Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who is under an ethics screen to prevent him from being involved in his government's extensive dealings with J.D. Irving, Ltd., recently stayed overnight at the home of the Irving family patriarch, highlighting the close and often controversial relationship between Mr. LeBlanc and the wealthy New Brunswick family. Mr. LeBlanc and his wife, Jolène Richard, slept over at the mansion of James D.
(Jim) Irving at the end of a mid-December Christmas party that the billionaire held for the province's business and political elite, according to a source with knowledge of the guest list. Mr. LeBlanc was public safety minister at the time. Mr. LeBlanc's ties to the Irvings have come under scrutiny in the past and resurfaced as he took over the powerful role in the Finance Ministry and prepares for a possible Liberal Party leadership run if close friend Justin Trudeau steps down. The source said the party was held in the town of Rothesay outside of Saint John, where many of the Irving family live. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source, who was not authorized to discuss the private affair. Mr. LeBlanc, a key political lieutenant and boyhood friend to Mr. Trudeau, set up an arrangement with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner in 2016 to screen him from any dealings with J.D. Irving, Ltd. and its affiliates and subsidiaries. The conflict-of-interest screen would not block him from attending intimate gatherings with the New Brunswick corporate tycoon. “My friend Jim Irving, the New Brunswick business guy, teased us. He said there’s more snow in front of the plow now,” Mr. LeBlanc said in a podcast interview last week, referring to the very poor polling and fundraising metrics that the Liberal Party is contending with. Mr. Irving is the president and chief executive officer of the Irving family’s vast corporate network that has interests in numerous industrial sectors, including agribusiness, lumber and shipbuilding
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