‘Fasten your seatbelts’: Fortier’s quick rise to oversee ‘enormous’ Treasury Board amid historic spending

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier's job will be improving public service recruitment, strengthening oversight on spending and financial reporting in the government's multi-billion-dollar spending estimates, exercising due diligence with costing and approval of federal programs, increasing diversity in federal decision-making positions, and more.

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, pictured left with Jade Mallette on Oct. 27, 2021, leaving a cabinet meeting held at 111 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. She was elected in 2017, the first woman to ever win the Ottawa-Vanier riding, and was first posted to cabinet in 2019 as associate finance minister and minister for middle class prosperity, a file that no longer exists.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

November 29, 2021

Mona Fortier’s “one, two step” to top the Treasury Board after two years in cabinet is a “vote of confidence” from the prime minister, says her former chief of staff, while critics challenge the minister to better serve as a “gatekeeper” for government pr...

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