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Did Mario Dion get it right when he exonerated Justin Trudeau, while finding Bill Morneau in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act, in the WE Charity affair?
Based on the evidence the ethics commissioner presented, I would say so.
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Social media’s zombie army of the uninitiated is on the march already, claiming conspiracy, corruption and collusion.
Dion is a Trudeau stooge, they claim, even though he found the prime minister in contravention of the act in the SNC-Lavalin case two years ago.
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Did Mario Dion get it right when he exonerated Justin Trudeau, while finding Bill Morneau in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act, in the WE Charity affair?
Based on the evidence the ethics commissioner presented, I would say so.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Ivison: Why the ethics commissioner got it right with his rulings on Trudeau and Morneau Back to video
Social media’s zombie army of the uninitiated is on the march already, claiming conspiracy, corruption and collusion.
Dion is a Trudeau stooge, they claim, even though he found the prime minister in contravention of the act in the SNC-Lavalin case two years ago.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the WE Charity affair by the federal ethics watchdog but opposition parties aren t willing to let the politically fraught controversy drop just yet.
Ethics commissioner Mario Dion ruled Thursday that Trudeau did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he failed to recuse himself from a cabinet decision last spring to have WE Charity administer a since-cancelled student services grant program.
However, in a separate report, Dion said former finance minster Bill Morneau did break the rules by failing to recuse himself and by showing preferential treatment to the charity, co-founded by his friends Craig and Marc Kielburger.
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In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is synonymous with the idea of arbitrary justice. “Sentence first; verdict afterward,” she pronounced.
The concern among some senior public servants is that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has used Lewis Carroll’s fantasy novel as inspiration for her first budget. Spend first; specify objectives, with measurable metrics to guide performance afterward.
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Nearly a month after the “recovery plan for jobs, growth and resilience” was unveiled, it is becoming the target for resounding criticism from people who have been involved in preparing previous budgets, some of whom say it is more focused on the political fortunes of the Liberal Party than on rebuilding the economy post-pandemic.