{"id":2904,"date":"2018-12-07T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=2904"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:26","slug":"jon-wiseman","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/people\/jon-wiseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Wiseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon Wiseman (he\/him) is a Special Assistant (Ontario) to Canada\u2019s Minister of Veterans Affairs&nbsp;and Associate Minister of National Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon previously served as Legislative Assistant to Adam Vaughan, Liberal MP for Spadina-Fort York and&nbsp;Parliamentary Secretary for Housing during the 43rd Parliament. In the 42nd Parliament, Jon served as Legislative&nbsp;Assistant to Bill Casey, Liberal MP for Cumberland-Colchester and Chair of the Standing Committee on Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon also served as Field Manager for Adam Vaughan\u2019s successful re-election campaign in 2019. Working&nbsp;collaboratively with a strong campaign team and volunteers, the campaign managed to win all but one poll in&nbsp;Spadina\u2014Fort York, increasing the Liberal vote share from the 2015 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon previously served as Policy Chair of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario), working collaboratively with riding associations across the province to shepherd progressive grassroots policy through a prioritization process and, eventually, to the Liberal Party\u2019s biennial convention and electoral platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining the Riddell Program, Jon completed an honours undergraduate degree in Political Studies and&nbsp;History at Queen\u2019s University. He was heavily involved in student organizations, including as Commissioner of&nbsp;Internal Affairs at the Alma Mater Society and Co-Chair of the Political Studies Departmental Student Council. He&nbsp;was also on the Executive of the Queen\u2019s University Liberal Association and participated in multiple Queen\u2019s&nbsp;Model Parliaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI was first told about the Riddell Program from a friend in a previous cohort. After doing some research and heeding&nbsp;their advice, I applied to the program. It was a decision I do not regret in the slightest. The MPM is an incredibly unique&nbsp;program that immerses one in all aspects of political life. From learning best practices in advocacy to the&nbsp;minutiae of staffing a Minister, you learn it all from incredibly experienced faculty. Being in a small classroom setting&nbsp;with like-minded cross-partisan colleagues greatly strengthened the in-class experience. I would strongly&nbsp;recommend this program to anyone interested in politics, government relations, advocacy, or elections.\u201d<\/em> &#8211; Jon Wiseman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Revision: Jan 28, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3960,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jon","cu_people_last_name":"Wiseman","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[34,51],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2904","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-alumni-graduated-2014-2018"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Special Assistant, Office of the Minister of Veterans Affairs","cu_people_degree":"MPM\/18","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2904\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}