Privy Council clerk Michael Sabia is “following all applicable rules” after staying on the board of Canada’s biggest charitable foundation for a year while leading the federal public service, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s spokesperson Sofia Ouslis told The Logic. As The Logic reported Monday, Sabia erected no conflict-of-interest screen to keep him away from information or decisions that might affect the foundation, after the federal ethics commissioner said he didn’t need one. (The Logic)

Talking point: The standards in the Conflict of Interest Act the commissioner enforces are generally limited to office-holders using their public jobs to further private interests; The Logic had also asked whether Sabia’s dual roles created a problem for public servants—Sabia’s subordinates—dealing with the Mastercard Foundation, and how he could keep knowledge of the government’s economic plans from influencing his work on the foundation’s asset management arm, which Ouslis did not directly address.