Hill Climbers

PMO operations team split, staff moves abound

For one: Kate Purchase has been made executive director of communications and planning, and is set to go on maternity leave in March.

Kate Purchase, now executive director of communications and planning in the PMO, sits in the Senate foyer, flanked by PMO principal secretary Gerald Butts, left, and chief of staff Katie Telford, right, during an announcement by the prime minister last year. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

January 31, 2018

Some major changes took place in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office last week, ahead of director of operations John Zerucelli’s planned departure around the end of the spring session, including splitting the PMO’s operations team into two. Originally from...

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