OTTAWA — Ian Shugart, the man tapped to replace Michael Wernick as Canada’s top civil servant after Wernick’s resignation on Monday in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, is a longtime public servant who once served in Brian Mulroney’s Tory government. He has served as deputy minister of Foreign Affairs since 2016, and has also held top spots at Employment and Social Development Canada and at Environment Canada, working with Conservative and Liberal governments. Wernick has testified twice before the same committee and denied that anything inappropriate occurred, claiming that Wilson-Raybould experienced only “lawful advocacy.”Shugart comes to the Privy Council Office after nearly 30 years in the public service. He was named deputy minister of Environment in 2008, under the Harper government, and was moved to Employment and Social Development in 2010. “I’m not just an import from some other department, as a senior deputy minister,” he said.

Source: National Post March 18, 2019 23:03 UTC