When Brigid Rivoire quit her job as Canadian Federation of Agriculture executive director in 2006 to take a position with the Canadian Child Care Federation, the joke was that she already had lots of experience with child-like behaviour and tantrums in her dealings with farm leaders.
Little more than a year later, she is returning to the CFA and her old position, ready for more of the same.
On Jan. 28, Rivoire settles back into her old chair at CFA headquarters in downtown Ottawa. Her successor, Justin To, left the CFA after little more than a year in the job.
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“It’s a great opportunity to return to issues and a structure that I know well, to continue some of the work that Justin started to put in place both working with me and then after I left,” she said.
She moves to the CFA from one of its members, the Canadian Wheat Board. After leaving the child care federation, Rivoire took a job as the board’s government relations senior adviser in Ottawa.
Before she joined the CFA in 2001, Rivoire had spent years as a communications official at Agriculture Canada.
