OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s former chief of staff Ben Chin will start a new job as a senior adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week. Before joining Morneau’s office in fall 2017, the veteran political aide worked for former British Columbia premier Christy Clark and former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. Chin, a former TV journalist, will be reporting to Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford starting Friday. Morneau has insisted Chin didn’t do anything inappropriate in discussing the SNC-Lavalin case with Wilson-Raybould’s staff. The company is facing a possible 10-year ban from lucrative federal government contracts because of 2015 bribery and fraud charges.

Source: National Post May 15, 2019 17:10 UTC