Senior PMO staffers return to Liberal caucus meetings after eight-month hiatus: ‘a huge mistake’

PMO staffers Andrée-Lyne Hallé and Angad Dhillon now attend national caucus meetings every week to take notes for Prime Minister Mark Carney, say Liberal MPs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a Liberal caucus meeting on the Hill. The national Liberal caucus decided last June that PMO staffers would not be invited to weekly meetings, but now two senior staffers have been attending these meetings to take notes, say Liberal MPs.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

March 15, 2026

Less than a year after the Liberal caucus decided that senior staffers from the Prime Minister's Office could not attend confidential weekly meetings, two senior staffers have been invited back at the request of Prime Minister Mark Carney to take notes, say Liberal MPs.

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