The company was founded by Tom Pitfield, a childhood friend of Trudeau s, who served as the Liberal party s chief digital strategist during the 2015 and 2019 election campaigns.
The Globe and Mail reported last month that MPs’ expenditure reports showed most of the Liberal caucus had paid money through their office budgets to the company, which has also been hired to provide digital services to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Trudeau has said caucus members use Data Sciences for their constituency work and he and the party both say there is a complete separation between political and parliamentary business.
In his letter to Dion, which Barrett shared on social media,he asked the commissioner to investigate Trudeau s role in the contracts to see if he violated the conflict of interest code for members of Parliament.
Ethics commissioner reviewing request to investigate Trudeau over payments to friend s firm
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(Ottawa) Les conservateurs réfléchissent à la prochaine étape de leur plan visant à obtenir la tenue d’une enquête sur des paiements versés par des bureaux de circonscription de députés libéraux à une entreprise dirigée par un ami du premier ministre Justin Trudeau. Le temps commence à manquer pour mener un tel exercice qui pourrait être interrompu par le déclenchement d’élections fédérales. Publié le 13 juillet 2021 à 19h26 Mis à jour à 21h31 ✓ Lien copié Stephanie Taylor La Presse Canadienne