Hill Climbers

Staffing moves for ministers Vandal, Freeland, and Wilkinson

Plus, Hill Climbers takes a look at two waivers granted to ex-staffers by Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion.
Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal, left, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson have all seen staffing changes of late. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT
April 7, 2021
Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal and his chief of staff, Brian Kaufmann, have a new executive assistant, Anna Bodnar. Ms. Bodnar joined Mr. Vandal’s team in early February and is a former parliamentary research and administrative assistant to Liberal MP Peter Fonseca

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