Feds should check rules on staffers’ political activities

Treasury Board's 2008 Policies and Guidelines for Ministers' Offices sets out rules by which ministers' exempt staff can work on elections.

A key document used to regulate the circumstances in which Cabinet ministers' political staffers can work on election campaigns is policed by ministers themselves, but a lack of independent policing could leave the door open for some abuses to fly under the radar, says an expert in ministerial st...

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