The Canada Investment Bank was another of the advisory council’s inventions, although that institution was quickly beset by scandals about secret bonuses to directors and its general uselessness. The headlines this week – Ottawa reveals plan to welcome 500,000 immigrants per year by 2025 - come from Barton’s blue-chip advisory council on big ideas. The tatters of Barton’s Canadian legacy do not feature prominently in When McKinsey Comes to Town, but they’re worth noticing here, if only in passing. When Trudeau first drew the adulation of the rich and famous at the World Economic forum in Davos - the heyday of Trudeau’s fancy-socks phase - it was Barton who introduced him. It was Barton who served as chair of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, and McKinsey provided the council’s research and resources - for free. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. While Trudeau’s infatuation with China was already a family tradition, Barton’s formulae situating Chinese markets and money as the keys to Canada’s prosperity were built into Trudeau’s program long before he was prime minister: it was all right there and ready to go when he was running for the Liberal Party leadership. It was during Barton’s decade as global managing director for McKinsey and Associates that the company became notorious for serving kleptocrats and oligarchs from Moscow to Riyadh and from Beijing to Johannesburg. But it is a new book by New York Times reporters Michael Forsythe and Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm, that casts Barton in an even clearer light. He didn’t, as an exhaustive investigation undertaken by the Wall Street Journal, published last week, amply proves. The next issue of Ottawa Citizen Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.National Capital Region's Top Employers.

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