Harper hires a game-changer to run his office  [e-mail this page
to a friend]  The Gazette, Monday, September 27, 2010  Back in
the day when Nigel Wright was a young staffer in the policy shop
of the Prime Minister's Office, I commented on his youthful
appearance, wondering if he was old enough to vote.  "Be nice to
Nigel," commented Bill Fox, then communications director to
Brian Mulroney. "We'll all be working for him some day."  Then a
law student at the University of Toronto, Wright was executive
assistant to Charley McMillan, who was senior policy adviser to
the prime minister. After two years, he returned to Toronto to
finish his degree, picked up a Harvard master's in law, and
joined the mergers and acquisitions practice of Davies Ward in
Toronto.  Since 1997, he has been a top deal-maker for Gerry
Schwartz at Onex Corp., of which he's now managing director.
Along the way, he has made a ton of money, and a legion of
friends, which can't be saidof everyoneonBaySt.  Now he has
accepted Stephen Harper's o