A government relations consultant and former chief of staff to then-Canadian Wheat Board minister Charlie Mayer is the Canola Council of Canada’s new vice-president of corporate affairs.
Jim Everson takes the position, based in Ottawa, effective April 1, the canola council said in a release Wednesday.
Everson “will represent Canada’s $14 billion canola industry in the capital on issues of major political and regulatory importance,” council president JoAnne Buth said in the release.
The council cited Everson’s “extensive experience dealing with government issues for private companies, associations and non-profit groups for over 15 years.”
Born in Montreal and raised on a 600-acre eastern Ontario farm, Everson worked for the federal government for seven years, including a stint as chief of staff to Charlie Mayer, who then was Brian Mulroney’s minister of state responsible for the CWB (1984-87).
Everson later worked in government relations in the private sector, first for another company and then for his own practice, Everson Public Affairs, starting in 1998. His clients have included the Canadian Museums Association and Magazines Canada.
