Harper likes to keep everything "in the family" as it were.
They may not be blood relatives, but they are all related somehow somewhere.
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon?
More like the 1st degree.
Headline: PMO chief lobbied by Barrick Gold despite personal ties
Pointed questions are beginning to swirl around Nigel Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, and whether he used his position to further the financial interests of friends at Barrick Gold Corp.
Wright met with Barrick Gold twice in May of this year, and the PMO sees nothing wrong with that of course.
Peter Munk, Chairman of Barrick Gold, also a director/trustee of the Aurea Foundation which Wright was also a director until shortly before his appointment to the PMO. That is outlined in that article that is linked, but dig just a little deeper……