Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a large shuffle of deputy ministers and senior public servants in a shake-up at the top of the public service that has long been expected around Ottawa.
In all, 12 individuals are receiving new assignments and eight departments will he new deputy ministers. Eight former deputy ministers are also departing the federal government.
Nick Leswick, the executive director for policy at the Bank of Canada, is now the deputy minister of finance and John McArthur, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., is joining the Privy Council Office as deputy secretary to the cabinet for economic policy.
Marie-Jos茅e Hogue, a puisne judge of the Court of Appeal of Quebec who led the federal inquiry into foreign interference last year, is becoming deputy minister of justice and the deputy attorney general.
Commissioner Justice Marie-Josee Hogue listens during the public inquiry into foreign interference on April 2, 2024. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that Hogue will be the new deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)Chris Fox, who had been deputy clerk of the privy council, is becoming deputy minister of defence.
Carney chose a new clerk of the Privy Council 鈥斅燤ichael Sabia 鈥斅爐his past summer and this shuffle is another major opportunity for the prime minister to put his own stamp on the machinery of government.
Former deputy minister, businessman Michael Sabia named next Privy Council clerkThe clerk of the Privy Council is the most senior member of the public service and deputy ministers are the senior public servants in government departments.聽
In addition to the moves announced on Friday, the Prime Minister's Office said "additional changes to the senior ranks of the public service will be announced early in the New Year."