Two members of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s inner circle are getting a boost as part of a staff shuffle prompted by the appointment of his principal secretary to the Senate and a deputy chief of staff departing to run for office.
Scott Gilmore, currently Mr. Carney’s senior adviser on foreign, defence and security policy, is being promoted to principal secretary as of later this month, three sources told The Globe and Mail.
The sources also said that Maia Johnson, currently a senior adviser for Canada-U.S. relations, is taking on an additional role as chief operating officer.
Carney’s rewarding his old failed GFANZ climate cartel crew. Maia Johnson — ex-GFANZ Secretariat/Bloomberg aide — just got handed a shiny new “Chief Operating Officer” title in the PMO (plus her U.S. adviser gig)
Failed net-zero venture? No problem — just invent fancy roles for… pic.twitter.com/EUYCLXGnAY
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 13, 2026
If Poilievre did this our Media would be screaming “Foreign Interference” for a month.
My guess is she’s Carney’s Net Zero Sidepiece
The sources said she is connected to Mr. Carney through his prior work with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he launched while he was the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. But they did not know the specifics.
h/t Patti Jo
