A friend of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been hired by the Department of Finance as a senior adviser, records show. Ms. Freeland said the appointment had nothing to do with her.
“In the exercise of my official duties as Minister of Finance, I recused myself on August 3 from participating in any discussion or decision regarding the department’s process to hire a new senior advisor in the Office of the Deputy Minister,” Ms. Freeland wrote in an ethics filing revealed Aug. 17.
