Conservative MP Genuis’ newest project, Resuming Debate, aims to avoid sound bites, boost collegiality among MPs
OK Hillites, add Conservative MP Garnett Genuis‘ new podcast to your list of essential listening. Resuming Debate, which is currently four episodes deep, aims to have “longer-form, deeper, cross-party conversations” about issues of the day with MPs and expert guests. Speaking to The Hill Times last week, the Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., MP said he began eyeing […]
New directors on deck for Treasury Board President Duclos
Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos saw quite the office shake-up earlier this spring, with three new directors named, including Jean-Sébastien Bock as head of policy. Before his promotion, Mr. Bock had been a senior policy adviser in the office since December 2019. As director of policy, he replaces Dylan Marando who left to become a […]
De Adder’s Take: 05-31-2021
Alleged assassin needs to be sent back to Bangladesh, says new envoy
The immigration status of a man who has been convicted for his role in the 1975 Bangladesh coup is the most important issue to resolve to improve ties with Canada, says the new Bangladeshi high commissioner. Nur Chowdhury was convicted in absentia in Bangladesh for taking part in the coup that led to the killing […]
De Adder’s Take: 05-26-2021
NDP’s Qaqqaq announces planned departure from federal politics
NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, who garnered attention this year for her Nunavut housing tour, announced on May 20 that she will not be re-offering in the next election. The news broke on Twitter through a written statement from the first-term MP, which did not touch on the exact reason she decided to leave politics. Ms. […]
Meet Marci Surkes, the PMO’s air traffic controller
Marci Surkes, now executive director of policy and cabinet affairs to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has seen a lot over her 14 years on the Hill—spanning five Parliaments and four Liberal leaders—but nothing like the challenges, and pressures, wrought by the outbreak of COVID-19. “Everyone in these positions [of power] felt that similar pinch, of […]
Staff on the move in Prime Minister Trudeau’s office
With the summer recess drawing near, there’s been lots of staff movement on the Hill of late, including in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, where there have been four hires, four staff exits, and one title-change since Hill Climbers last checked in. That’s on top of the usual (for this time of year) slate of […]
Heath wins $50,000 Donner Prize for best public policy book of the year
Joseph Heath, author of The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State, published by Oxford University Press, won this year’s prestigious $50,000 Donner Prize for the best public policy book of the year on May 19. The Donner Canadian Foundation said in a press release that the book “dissects one of the largest […]
New directors for policy, comms in Diversity, Inclusion, and Youth Minister Chagger’s office
Diversity, Inclusion, and Youth Minister Bardish Chagger has seen a number of senior staff changes of late, most recently naming two new directors in her office. Riyadh Nazerally started on the job as Ms. Chagger’s new director of communications and issues management on May 10. Until then, he’d spent the last almost three years working […]
