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Astravas at helm of Emergency Preparedness Minister Blair’s new team

Plus, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is in need of a new parliamentary affairs head following Mitch Heimpel’s recent exit to work for Enterprise Canada.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, pictured during a press conference on flooding in British Columbia on Nov. 18, 2021, has kept a number of staff from his old public safety team. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

January 31, 2022

Now minister of emergency preparedness and president of the Queen’s Privy Council, Bill Blair has brought over his chief of staff of the last two years and counting, Zita Astravas, to run his new office. Astravas was chief of staff to Blair through his time as public safety minister...

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