Rob Shaw: Concerns over MNP worm their way through B.C.'s agriculture ministry

The company at the centre of a conflict of interest probe over CleanBC grants also helped award government grants to companies it represents in the agriculture ministry.

At a minimum, government should enact policy changes to either administer grant programs internally or ensure private companies can’t work both sides of the transaction, he said. At one point, after a meeting with Alexis herself in 2023, Sihota emailed ministry officials directly to distribute an MNP-authored PowerPoint. An MNP official in the email chain thanked Sihota for the chance to work on the project.

But MNP can, in its own words, “guide” companies on how to apply for grants it administers, even when it can’t write the applications directly. The company’s head of agriculture in B.C., AJ Gill, said so on the Farms in BC podcast one month ago.“Some of them we can’t work directly, the producers have to apply for them, but we can guide them and let them know what it’s all about. And there’s others we can get involved and often apply for.

“Maybe technically MNP is not writing the grant … but in the world of technicalities and questionable business approaches, it’s a mess.”

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