April 10, 2017 | Category: Government Updates

 

Please note the following changes within WESTAC’s government members.

• Shawn Tupper, ADM, Policy of Transport Canada will be moving to the Privy Council Office on April 17, 2017 as Assistant Secretary, Economic and Regional Development. Sara Wiebe, currently Director General, Air Policy will replace Shawn in the interim.
• Nithi Govindasamy, Saskatchewan’s Deputy Minister of Highways & Infrastructure retired on March 31. Blair Wagar is Acting Deputy Minister.
• the Government of the Northwest Territories has combined the Transportation and Public Works departments into a new Department of Infrastructure. Hon. Wally Schumann is the Minister of Infrastructure. Paul Guy is the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure. As of April 1, 2017 Russell Neudorf is a Special Projects Advisor until he officially retires from the GNWT in the fall of 2017.