Rex Murphy: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should hire a director of ethics and oversight to vet potential conflicts of interest, according to pollsters Greg Lyle and Frank Graves, who were quoted in the Hill Times.
I cannot see why not. After all, there must be a few dollars still floating around now that the Kielburger brothers will not be getting their multi-million dollar commission and all the ducats that were to be sprinkled out to eager young (paid) volunteers now float free for other purposes. There should at least be enough to supply a salary for a personalized ethics minder and the staff for what will be — if past behaviours are anything to go by — a demanding, and possibly even full time, position.
The one question is where this would leave the ethics commissioner. The answer comes down to this nearly intractable question: is it possible to have too many ethics commissioners when a Liberal government is in power?
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