Early Career
He and Trudeau remained friends and became even closer when Porteous took a two-year leave of absence from his law practice in 1966 and went to Ottawa to work as an executive assistant to Treasury Board president C. M. Drury, before volunteering as a speechwriter on Trudeau's 1968 leadership campaign.
When Trudeau won the Liberal Party leadership campaign, on becoming Prime Minister later in 1968 he offered Porteous a job as his executive assistant, a position he held for five years. Since his time in government, Porteous has gone on to head both the Canada Council and the Ontario College of Art and Design.
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