Anxious Liberals want Grits to fill all-important national campaign director position soon

Liberal Party headquarters is still undecided on whether former PMO principal secretary Gerald Butts, a key architect of the 2015 election win, will have any role in the October federal election.

It’s widely expected that Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, would either hold the campaign director’s position, or another senior position in the upcoming campaign, but as of last week no official announcement had yet been made. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 22, 2019

With the next election day only six months away and the campaign unofficially underway, the federal Liberals have yet to officially name a national campaign director which is creating some anxiousness among party members eager to get started, say Liberals. “We’re not getting clear directions fr...

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