The former parliamentary ethics watchdog who found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau guilty of violating the Conflict of Interest Act for vacationing on a private island owned by the Aga Khan says the prime minister may have a "blind spot" when it comes to ethical matters.
"One doesn't continue to do the same thing twice," Mary Dawson told CBC News Network's Power & Politics today. "There seems to be a little bit of a blind spot or something there."
Today, NDP MP Charlie Angus wrote Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion again to say that all MPs were warned of the potential for a conflict of interest in April when they were asked to identify organizations that "were ready and willing to hire students who had been displaced because of the COVID crisis."
"If MP offices were made aware of the conflict of interest obligations regarding the the recommendations for small projects, how it it possible that such obligations were not explained to the prime minister and finance minister as they made their decisions over such a massive outlay of funds?" Angus asked in the letter.
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