This news article details recent staff changes within the Canadian government, focusing on the offices of Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault. It highlights the departures of Shiraz Keushgerian, who moved from Duclos's office to the Senate's Corporate Security Directorate, and Camille Leblanc and Liam Olsen, who left Guilbeault's team.
There are numerous shuffle-related staff changes underway following last month's cabinet rework, which impacted 11 existing teams and necessitated the establishment of 13 new ones. However, these changes extend beyond cabinet offices, with other staff movements continuing. Shiraz Keushgerian is the latest example, transitioning from the Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos's office to the Senate's Corporate Security Directorate.
Keushgerian's departure from Duclos's team, where he served as a senior adviser for parliamentary affairs and issues management since September 2023, marked his last day on December 19th. While he's left government, he hasn't left the Hill. Keushgerian has taken on an executive adviser role with the Senate's Corporate Security Directorate, which oversees all security matters in the Red Chamber except for physical security, handled by the Parliamentary Protective Service. Prior to joining Duclos's team, Keushgerian held the position of press secretary for then-housing, diversity, and inclusion minister Ahmed Hussen. He also boasts experience as an adviser to former seniors ministers Deb Schulte and Kamal Khera, where he addressed issues management, parliamentary affairs, and Quebec regional affairs. Meanwhile, at Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault's office, there have been a couple of recent staff exits. Quebec regional affairs adviser Camille Leblanc departed the environment team in December, having joined the office in August of the same year. Leblanc's journey on the Hill began in March 2024, initially serving as a Quebec adviser to Small Business Minister Rechie Valdez for approximately five months. Another change affecting Guilbeault's regional desks saw British Columbia and Prairies regional affairs adviser Liam Olsen leave near the beginning of December. Olsen, who has also been actively involved as president of the Young Liberals of Canada since May 2023, worked for Guilbeault since January 2022. Initially hired as an executive assistant to the minister's chief of staff, Olsen was promoted to his regional affairs role at the start of 2023. Prior to his tenure with the environment minister, Olsen gained experience as a part-time constituency assistant to Citizens’ Services Minister Terry Beech in his Burnaby North–Seymour, B.C. riding, and as an intern in the North Vancouver constituency office of Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. With these departures, new hires are expected to join the environment minister's office to fill the vacant regional desks.
HILL STAFF CHANGES GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE SENATE CORPORATE SECURITY DIRECTORATE PUBLIC SERVICES AND PROCUREMENT MINISTER ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER QUEBEC REGIONAL AFFAIRS BRITISH COLUMBIA AND PRAIRIES REGIONAL AFFAIRS.
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