Butts’ exit poses challenge for Trudeau PMO, will be ‘exceedingly difficult’ to replace: Liberal strategists

‘I don’t think there are many people generally who are qualified to play that role, so that’s the immediate challenge,’ says Earnscliffe Strategy’s Charles Bird.

John Delacourt, a former Liberal staffer and now vice-president at Ensight Canada, says he expects the PM’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, will 'make very sure that the prime minister doesn’t feel that [there’s] all of a sudden a gaping hole' in terms of support after Gerald Butts' Feb. 18 exit. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

February 25, 2019

Now-former principal secretary Gerald Butts’ sudden exit from the Prime Minister’s Office poses a challenge for the government and leaves a gap that will be “exceedingly difficult” to fill, say former Liberal staffers and strategists, but they expect it will be a stumble, not a fall for the ...

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