Ian Shugart

• Trudeau appoints former top civil servant, medical association president as senators

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the picks today after the two were recommended to him by the independent advisory board for appointments to the upper chamber.

  Politics

  Sep 26, 2022
  
• Ian Shugart, Canada’s top civil servant, to take time off to seek cancer treatment

  Shugart says he intends to remain ``fully engaged'' in the short term.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2021
  
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• Small fraction of WE Charity affair documents redacted: top public servant

  Less than 2.5 per cent were redacted to black out information on other matters that were not relevant to the committee's investigation into the WE affair, he added.

  Canada

  Nov 24, 2020
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• A Canadian arrested abroad has made ‘serious and credible’ allegations of torture, minister told

  The name of the Canadian who complained of torture and the country in question were blacked out in the report.

  Canada

  Aug 15, 2019
• Trudeau government struggles to balance human rights push with bid for security council seat

  With the U.S. departure from the UN Human Rights Council, Ian Shugart, then Canada's deputy minister of foreign affairs, saw an opening — but also saw a risk.

  Canada

  Jun 19, 2019
• Top bureaucrat Michael Wernick to step down April 19 after SNC-Lavalin controversy

  The federal government announced Friday that Ian Shugart will take over as clerk of the Privy Council on April 19, which also marks the last day of Wernick's nearly 38-year career in the public service.

  Canada

  Mar 29, 2019