PMO could have big role in Senate clerk appointment, though process still unsettled

The current appointment process could see only PMO, PCO staff on the selection committee for Charles Robert's replacement.

Governor General David Johnston oversaw a ceremony to grant royal assent to several bills in the Senate Chamber earlier this month. The Senate will lose its top procedural adviser soon, and the process for selecting a successor has not yet begun. The Canadian Press photograph by Fred Chartrand

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

June 28, 2017

The government is still contemplating how to pick the next Senate clerk, though the process currently laid out would rely heavily on direction from the Prime Minister’s and Privy Council offices. Charles Robert, the interim Senate clerk who was recently named the new House clerk, moves into his ...

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