Who’s who behind the Indigenous services, Crown-Indigenous relations, and northern affairs ministers’ offices
New Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has held onto a number of staff from his predecessor’s team, including Katharine Heus, who’s now director of policy in the office. Ms. Heus was previously director of operations in the office under former minister Seamus O’Regan, who is now the minister for natural resources. Before following Mr. O’Regan […]
Deputy PM Freeland builds up team
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has continued to build her team, with two more former Prime Minister’s Office staffers among the recent additions. Former PMO policy adviser Bud Sambasivam is now a senior policy adviser to Ms. Freeland, while Adam Grech, a former advance staffer to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has become senior executive assistant […]
Justice Minister Lametti adds a rights implementation director to his team
Justice Minister David Lametti has created a new position in his ministerial office, director of rights implementation, and Jesse McCormick has been tapped to take on the role. In this capacity, Mr. McCormick, who’s a member of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, has been tasked with helping “facilitate collaboration with First Nations, Inuit, and […]
Key directors hired in Labour Minister Tassi’s office
Labour Minister Filomena Tassi has made a number of key hires in her ministerial office, which, as previously reported, is being run by chief of staff Jude Welch. Miles Hopper has been named director of policy to Ms. Tassi. He was previously working with then-employment, workforce development, and labour minister Patty Hajdu as a policy […]
Flanagan named one of two policy heads to Environment Minister Wilkinson
There are a number of new faces now at work in Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s office, including new director of climate, energy, and regulatory affairs Erin Flanagan. Ms. Flanagan was last posted in then-international trade minister Jim Carr’s office as director of policy. Before she joined that office in January 2019, she’d […]
Big changes in the PMO: former MP Lapointe joins as new caucus liaison
As the House of Commons readies to return on Jan. 27, there are some notable additions to the all-important team in the Prime Minister’s Office, including Matt Stickney as executive director of operations. Mr. Stickney spent the 2019 election as field director for the Liberal Party’s national campaign and before then had been chief of staff to […]
Ministers Anand, Fortier make headway in firming up their staff teams
New Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand has her senior staff team in place, with new directors of operations, communications, and parliamentary affairs recently hired. Caitlin Mullan-Boudreau has been hired as operations director. She was previously working in the office of the minister of fisheries and oceans, starting under then-minister Hunter Tootoo in 2016 […]
All cabinet chiefs of staff now named, 12 of 36 are former Trudeau PMO aides
All 36 members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet now have chiefs of staff in place to run their ministerial offices, and one-third of them are former aides in Mr. Trudeau’s office as prime minister. But first, some prime minister’s office staffing news: executive director of communications and planning Kate Purchase will soon be leaving the […]
It is known: policy directors named for ministers Lebouthillier, Bibeau, Ng
Ministerial staffing on the Hill is coming along, with directors of policy now confirmed in the offices of International Trade and Small Business and Export Promotion Minister Mary Ng, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, and National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier. An avalanche of staffing news is expected soon, as ministers have until Dec. 20 to decide […]
Stand by me: a number of chiefs of staff stick with ministers
Step No. 1 in getting a ministerial office set up—at least when it comes to staffing, otherwise finding a desk and computer probably top the list—is settling on a chief of staff, who then typically takes point in filling out the rest of the team. And of the 26 chiefs of staff confirmed so far, […]
