The Ottawa school for ethics dunces
The federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, Mario Dion, announced this week that he will retire on Feb. 21. He’s leaving five years into a seven-year mandate because of health problems. But as he heads out the door, he has something he wants Canadians to hear.
Given that the only governments Mr. Dion oversaw over the last five years were those of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it’s fair to say that his parting shot can be interpreted as one more condemnation of the Liberals’ chronic lapses. The case that prompted Mr. Dion’s suggestion involved a Liberal parliamentary secretary who was somehowforbidding him from intervening with a quasi-judicial tribunal on behalf of someone’s private interests.
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