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John Robson: We Have to Demand an End to Government’s Ethical Lapses

John Robson: We Have to Demand an End to Government’s Ethical Lapses
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc, whose sister-in-law Martine Richard has been named interim ethics commissioner, in a file photo. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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The Trudeau administration seems to have “jumped the shark” in choosing as interim ethics commissioner a close relative of a minister already caught violating the Conflict of Interest Act on behalf of… a relative. Columnist Andrew Coyne exclaimed “They are just trolling us now,” and it feels like appalling misjudgment on their part. But in a much larger sense I think modernity has jumped the shark with this whole business of ethics commissioners.
John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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