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April 20, 2006
McLure reappointed as head of DCC
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John D. McLure has been reappointed as Chair of Defence Construction Canada (DCC).
DDC provides contracting, construction contract management and related infrastructure services to the Department of National Defence.
McLure is President and CEO of JDM Consulting Inc., and a senior associate at Hill and Knowlton Canada Limited. In 1975, he left the Canadian Forces to pursue a career with the federal public service. He served with Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion, the Department of National Defence, and the Department of Western Economic Diversification. McLure retired from the Public Service as a Deputy Minister in 1997 and joined Hill and Knowlton.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1963, and attended military studies at the Royal Military College of Science in England in 1964 and 1990.
More than 1,500 contracts a year are awarded by DCC for professional services, construction, goods and other infrastructure related works, throughout Canada and overseas totalling up to half a billion dollars.
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