Carolyn Stewart-Olsen was born on July 27,1946 and is a retired Conservative senator from New Brunswick.
11 Facts About Carolyn Stewart-Olsen
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen was formerly Senior Advisor and Director of Strategic Communication in the Prime Minister's Office of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen, a registered nurse by profession, had a twenty-year nursing career including ten years as an emergency room nurse New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec before being appointed Head Nurse for the Ambulatory Care Department at Ottawa's Grace Hospital in 1986.
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen later became Nursing Manager for the Emergency, Recovery Room, Ambulatory Care, and CSR departments at Carleton Place Hospital.
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In 1993, Carolyn Stewart-Olsen became a volunteer in the communications office of the Reform Party of Canada under Preston Manning, newly settling in as a major party in the House of Commons.
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen later came on staff as a media officer or press aide until 2000, serving through the creation of its first successor party, the Canadian Alliance and the leadership of Stockwell Day, who defeated Manning for the Alliance leadership.
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen then went to work for Deborah Grey, the first Reform MP and a Manning loyalist, and in 2001, she was identified as a press aide to the Democratic Representative Caucus, a group of dissidents including Grey who broke with the party under Day's leadership.
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When Harper became prime minister after the 2006 federal election, Carolyn Stewart-Olsen moved with him into government.
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The fact that Harper chose to keep Carolyn Stewart-Olsen and eject Stairs was seen last night as largely a cosmetic answer to the deeper issue of his public-relations problems and Harper's distrust of anything related to the media.
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen was part of a three-member steering committee in charge of the Senate committee on the internal economy.
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Carolyn Stewart-Olsen retired from the Senate on July 27,2021, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age.