APTN National News
OTTAWA—A former long-serving deputy minister in the variously named federal Indigenous Affairs department has been named as the country’s top bureaucrat.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday in a statement that Michael Wernick would become the new Clerk of the Privy Council as of Friday.
Wernick was serving as Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council, a position he was appointed to in 2014.
Previously, Wernick served as deputy minister for the then-named Aboriginal Affairs department from May 2006 to July 2014.
Aboriginal Affairs was named Indian and Northern Affairs when Wernick first took on the deputy minister role for the department.
Wernick has been in the federal public service since 1981.
