OTTAWA — Bureaucrats working for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had diplomats push Denmark to speed up the appointment of former cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett as ambassador to that country — a change most embassy staff learned of through a media le
ak.
On Oct. 25, 2023, Global Affairs Canada's head of diplomatic assignments emailed the then-ambassador to Denmark, Denis Robert, requesting a phone call. Two weeks later, GAC staff noted in a Dec. 8, 2023 email that the Privy Council Office, which supports the prime minister, is"managing very specific timelines in this specific case."
An official at GAC responded with an email that was also largely redacted. In it, the official told Robert in French that"the government has indicated an interest in getting the posting started as soon as possible, so waiting until the end of the fiscal year is not realistic." Former foreign minister Stéphane Dion has held various senior postings in Europe since 2017. Former fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan was tapped to be Canada's consul general in Boston in 2023, replacing former MP Rodger Cuzner.
The internal documents also show that staff at the embassy in Copenhagen learned of the change through a January 2024 email that a GAC manager accidentally sent to the embassy's general inbox.
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