OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former top adviser, Gerald Butts, is taking on a new role with a New York-based global consulting firm, helping it to build a new practice advising clients on risks related to climate change. Butts says helping the Eurasia Group establish a "geopolitics of climate" practice is one of what he calls a "small number of exciting projects" he's working on, but it's not a permanent new job at this point. Butts resigned as Trudeau's principal secretary in March, amid the furor over the SNC-Lavalin affair. Butts continues to insist neither he nor anyone else in the PMO did anything wrong. Earlier: Gerald Butts spars with NDP MP over SNC-Lavalin issue

Source: Huffington Post May 07, 2019 20:15 UTC