Mr. Speaker, how can the Prime Minister possibly defend Mr. Barton?
Over the last four years, more than 16,000 Canadians have died from opioid overdoses. During that time, Dominic Barton was a global partner at McKinsey, a company that pleaded guilty to criminal charges, including bribing doctors and paying rebates for drug overdoses just to boost the sales of OxyContin.
Again, before the Prime Minister appointed him ambassador to China, was he informed of Mr. Barton’s knowledge of McKinsey’s role in advising Purdue Pharma?