Heard On The Hill

Eight takeaways from Max Valiquette’s memoir of his time in the Trudeau PMO: I ‘got to carry something we called the Bat-phone’

Also, Ezra Levant catches up with Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry in Davos, author Mark Bourrie wins the 2025 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media, and Davis Legree is The Wire Report's new editor.

In his eight-part memoir from his time as executive director of communications in the Trudeau PMO, Max Valiquette, left, calls out the bullying his former colleagues Supriya Dwivedi and Katie Telford, centre, received 'for daring to be women in politics,' and describes his old boss' now girlfriend Katy Perry as 'generous and great.'Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn, The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson, and courtesy Wikimedia Commons

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

January 26, 2026

It’s been a few months since Max Valiquette finished his Substack “reckoning” of his time as executive director of communications in Justin Trudeau’s Prime Minister’s Office. The marketing strategist was brought into the PMO in Nov...

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