Three directors named to National Farm Products Council

Brian Douglas begins a four-year term as the newly- appointed Chair of the Farm Products Council of Canada, which oversees national supply-management agencies for poultry and several commodity agencies for research and promotion.

Yvon Cyr joins the Council for a four-year term, effective immediately; and Maryse Dubé returns for her second three-year term, which began on April 30.

Douglas is a graduate of the University of Guelph and has been a public servant for more than 3 years.

From 2015 to 2016, Douglas was the Clerk of the Executive Council and Secretary to Cabinet for the Government of Prince Edward Island. Douglas spent most of his career at the Department of Agriculture where he rose to deputy minister.

He currently serves as general manager of the World Potato Congress Inc.
Yvon Cyr is a poultry producer from Saint-Francois-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick and a manager and founding shareholder with the Groupe Westco Inc., a chicken processing business.

He has served on the boards of both the Chicken Farmers of New Brunswick and the Chicken Farmers of Canada. He is also a past chair of the local chamber of commerce.
Maryse Dubé completed her law degree at Laval University in 1996 and was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1997. She is a partner of Sylvestre & Associés where she specializes in commercial and food law representing several financial institutions.

She also practices real estate law and handles collection cases. Mrs. Dubé also represents small to medium-sized enterprises in security law, bankruptcy, commercial litigation and corporate law (manufacturing and agricultural components). She is active in a number of communnity organizations.

She has been a member of the Farm Products Council of Canada since April, 2015.