New advance hired in PMO, as policy adviser exits for Liberal Research Bureau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently welcomed a new advance aide to his office, while policy adviser Tyler Meredith has left the top office for a senior role in the Liberal caucus’ research bureau. Mr. Meredith left the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) late last month and started as a senior policy adviser to the Liberal caucus, […]
Transport Minister Garneau scoops up Simard as new communications director
Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has hired a new director of communications for his ministerial office, recently scooping up Emilie Simard straight from the heritage minister’s office. Ms. Simard marked her first day as communications director to Mr. Garneau on Aug. 20. Until then, she’d been working away as director of communications to the Canadian […]
Minister Joly hires operations director as she staffs up new office
Tourism, Official Languages, and La Francophonie Minister Mélanie Joly has finalized a few more staffing decisions in her new ministerial office, including hiring Maximilien Roy as her director of operations. Mr. Roy joined Ms. Joly’s growing staff team straight from Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s office, where he’d been working as a policy and Quebec regional […]
MacNeil steps in as chief of staff to Agriculture Minister MacAulay
Veteran Liberal staffer Vince MacNeil has landed in Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s office post shuffle, having taken over as chief of staff in early August, Hill Climbers has learned. He officially started on the job on Aug. 7. Mr. MacNeil was previously chief of staff to Dominic LeBlanc as fisheries and oceans minister. He’d started […]
Public services minister names a new policy director, as seniors minister staffs up
Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility Minister Carla Qualtrough has hired on a second director of policy to her office, Kristina Molloy, who’ll be focused on the minister’s accessibility file. Ms. Molloy was previously director of policy to Kirsty Duncan as the minister for sports and persons with disabilities. In the July 18 shuffle, Ms. […]
Minister Monsef’s press secretary joins justice minister’s office
Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef needs a new press secretary after the recent departure of Célia Canon, who is now a communications adviser to Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. Ms. Canon spent the past year working for Ms. Monsef, having been hired on as the minister’s press secretary in August 2017, and before that was […]
When you write a minister, a machine shouldn’t reply
KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In old Geneva, there is a lovely restaurant serving traditional Swiss meals, with an ambience that lends itself to fondue and raclette: wooden chairs, plaster walls and beamed ceilings. Outside, in a pride of place by the door is a letter, bronzed for perpetuity, from former United States president Bill Clinton, thanking the proprietors […]
New operations director joins Fisheries Minister Wilkinson’s team
New Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has hired Laura Mitchell to serve as his new director of operations. Ms. Mitchell joins the new minister’s team straight from Environment Minister Catherine McKenna’s office, where she was since September 2017 a parliamentary affairs adviser and assistant to the minister’s parliamentary secretary, a role Mr. Wilkinson filled […]
This just in: Toronto-area Liberal MPs endorse a Tory
Some Toronto-area Liberal MPs have endorsed Toronto mayor John Tory for re-election in the upcoming Toronto municipal election. Mr. Tory, not just a Tory in name, is being challenged by Jennifer Keesmaat, a former Toronto city planner who floated the idea of secession, which she has since walked back on. Mr. Tory was first elected […]
Boutin takes over as chief of staff to Revenue Minister Lebouthillier
National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier has promoted Bernard Boutin to take over as her new chief of staff in light of Josée Guilmette’s recent departure from the Hill. Ms. Guilmette had been chief of staff to Ms. Lebouthillier since December 2015 and moved to Ottawa from Québec City for the job. She marked her last […]
