Politics Insider: Carney recruits Hydro‑Québec CEO to head public service

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Hello, welcome to Politics Insider. Let’s look at what happened today. Mark Carney has recruited Hydro‑Québec CEO Michael Sabia to take over as the country’s top bureaucrat to help advance the Prime Minister’s ambitious agenda. Sabia had served as deputy minister of finance before he left government to serve as head of the Quebec pension plan and later Hydro‑Québec. The current Clerk of the Privy Council John Hannaford announced today that he will leaving the government as the head of the public service and top adviser to the Prime Minister. Robert Fife reports that Carney had sought out Sabia because...