What’s missing in Ottawa’s ethics regime: ethics

It’s abundantly clear Parliament needs to take another look at the conflict-of-interest and ethics regime so that the watchdog has proper independence and a real mandate.

Work by the office of Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, pictured ahead of an Oct. 17 House committee meeting, has been ‘maddeningly incremental,’ writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 8, 2017

OTTAWA—For a journalist working in Ottawa, trying to cover issues of ethics was always a frustrating, time-wasting affair. The people appointed to the largely thankless job of overseeing the conduct of federal MPs and cabinet ministers always seemed to inhabit an infinitely mannered, sedate world...

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