Ministers Sohi, Gould nab two aides from MacAulay
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s office is down two after Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi and Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould both recently poached staff from his team. Geordie Summers-Lubar marked his last day as a special assistant in Mr. MacAulay’s office on Feb. 8 and two days later started on the job as a special […]
PMO staffers involved in the SNC-Lavalin case
Conservatives have been pushing for a list of nine individuals to be called to appear before the House Justice Committee, including Liberal MP Jody Wilson-Raybould, Justice Minister David Lametti, Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, director of public prosecutions Kathleen Roussel, and five political staffers. Mr. Wernick testified last Thursday. Gerald Butts, now-former principal secretary to […]
Prime Minister’s Office adds to communications, correspondence team
Aside from the recent high-profile exit of now-former PMO principal secretary Gerald Butts, a few other, unrelated, staffing changes have taken place in the Prime Minister’s Office of late. Bernadeth Betchi Nnomo has joined the communications and planning unit in the PMO as a new special assistant. She marked her first day at work in […]
Finance Minister Morneau hires former Wynne speechwriter
A growing number of former Ontario Liberal staffers have found new jobs on Parliament Hill since the June 2018 provincial election that saw Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives take power. One of the latest, Kevin Hurren, recently joined Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s office. Mr. Hurren started on the job as a new special assistant for communications to […]
Justice minister hires experienced issues management director
Justice Minister David Lametti recently hired veteran Quebec Liberal staffer Nathalie Roberge to serve as director of issues management in his office—a hiring the office says was planned well before the recent controversy erupted over reports the Prime Minister’s Office pressured the former justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin court case. Ms. […]
Minister LeBlanc nabs policy aide from Minister Duclos’s team
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc recently added a new senior policy adviser to his political staff team, plucking Shannon Zimmerman from Families, Children, and Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos’s office. She marked her first day working for Mr. LeBlanc on Jan. 28, and in the minister’s office joins fellow senior policy adviser Samuel Yorke and […]
Staffers on the move post-shuffle as Rural Economic Development Minister Jordan continues to build team
Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan is slowly building up an experienced ministerial staff team. She recently hired Brian Kaufmann to take over as her director of communications. Mr. Kaufmann started on the job tackling media and communications for Ms. Jordan on Feb. 4, and before then was director of parliamentary affairs and operations in the Indigenous […]
Director-level changes in offices of ministers Carr, Sohi, Joly
International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr has new directors of communications and policy in his ministerial office, filling two recently vacated holes in his staffing roster. Michael Jones, who until recently was an issues manager in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), has been hired as Mr. Carr’s new director of communications. His first day on […]
Rebecca Caldwell joins Finance Minister Morneau’s team
Finance Minister Bill Morneau has made some changes to his ministerial staffing roster, including recently hiring on Rebecca Caldwell as a new senior adviser. Ms. Caldwell was previously chief of staff to Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef. She was recently replaced in that role by former Google Canada head Leslie Church, who was […]
Meet the top-lobbied political gatekeepers in 2018
Canada’s most-lobbied political aide is Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains’ policy director, a man whose job, as one lobbyist put it, is basically to be lobbied. For the second year in a row, David McFarlane, like the minister he reports to, racked up the most communications reports of political staffers with lobbyists in 2018. Some 334 […]
