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on February 16, 2023 in World News

Either increase ethics fines big time, or just abolish the ethics commissioner post

By Anthony Furey There’s the growing sense that an ethics violation on the part of a Canadian politician is now a meaningless thing. It wasn’t always this way, but it’s become so under the Trudeau Liberal government. On Tuesday, federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion found Liberal MP Greg Fergus guilty of contravening ethics laws by signing a letter of support for a private broadcasting company submitting a licence application to the CRTC. The judgment reads, in part, that: “Dion determined that Mr. Fergus sought to improperly further Natyf Inc.’s private interests because he intervened in the decision-making process of...

By Anthony Furey There’s the growing sense that an ethics violation on the part of a Canadian politician is now a meaningless thing. It wasn’t always this way, but it’s become so under the Trudeau Liberal government. On Tuesday,...

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