Couillard changes chief of staff; Dufresne is out in top office shakeup

One year from the next election, Premier Philippe Couillard has changed his chief of staff as part of a shakeup in the government’s senior ranks.
Jean-Louis Dufresne, who has been with Couillard since the start of the Liberal’s 2014 mandate, has resigned and will be replaced by Jean-Pascal Bernier, 38, who had been Dufresne’s second-in-command on the bridge.
Couillard announced the news in a statement issued Tuesday.
Couillard had nothing by praise for Dufresne, a personal frie