Chief of Staff (Canada)

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The Chief of Staff of Canada's Prime Minister's Office is the top official of the office. It was created in 1987 to head the Prime Minister's Office or PMO.

Prior to the creation of the chief of staff position, the office was headed by the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary, a position which is now second in command to the chief of staff. People who held the position of principal secretary prior to 1987 were essentially de facto chiefs of staff, and may sometimes be informally referred to as chiefs of staff in some sources, but were not formally titled as such. Bernard Roy, Brian Mulroney's principal secretary from 1984 to 1988, was the last principal secretary to act as head of the PMO before the formal creation of the chief of staff position.