“I am not a friend” of Trudeau, ex-McKinsey head Dominic Barton says amid contract probe

Dominic Barton, a former ambassador and past director of consulting firm McKinsey, said on Wednesday he had no involvement in federal government contracts awarded to the firm in recent years and denied having any close relationship with the prime minister or other key Liberal cabinet members.

Barton was grilled by the House of Commons government operations and estimates committee that is studying the 24 contracts worth $104.6 million that federal officials say have been awarded to McKinsey since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was elected in 2015.

Barton pushed back on MPs' suggestions that he is a personal friend of Trudeau or other top ministers like Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and former finance minister Bill Morneau, who was with Barton on the growth council.

“No, I’m not a friend, and I have a professional relationship,” he told the committee. “I respect him, I think he respects me, I don’t have his personal phone number and I haven’t been in a room alone with him.”

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