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Justice minister hires experienced issues management director

David Taylor, communications director to the justice minister, says the hiring was ‘planned well before’ news broke of alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case.

Justice Minister David Lametti, newly elevated to the government's front bench on Jan. 14, has faced a trial-by-fire of late amid allegations that the Prime Minister's Office pressured his predecessor, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin case. Mr. Lametti recently hired a director of issues management. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

February 18, 2019

Justice Minister David Lametti recently hired veteran Quebec Liberal staffer Nathalie Roberge to serve as director of issues management in his office—a hiring the office says was planned well before the recent controversy erupted over reports the Prime Minister’...

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