Hill Climbers

Innovation Minister Bains adds new senior adviser, executive assistant

Plus, Adam Austen has exited as deputy director of communications to the foreign affairs minister.

Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured in the West Block on June 16, 2020. Behind him is Alexander Jagric, who was acting as press secretary at the time. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

October 26, 2020

Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains has a new senior adviser in his office, with Tisha Ashton making her return to the ministerial staff ranks on Parliament Hill. A former longtime staffer to then-Liberal MP and cabinet minister Scott Brison, Ms. Ashton was...

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