warming up the winter castle

Full disclosure: I have no idea what, if anything, the significance is of this latest addition to Team Ignatieff, but it does have a pleasing sort of unpredictability to it, if nothing else.
Ignatieff snags senior PCO bureaucrat as adviser

OTTAWA – Newly minted Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has snagged a senior adviser right out from under Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s nose.

Sources confirmed late Tuesday that Kevin Chan, executive assistant and director to top federal bureaucrat Kevin Lynch, has joined Ignatieff’s team.

As clerk of the Privy Council Office, Lynch directly advises the prime minister on policy, administrative and political matters. He is the link between the Prime Minister’s Office and the deputy ministers who run each government department.