Expect continuity in Canada’s foreign policy and national security corridors after DM shuffle: analysts

Trade consultant Eric Miller says David Morrison will bring a new approach as deputy minister of international trade.

In one of the largest senior civil service shuffles in Canada's history, David Morrison, far left, leaves the Privy Council Office to become the deputy minister of international trade, Jody Thomas, second from left, and Dan Costello, second from right, enter the office as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security and intelligence adviser and his foreign and defence policy adviser, respectively, while Bill Matthews, far right, becomes the deputy minister of National Defence. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and photographs courtesy of Twitter

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BY NEIL MOSS

January 12, 2022

While two new principal national security and foreign policy advisers to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are starting in the Privy Council Office as part of an immense shuffle in the senior civil service, no sharp policy turns are expected. The shuffle of 18 senior public servants announced on Jan. 5...

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