Hill Climbers

All cabinet chiefs of staff now named, 12 of 36 are former Trudeau PMO aides

Plus, PMO executive director of communications and planning Kate Purchase is leaving the Hill.

Ministers and their chiefs of staff, from top to bottom, left to right: Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Elder Marques; Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and George Young; President of the Privy Council Dominic LeBlanc and Jamie Innes; and Seniors Minister Deb Schulte and Anne Dawson. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and courtesy of LinkedIn

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

December 18, 2019

All 36 members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet now have chiefs of staff in place to run their ministerial offices, and one-third of them are former aides in Mr. Trudeau’s office as prime minister. But first, some prime minister's office staffing news: executive dire...

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