(Courtesy of the Roy family)
Michel Roy, 73, has been a provincial deputy minister in Quebec and also the province's Chicago-based representative for 12 U.S. states.
As a jazz guitarist and composer, he has produced and released two compact discs and performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival. For two years, he headed a cruise ship company.
As the chair of Telefilm Canada, the federal agency charged with promoting and developing the film industry since 2007, he now has scaled back to working part time after the agency got back on the right track. He is managing a school of music in Quebec and has started a novel.