Dion has experience with Trudeau trying to pass the buck. In Trudeau II, the prime minister claimed he could not be “vicariously liable” for the actions of his staff. The Ethics Commissioner dismissed such hogwash, pointing out that everyone on the government side acted “under the direction and authority of the prime minister.”
Dion is unlikely to swallow the line that this is a prime minister who “deeply believes in transparency and accountability.”
Trudeau must now defend himself against accusations that he engaged in preferential treatmentwith the WE charity ; that he failed to recuse himself, and, that he participated in a decision when he should have known that he could be in a conflict of interest.
Given his intimacy with the Act, after repeated engagements with the Ethics Commissioner, the prime minister should indeed have known the perils associated with waving through a near $1 billion contract to his friends.
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