The Canadian Media Production Association has promoted Reynolds Mastin to chief negotiator and chief legal officer, replacing John Barrack.

Mastin, most recently counsel at the producers’ association, will take charge of CMPA’s labour negotiations, while overseeing the terms of trade negotiations with broadcasters and the Canada Media Fund file.

He will also manage the CMPA’s Toronto office.

Before joining the CMPA nearly five years ago, Mastin was legal counsel for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and articled at the CRTC.

“In the four and a half years Reynolds has been with the CMPA, he has shown remarkable talent and leadership,” Norm Bolen, president and CEO of the CMPA, said in a statement in the wake of replacing John Barrack, who earlier this month left his post as the Canadian producers’ top negotiator.