https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadian-heritage-minister-top-bureaucrats-deny-cozy-relationship-between-department-and-facebook-canada
"...The study was requested by opposition parties following media reports that Facebook’s Canadian Head of Policy Kevin Chan had emailed a senior official at Canadian Heritage in early 2020 inquiring about a “promising senior analyst” within the public service that Facebook could hire.
A copy of the emails was obtained via access to information and first reported by Toronto Star.
In his message to heritage department official Owen Ripley, Chan, who previously held top senior advisory roles in the federal government, said that the web giant was offering a “challenging,” “fascinating” and lucrative job within Facebook’s public policy team.
You do not sound like you think this is a grave matter. Do you not find it to be a preoccupying situation?
Chan added that he was open to hiring public servants who took a temporary leave of absence from their department to come work for Facebook. That means that they could later return to their public sector jobs if the department allowed it..."
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