Chantal Bernier was the interim

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from 2013 to 2014. Prior to her position, Bernier joined the

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in 1978 before starting her Canadian government experience in the early 1990s. During the early to late 1990s, she was an advisor for the

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and

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. She also briefly worked as an operations director for the Privy Council Office in the late 1990s. In the 2000s, Bernier held assistant deputy minister positrons with

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and

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. Upon joining the

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in 2008, Bernier started out as an assistant privacy commissioner before holding her interim position. After ending her government tenure in 2014, Bernier became a privacy counsel for

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in 2014. she was awarded the

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in 2012.

Education

Bernier graduated from a law program at the

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in 1977 and a

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at the

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in 1980.

Career

Bernier began her career at the

in 1978. Outside of law, she was an advisor for the

from 1993 to 1996 and the

from 1996 to 1998. After briefly working at the Privy Council Office as an operations director for a year, Bernier was an assistant deputy minister for the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada until 2002. She continued working as an assistant deputy minister for

until 2008. Bernier began her career with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as an assistant privacy commissioner in November 2008. During her time with the Privacy Commission, she became the interim

in the end of 2013 after

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left her position. Bernier was replaced by

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as the Privacy Commissioner in May 2014. After her tenure as interim Privacy Commissioner ended, Bernier joined the law firm

as a privacy counsel in October 2014.

Awards and honours

Bernier was awarded the

in 2012.

References

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