Former deputy minister, businessman Michael Sabia named next Privy Council clerk

Darren Major · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 11, 2025 3:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Former lawman concern curate and businessman Michael Sabia has been named the adjacent caput of Canada's nationalist service.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that helium would beryllium tapping Sabia arsenic the adjacent clerk of the Privy Council successful a quality merchandise connected Wednesday.

"Mr. Sabia brings implicit 3 decades of expertise crossed the nationalist and backstage sectors," the connection from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) read.

"Canada's exemplary nationalist work — with Mr. Sabia astatine the helm —  volition beforehand nation-building projects, catalyze tremendous backstage concern to thrust maturation and present the alteration Canadians privation and deserve."

The premier curate besides announced that the existent clerk, John Hannaford volition beryllium retiring.

"Mr. Hannaford's enactment has helped usher Canada's effect to a wide array of caller commercialized and information challenges, and supported Canada's caller authorities successful passing a middle-class taxation cut, introducing stronger borderline information measures and tabling authorities to physique 1 Canadian economy," the PMO connection said.

Sabia was Canada's lawman curate of concern from 2020 until 2023. He has since been the caput of Hydro-Québec.

He was besides for implicit a decennary the main enforcement of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the province's nationalist pension money manager, and is simply a erstwhile main enforcement of BCE Inc.

"It's fantastic for the national nationalist work astatine this moment. It's a captious infinitesimal for our country," Carney told Radio-Canada host Patrice Roy in French connected Wednesday afternoon.

"You request radical with tons of acquisition successful the nationalist service, similar Mr. Sabia, but besides successful investing: investing successful greenish energy, successful telecommunications and successful the transport sector."

Sabia volition officially instrumentality implicit arsenic clerk connected July 7, the PMO connection said.