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By iPolitics. Published on May 13, 2021 6:04pm
AstraZeneca's vaccine (Wikimedia Commons photo)
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We begin with ethics commissioner Mario Dion, who has found that former Finance minister Bill Morneau broke ethics law by failing to recuse himself from discussions about awarding WE Charity the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG), but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not. The commissioner’s findings were published today, the result of an investigation requested by four MPs on July 10, after the Trudeau government outsourced the $500-million CSSG — a program to pay students for volunteering — to WE Charity, an organization with which the Trudeau and Morneau families had close financial ties for years.