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Manel Menouar is now both deputy chief of staff and director of policy to the defence minister, and Renée Filiatrault is back on the Hill as culture change adviser to Blair.

Defence Minister Bill Blair speaks with reporters on his way into a Liberal caucus meeting in the West Block on Oct. 4, 2023. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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