Internal Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc told a parliamentary committee that the government’s own conflict-of-interest screens are enough to keep private-sector workers seconded to the Major Projects Office from doing anything improper. Neither the people nor the employers lending them to the government will be named, he said. “I think there’s a danger in saying that Company X provided Employee Y. Then there’ll be a whole artificial, fabricated got-you moment,” LeBlanc said, citing his own work as a former opposition MP. (The Logic)

Talking point: The office responsible for shepherding large and complex projects through federal approvals has 41 staff on loan, including from provincial governments and certain federal regulators, the MPO’s chief executive, Dawn Farrell, testified. That’s about a third of its people, she said, and all must follow federal rules. “They have to disclose if there are any potential conflicts, and they cannot work on projects that they would be conflicted on,” she said.

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