John Paul Manley is a Canadian lawyer,businessman,and politician who served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2002 to 2003. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004. From January 2010 to October 2018 he was president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada. He is currently the Chairman of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and serves on the advisory board of the Leaders' Debates Commission.
The Ontario Liberal Party is a political party in the province of Ontario,Canada. The party has been led by Steven Del Duca since March 7,2020.
The 2003 Ontario general election was held on October 2,2003,to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario,Canada.
Warren Kinsella is a Canadian lawyer,author,musician,political consultant,and commentator. Kinsella has written commentary in most of Canada's major newspapers and several magazines,including The Globe and Mail,the Toronto Sun,Ottawa Citizen,the National Post,The Walrus,Postmedia newspapers and currently with Loonie Politics. He appeared regularly on the Sun News Network. Kinsella is the founder of the Daisy Consulting Group,a Toronto-based firm that engages in paid political campaign strategy work,lobbying and communications crisis management.
James Scott Peterson,is a Canadian former politician. He was a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1988 to 2007 who represented the northern Toronto riding of Willowdale. He served in the cabinet of Jean Chrétien as Secretary of State and the cabinet of Paul Martin as Minister of International Trade.
Gregory Samuel Sorbara is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995,and again from 2001 to 2012 who represented ridings north of Toronto in the city of Vaughan. Sorbara served as a cabinet minister in the governments of David Peterson and Dalton McGuinty.
Matthew Mendelsohn is a Canadian public policy expert and public sector executive,best known for leading Prime Minister’s Justin Trudeau’s Results &Delivery Unit and the Government of Canada’s Impact &Innovation Unit from 2016-2020. These followed his role as a chief architect of the Liberals’2015 election platform and serving as a member of incoming Prime Minister Trudeau’s transition team,helping with cabinet selection and penning open and public Ministerial mandate letters.
Gerald Michael Butts is a Canadian political consultant who served as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from November 4,2015 until his resignation on February 18,2019. From 2008 to 2012,he was president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund Canada,part of a global conservation organization. In 2014,Maclean's magazine declared Butts to be the fourteenth most powerful Canadian. As the former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,Butts was praised as the architect behind the Liberal Party of Canada platform that led to their victory in October of 2015 and was one of the most senior staffers in the Office of the Prime Minister,along with Katie Telford.
The Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs is responsible for intergovernmental affairs between the Canadian province of Ontario and the other provinces and territories and the Canadian government. The ministry's goal is to strengthen national unity and Ontario's role within Canada. The current Minister is the Honourable Doug Ford,also Premier of Ontario;the position is often held concurrently by the Premier.
David James Ramsay was a Canadian politician in Ontario. He was elected as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1985 who crossed the floor a year later to join the Liberal party. He represented the northern Ontario riding of Timiskaming from 1985 to 1999 and the redistributed riding of Timiskaming—Cochrane from 1999 to 2011. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of David Peterson and Dalton McGuinty.
Gerry Phillips is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the eastern Toronto riding of Scarborough—Agincourt from 1987 to 2011. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of David Peterson and Dalton McGuinty.
David Richard Caplan was a Canadian politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the ridings of Oriole and Don Valley East from 1997 to 2011 and a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty from 2003 to 2009.
The Province of Ontario is governed by a unicameral legislature,the Legislative Assembly of Ontario,which operates in the Westminster system of government. The political party that wins the largest number of seats in the legislature normally forms the government,and the party's leader becomes premier of the province,i.e.,the head of the government.
The Embassy of Canada in Washington,D.C. is Canada's main diplomatic mission to the United States. The embassy building is located at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest,Washington,D.C.,between the United States Capitol and the White House,just north of the National Gallery of Art. In addition to its diplomatic role,the embassy provides consular services for Delaware,Washington,D.C.,Maryland,Virginia,and West Virginia. It also hosts a Trade Commissioner Service office,which has Maryland,Washington,D.C.,Virginia,and West Virginia as its responsibilities.
Benjamin Byung Kyu Chin,known for short as Ben Chin,is a Canadian political advisor and former public and private sector executive. He had an earlier career as a television journalist.
Peter Donolo is a Canadian communications and political strategist. From 1993 to 1999,he was the Director of Communications in the office of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien,from which he holds the record as the longest serving prime ministerial director of communications in Canadian history.
Rick Anderson is a Canadian political strategist,public affairs commentator and businessman.
Robert Oliphant is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He served in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011. He returned to office after re-election in 2015 and subsequently in 2019.
Katie Telford is a Canadian political strategist who is the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She served as Trudeau's chief campaign advisor during his successful campaign in the 2015 election. Following the resignation of Gerald Butts,Telford has been acknowledged as holding the highest-ranking position within the Prime Minister's Office.
Melissa LantsmanMP is a Canadian politician and public relations executive who serves as the Member of Parliament for Thornhill in the House of Commons of Canada. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada,she was elected in the 2021 Canadian federal election. She is the first LGBTQ woman and Jewish woman ever to be elected as a Conservative MP.
