Federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has ended his investigation of former finance minister Bill Morneau's WE Charity-funded trips to Kenya and Ecuador and says he accepts Morneau's contention that he thought he had reimbursed the travel costs, CBC News has learned.
"I accept that you genuinely believed you had paid for the entire cost of both trips, including the portion of the trip that involved the use of non-commercial chartered aircraft," Dion wrote in an Oct. 28 letter — a reference to the private plane the Morneau family used for some of their travel in these developing countries.
While Dion has dropped his probe into the trips, the commissioner made clear that he is still investigating whether Morneau breached the Conflict of Interest Act by failing to recuse himself from cabinet deliberations on the WE Charity summer student grants contract due to his close family ties to the organization.
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