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One of the world’s largest consulting firms will not say whether the man who is now Canadian ambassador to China was aware that the company had a role in advising how to boost sales of OxyContin and other highly addictive drugs when he was head of the firm.
Dominic Barton was global managing partner of McKinsey & Co. from 2009-2018, a period during which the New York-based consulting firm advised Purdue Pharma on ways to bolster sales of OxyContin.
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Senator Marco Rubio, chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, is drawing attention to an earlier chapter in the life of Dominic Barton, now Canada’s ambassador to China, as the U.S. politician presses giant global consulting firm McKinsey and Co. on its business ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and state-owned enterprises.