'Bundler' Rumoured to be Next U.S. Ambassador

Former envoys to Canada have turned Ottawa into a stepping stone.

Published April 22, 2009

WASHINGTON—The rumour that David Jacobson, a Chicago lawyer and fundraiser for Barack Obama, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin and other Democratic luminaries, might be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada emerged in the Washington Post on April 17.

Jacobson's nomination is purely speculation at this stage and little is publicly known about him except for his disclosure filings as a "bundler"—a...

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