Ontario's Liberal government has nixed the idea of using legislation to ban chiefs of staff and other behind-the-scenes political decision makers from attending fundraisers, as they prepare to prohibit politicians from doing the same.
Last month, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said he had not ruled out extending the proposed fundraiser ban to senior political staff, but there is no language to that effect in the new amendments, which the Opposition decried as a huge loophole.
"What started all this, of course, is cash for access here in the Liberal government," said Progressive Conservative Vic Fedeli. "The fact that today's amendments show that they're still going to allow the chiefs of staff, that's egregious. They're just turning the cash for access from the politicians to the Liberal government's chiefs."
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