The new national director of the Ottawa-based Canadian Conference of the Arts brings a unique profile and a long resume to the job. Jean Malavoy “comes to the CCA after a three-year stint as the executive director of La Nouvelle Scène, an umbrella theatre centre for four francophone troupes in Ottawa… He also has a certificate in marketing the performing arts from the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal. In short, he knows both the bureaucratic/fiscal and the administrative/creative sides of the cultural ledger.” His main mission at the helm of the CCA will be to convince the precarious Martin government not to cut the arts for political gain.