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Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s principal secretary, makes social media work for him
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OTTAWA—It was tradition that the senior aides around the prime minister were ghosts, unseen and unheard by Canadians as they quietly worked the levers of power.
Well, tradition meet Gerald Butts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
There’s a new government in town and with it, a new impetus to harness new mediums to communicate. And debate.
Canadians — at least those on social media — were reminded of that this week when Butts used Twitter to challenge criticisms of the Liberals’ newly unveiled strategy to take on Islamic State extremists.
When Carleton academic Stephanie Carvin said on Twitter Tuesday that the Liberals should “own” and justify their decision to end combat missions by the CF-18s, Butts replied.
“We’ve only been making this argument for 18 months. We’ve owned it for a long time,” he said on Twitter.
And when fellow academic Steve Saideman weighed in with his own critique, Butts attempted to rebut those arguments, too, saying at one point that Trudeau had stated the case “about 10 thousand times.”
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Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s principal secretary, makes social media work for him | Toronto Star
Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s principal secretary, makes social media work for him
prime minister gerald butts
OTTAWA—It was tradition that the senior aides around the prime minister were ghosts, unseen and unheard by Canadians as they quietly worked the levers of power.
Well, tradition meet Gerald Butts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
There’s a new government in town and with it, a new impetus to harness new mediums to communicate. And debate.
Canadians — at least those on social media — were reminded of that this week when Butts used Twitter to challenge criticisms of the Liberals’ newly unveiled strategy to take on Islamic State extremists.
When Carleton academic Stephanie Carvin said on Twitter Tuesday that the Liberals should “own” and justify their decision to end combat missions by the CF-18s, Butts replied.
“We’ve only been making this argument for 18 months. We’ve owned it for a long time,” he said on Twitter.
And when fellow academic Steve Saideman weighed in with his own critique, Butts attempted to rebut those arguments, too, saying at one point that Trudeau had stated the case “about 10 thousand times.”
mo
Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s principal secretary, makes social media work for him | Toronto Star
