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McCrimmon to bank on her time on the Hill to help in new role as federal liaison

“I'm the one with the most recent experience there, and I understand the federal government, what their priorities are."

Published Mar 4, 2024 at 5:45pm

Barbara Patrocinio
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Barbara Patrocinio
McCrimmon to bank on her time on the Hill to help in new role as federal liaison

Liberal MP Karen McCrimmon rises in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday, May 20, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Karen McCrimmon says she's banking on the relationships she cultivated in her six years on Parliament Hill to help in her new role as liaison to the federal Liberal caucus.

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie named McCrimmon to the post in a critic shuffle last week, where she also tapped the newest member of the party's Queen's Park caucus to handle the education, colleges and universities file.

McCrimmon served from 2015 to 2021 as the MP for Kanata-Carleton, a sprawling riding that covers Ottawa's westernmost suburbs. She re-entered the political arena last year to run for the Ontario Liberals in the provincial version of her former riding — they share the same boundaries — in a July byelection and shocked many by flipping the riding red. It was the first time the Ontario Liberals had ever won Kanata-Carleton.

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