New Privy Council clerk to focus on substance, “bubbling of ideas”

Mel Cappe will officially slip into the most powerful job in the federal government next Monday as Clerk of the Privy Council Office and Parliament Hill insiders say he triumphed over leading contenders because of his personality.

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