Liberal donor, ex-nomination candidate named to Via Rail board

Jonathan Goldbloom, who has donated $20,000 to the Liberal Party of Canada and ran unsuccessfully to be a federal Liberal candidate in Quebec in 2014, has been named among nine directors appointed or reappointed this month to Via Rail's board.

The NDP ethics critic is calling the government's appointment of Jonathan Goldbloom, pictured, 'blatantly partisan,' while a spokesperson for the prime minister's department said he was appointed following an 'open, transparent, and merit-based selection [process].'Photograph courtesy of Jonathan Goldbloom's Twitter

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

June 29, 2017

A new government appointee to the Via Rail board has donated about $20,000 to the Liberal Party of Canada and its affiliates, including to his own campaign when he unsuccessfully ran for the federal Liberal nomination for a Quebec riding in 2014.

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