Trudeau’s PMO enthusiastic, but swamped: ‘It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain they’re about to climb’
Staffers in the new Liberal Prime Minister’s Office are still feeling invigorated three months after their party won a surprising majority government and are “enthusiastic” to get to work on the government’s stacked agenda, say Liberal sources, but it’s also “enormously daunting.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) has a long list of platform promises […]
More Liberal chiefs of staff named, but handful of ministers still without
Some Cabinet ministers still haven’t hired a chief of staff yet, more than two months after being sworn into Cabinet. In many offices, some hiring decisions remain stuck in the approval pipeline, as ministerial exempt staffers are subject to more security clearances and rigorous background checks, given their potential access to Cabinet documents and matters […]
