Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland was forced to make an ethics filing under the Conflict of Interest Act in regard to the hiring of the unidentified person.

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While Canadians face ever-increasing costs due to rapidly rising interest rates and inflation, recently disclosed records show Canada’s Department of Finance hired a senior adviser for a top role who is a friend of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

The hire comes amid the Liberal Party under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showing a recent history of nepotism in appointments.

According to records disclosed last week, as per Blacklock’s Reporter, Freeland denied she knew anything about the appointment of her friend to the role.

“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,” Freeland wrote in an ethics filing.

Freeland was mandated by the Conflict of Interest Act to make the ethics filing. However, the Office of Ethics Commission did not disclose the number of candidates being considered for the adviser role.

According to Freeland, she claimed she wanted to avoid any “appearance of preferential treatment or any opportunity to further the private interest of a family friend.”

The name of Freeland’s friend was not mentioned.