Ministers Hussen, Duncan hire new policy advisers
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen has a few new faces on his political staff team, including new senior policy adviser Jade-Émilie Daigneault who recently arrived from Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr’s office. Ms. Daigneault spent roughly six months working as a policy adviser in Mr. Carr’s trade office, having first joined his team in July 2018. […]
New Rural Economic Development Minister Jordan names Cory Pike as chief of staff
New Rural Economic Development Bernadette Jordan, one of two new faces added to the front bench as part of the Jan. 14 cabinet shuffle, has hired a chief of staff to run her brand new ministerial office: Cory Pike. Mr. Pike started on the job last week, arriving straight from Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness […]
Party crashers: The Hill Times gets kicked out of a Liberal social, but it was fun while it lasted
Federal Liberals interrupted their six-week holiday break last weekend to attend their national caucus retreat in Ottawa, where they plotted their parliamentary and election strategy ahead of their return this week. After day two of the national caucus retreat, the Liberals, along with their staffers and spouses, convened for a social at the popular political […]
Women and Gender Equality Minister Monsef gets a new chief of staff
Along with a new portfolio name, Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef, formerly known as the minister for status of women, has a new chief of staff in her office. Leslie Church is back at work on the Hill, after taking maternity leave from her old post as chief of staff to then-heritage minister […]
Bob Rae should apologize for tweet against Yellow Vests, says reader
Bob Rae, a former Liberal MP and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s appointed special envoy to Myanmar, demonized the Canadian Yellow Vest protesters by characterizing them as the “new Brownshirts, Blackshirts, and Whitehoods, vigilantes” in a Jan. 12 tweet. The misinformation and outright false information being disseminated by this once-prominent Canadian politician is insulting to the tens of thousands of working-class, patriotic, peaceful, law-abiding Canadian citizens in the Yellow […]
Science Minister Duncan names new director of parliamentary affairs ahead of new session
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains began the new year with a couple of staff departures from his ministerial office, including Nilani Logeswaran’s exit to become Science and Sport Minister Kirsty Duncan’s new director of parliamentary affairs. Ms. Logeswaran marked her last day in Mr. Bains’ office on Jan. 11. Previously in Ms. […]
It was a self-inflicted bad week for the Liberals
OTTAWA—It was a self-inflicted bad week for the Liberals. First was the cabinet shuffle, which ended up creating more questions than answers. Then followed the racially-based comments of Liberal candidate Karen Wang pitting Chinese against Indo voters in the British Columbia byelection including New Democratic leader Jagmeet Singh. On the cabinet shuffle, Prime Minister Justin […]
Former Liberal candidate accuses Trudeau and Liberal Party of rigging nomination contest in Milton, Ont.
A former Liberal candidate who came within a five percentage point-margin of unseating Conservative Deputy Leader Lisa Raitt in the 2015 election is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of manipulating a nomination contest to make way for their preferred candidate, Olympic gold medalist Adam van Koeverden, for the 2019 election. In a press […]
Policy director Berzins joins Transport Minister Garneau’s team
Transport Minister Marc Garneau has a new director of policy and parliamentary affairs in charge in his ministerial office, with Christopher Berzins having recently moved over from International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr’s team. Mr. Berzins started on the job in Mr. Garneau’s office on Jan. 7, just two days before the minister announced new […]
Why Mobina Jaffer left the Senate Liberals to sit solo
The ever-shrinking collective of Liberal-branded Senators will be smaller when the Red Chamber sits next month, following the departure from caucus of now non-affiliated Senator Mobina Jaffer. “It was a very, very painful decision to make,” Sen. Jaffer (British Columbia) told The Hill Times last week of her Dec. 19 request to Senate Speaker George Furey […]
