Kevin Lynch
Scott Brison has retired from politics—but politics haven’t retired from him
Anne Kingston: A closer look at the veteran politician’s surprise exit reveals yet more intersections between business and government
How Stephen Harper gets to the bottom of something
Paul Wells asks why the PM failed to follow his own precedent
What’s a finance minister to do?
Stephen Gordon considers two options and advises neither. At least for now.
Ideas you can take from the bank
“One rarely has to wait long at Perimeter before somebody comes along with a gift of money,” I wrote in September in my account of a month at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. Today will be another such day. But not nearly routine, even by the standards of such days.
The Lynch mob
Oh come on, somebody had to use that pun. L. Ian MacDonald says the wrong man has been let go; John Ivison hears a fascinating (if baroque) theory that accountability silliness was blocking infrastructure spending, and Lynch took the fall. I’m proud of my old paper for providing such thoughtful analysis (OK, speculation) on what could be dismissed as an arcane story. I wonder what the Post‘s competition will come up with tomorrow. So far this story has slipped through the cracks on what is normally the Globe‘s very good Politics website.
How Kevin Lynch announced his retirement
Clerk of the Privy Council is leaving in June
Kevin Lynch on the very challenging job he just left
From a McGill University speech last month. There’s a transcript in the new issue of Policy Options. (Our man John Geddes was one of the very few journalists to cover Lynch’s speech when he gave it. Here are John’s thoughts.)
Walks in the snow: there was one moderating influence left, but he won’t be troubling us any further, Guy
Release
Date: May 7, 2009
For immediate release
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF KEVIN LYNCH, CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL
See for yourself
The McGill panel discussion including Ian Brodie that John Geddes wrote about a couple weeks ago is now online.
‘The most depressing thing you’ll read today’
Adam Radwanski points to John Geddes’ dispatch from Montreal.
And sometimes, the revolving door goes the other way.
Full disclosure: I have no idea what, if anything, the significance is of this latest addition to Team Ignatieff, but it does have a pleasing sort of unpredictability to it, if nothing else.
Ignatieff snags senior PCO bureaucrat as adviser
OTTAWA – Newly minted Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has snagged a senior adviser right out from under Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s nose.
Sources confirmed late Tuesday that Kevin Chan, executive assistant and director to top federal bureaucrat Kevin Lynch, has joined Ignatieff’s team.
As clerk of the Privy Council Office, Lynch directly advises the prime minister on policy, administrative and political matters. He is the link between the Prime Minister’s Office and the deputy ministers who run each government department.
What smells fishy?
Must-reads: John Ivison on abandoning Senate reform; Don Martin on embracing deficits; Jonathan Kay on the Bush legacy; Vaughn Palmer on the B.C. budget.