Justin Trudeau is adding two new advisers to his inner circle — both with B.C. Ben Chin, who has been serving as chief of staff to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, is being pulled in to serve as senior adviser to Trudeau, as has been widely expected for a couple of months now. ( Cole Burston / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO )Chin is a former journalist who has worked at Queen’s Park and as an aide to former B.C. minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, which set off the SNC-Lavalin saga that dominated headlines for the first few months of the year. Chin was identified by Wilson-Raybould as one of the advisers who applied the earliest pressure to her to give SNC-Lavalin a deferred prosecution agreement.

Source: thestar May 14, 2019 17:53 UTC