy Kinsman | successor1 = James R. Wright | office2 = Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet | term_start2 = January 18, 1999 | term_end2 = May 12, 2002 | prime_minister2 = Jean Chrétien | predecessor2 = Jocelyne Bourgon | successor2 = Alex Himelfarb | office3 = Deputy Minister of Human Resources Development | term_start3 = July 12, 1996 | term_end3 = January 17, 1999 | minister3 = Doug Young<br />Pierre Pettigrew | predecessor3 = ''new office'' | successor3 = Claire Morris | office4 = Deputy Minister of Labour | term_start4 = July 12, 1996 | term_end4 = January 17, 1999 | minister4 = Alfonso Gagliano<br />Lawrence MacAulay<br />Claudette Bradshaw | predecessor4 = ''new office'' | successor4 = Claire Morris | office5 = Deputy Minister of the Environment | term_start5 = May 9, 1994 | term_end5 = July 11, 1996 | minister5 = Sheila Copps<br />Sergio Marchi | predecessor5 = Nick Mulder | successor5 = Ian Glen | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|12|3}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = New College, Toronto<br />University of Western Ontario | occupation = | profession = }} '''Melvin Samuel Cappe''', {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (born December 3, 1948) is a retired Canadian civil servant and diplomat. From 2006 to 2011 he was the President and CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) in Montreal, Quebec. He was most recently Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He had served in Canada's government since 1975 as a deputy minister of Environment Canada, Human Resources Development and Labour, as well as Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Federal Cabinet.
== Biography == Born in Toronto, Ontario, Cappe received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1971 from New College, University of Toronto and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario. He served as the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2006.
He is married to Marni and has two grown children, Danny and Emily.
In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the federal public service, notably as a deputy minister, and as clerk of the Privy Council and as secretary to the Cabinet".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469|title=Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada|work=Office of the Secretary to the Governor General|accessdate=2009-12-30|date=December 30, 2009}}</ref>
He is currently a professor at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance where he teaches the capstone course and seminars on the role of government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publicpolicy.utoronto.ca/mel-cappe/|title=Mel Cappe Bio|work=Professor|accessdate=2015-01-13|date=January 15, 2015}}</ref>
==References== * [http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=campeau&t=46939&d=1300 Entry in Canada's Who's Who] * [http://www.international.gc.ca/department/history-histoire/hplPeople-en.asp?lan=1 Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Complete List of Posts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005081341/http://www.international.gc.ca/department/history-histoire/hplPeople-en.asp?lan=1 |date=2013-10-05 }} {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060905135339/http://www.cerium.ca/article944.html#8 What ever happened to Cool Britannia? Ambassador Cappe's analysis of Tony Blair's reelection in May 2005]
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