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OTTAWA — Liberal MP Greg Fergus wrote a letter to Canada's broadcast regulator to support a television channel's application for mandatory carriage, despite federal guidelines that prohibit parliamentary secretaries from making such interventions.
Written guidance from the federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner says cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries"must not under any circumstances" attempt to intervene in the decision-making process of an administrative tribunal, such as the CRTC, on behalf of any constituent in any riding.
Section 9 of the Conflict of Interest Act prohibits a public office holder — as ministers and parliamentary secretaries are known — from using their position to try to influence decision-making when doing so would improperly further the private interests of another person. Margot Booth, a spokeswoman for ethics commissioner Mario Dion, said Monday that confidentiality requirements prevented her from discussing the Fergus letter.
Fergus said a constituent associated with Natyf TV asked him to provide a letter."I said, 'Of course — of course, I'm happy to write a letter of support for it. So I did."
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