LILLEY: Why is Mark Carney hiring Americans for the PMO?

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Source Mark Carney is a man of many firsts, but I wouldn’t have picked him to be the first prime minister to hire an American to help run the Prime Minister’s Office. This week, it was reported that Carney was promoting a woman unknown to most Canadians to the position of chief operating officer in the PMO. It appears to be a first for Canada to have a COO in the PMO, but it’s who the woman is that is truly interesting. Maia Johnson is currently listed in the government employee directory as Carney’s “Senior Advisor, United States Stakeholder Strategy.” That sounds like a job for someone at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, not someone working on Wellington St. in Ottawa. This is where it gets really interesting, though, because Johnson, the woman advising Carney on how to deal with Donald Trump, is an American and a registered Democrat with ties to the campaigns of Hillary...