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Seventeen employees at the federal agency, which is tasked with shepherding big proposals through federal approvals, are seconded from the private sector, according to a list from Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office. The firms lending staff include BMO, RBC and Scotiabank; CN and CPKC railways; Pembina, TC Energy and TransAlta. (The Logic)
Talking point: LeBlanc refused last week to even name the companies involved, let alone the workers, telling a committee of MPs and senators that the opposition would abuse the information and unfairly accuse the workers of conflicts of interest. (For instance, Pembina is the private sector backer of the MPO-blessed Pacific Link pipeline project and it lent lawyer Samuel Denstedt to be the office’s regulatory director.) LeBlanc’s press secretary Eve Loignon-Giroux did not answer a question from The Logic about why the minister reversed himself.
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