Hill Climbers

A look at Treasury Board rules as Carney and cabinet start to staff up

With 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state, hundreds of staffing hires will take place in the coming days and weeks.

Prime Minister Mark Carney walks down Sparks Street after of his first post-election press conference in the Wellington Building on May 2. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 22, 2025

UPDATED May 23, 2025

As elected officials and staff prepare to return to Ottawa for the start of the new Parliament, ministerial staffing remained firmly in a state of transition, with little known of confirmed permanent hires in either the Prime Minister’s Office or the offices of Prime Minis...

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