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Prime Minister announces change in Parliamentary Secretaries

April 21, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, has agreed upon his recommendation that a change in Parliamentary Secretaries will be made.

The appointments made by Order in Council on February 7th, 2006 have been changed as follows:

James Abbott – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage

Diane Ablonczy – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance

Jason Kenney – Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister

Deepak Obhrai – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

David L. Anderson – Parliamentary Secretary (for the Canadian Wheat Board) to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board

Betty Hinton – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs

James Moore – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics

Lynne Yelich – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development

Colin Carrie – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry

Steven J. Fletcher – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health

Helena Guergis – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade

Russ Hiebert – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence

Brian Jean – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

Randy Kamp – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Ed Komarnicki – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

Tom Lukiwski – Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform

Dave MacKenzie – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety

Ted Menzies – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation

Sylvie Boucher – Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Minister for La Francophonie and Official Languages

Rob Moore – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

Pierre Poilievre – Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board

Peter Van Loan – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mark Warawa – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment

Rod Bruinooge – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians

Jacques Gourde – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board

Christian Paradis – Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources

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