Lametti, who served as Carney's principal secretary and is a former justice minister, will replace former Liberal leader Bob Rae, who has he
Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing his principal secretary David Lametti as Canada’s next ambassador to the United Nations.
The Prime Minister’s Office announced Thursday that Lametti, the former justice minister, will replace former Liberal leader Bob Rae, 77, who has held the role since 2020.
Lametti will start in the new diplomatic posting on Nov. 17.
He was brought into Carney’s office in July to take on the top role of principal secretary after serving as an adviser during the spring election.
Lametti, who served as Carney's principal secretary and is a former justice minister, will replace former Liberal leader Bob Rae, who has he
Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing his principal secretary and former justice minister David Lametti as Canada’s next ambassador to the UN.
Lametti will replace former Liberal leader Bob Rae, who has held the role since 2020.
He said it “depends on the context” and added that he doesn’t know if the contact between Wilson-Raybould and key figures in the Trudeau government on SNC-Lavalin was appropriate or inappropriate because he doesn’t know the details.
This is Justin Trudeau’s new attorney general and Justice Minister as the SNC Lavalin scandal is going on.
The Liberals are a lost cause. What is wrong with these people?
Jody Wilson-Raybould herself said she believes there is merit in studying splitting the roles
Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is publicly musing about whether Canada should consider separating the offices of its attorney general and its minister of justice in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin controversy, an idea that has backing from others who know the job intimately.
The woman at the centre of the political storm has herself called for this separation to be studied. As part of her explosive testimony to the House of Commons justice committee earlier this week, Jody Wilson-Raybould said she believes there is merit in the committee studying splitting the roles of attorney general and justice minister.
The justice minister is a political executive who answers to the prime minister, in charge of a federal department with major lawmaking responsibilities. The attorney general is an independent legal officer with final authority on how to handle prosecutions through the Public Prosecution Service of Canada and a duty to keep partisan concerns out of those decisions.
That Wilson-Raybould held both jobs, as is customary in Canada, is at the heart of the controversy over whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others pushed her too hard to help SNC-Lavalin avoid a criminal prosecution over allegedly corrupt business dealings.
Justice Minister Walks Back Charter Statement, Calls it "Explanatory Document"
Justice Minister Walks Back Charter Statement, Calls it “Explanatory Document”
Canada’s Justice Minister, David Lametti, is walking back the Charter Examination status and called the document an “Explanatory Document” instead.
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