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OTTAWA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act over failing to recuse himself from a cabinet decision to have WE Charity operate a since-cancelled federal student-volunteer program, Canada’s ethics watchdog said Thursday.
In a separate report, federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion found that former finance minister Bill Morneau did violate the rules and should have recused himself.
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He says Morneau “gave WE preferential treatment by permitting his ministerial staff to disproportionately assist it when it sought federal funding.”
Former federal finance minister Bill Morneau and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau has been cleared by the ethics commissioner who was asked to review whether Canada’s prime minister had been in a conflict of interest because of his involvement in funding of the WE charity.
The WE charity, which was founded by Marc and Craig Kielburger, was awarded funding for its Social Entrepreneurship program and chosen to be the administrator of the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG) in the spring of 2020.
Trudeau’s role in making those decisions raised concerns with two MPs Michael Barrett, MP for Leeds–Grenville–Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes and Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins–James Bay. They brought their concerns about conflicts and preferential treatment to Dion.
iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on May 13, 2021 3:01pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former finance minister Bill Morneau on March 22, 2016. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
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, found Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion.
The commissioner’s findings were published Thursday, 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.
The Liberals tabled their first budget in two years, and it was certainly not worth the wait.
Canada is overdrawn, yet Trudeau presented a deficit of more than $350 billion and $100 billion in new spending this year. This is not stimulus spending focused on creating jobs an attempt to entice Canadians with pork-barrel economics, only to become bound by a new vow to Canadians: âtil debt do us part.
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We must accept fact and ignore the political rhetoric.
By next year, Trudeau will have added more debt than all previous Prime Ministers in Canadian history combined. Let that sink in.
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