Law-law land has become la-la land

Ethics aside, the evidence that the prime minister broke the law is weak.

Federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion, pictured during an interview with The Hill Times in 2017. Mr. Dion issued a landmark report last week that said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had broken the Conflict of Interest Act. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHEL CODERRE

August 19, 2019

The prime minister did it again. After the ethics commissioner released his report on SNC-Lavalin, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent the afternoon the day the news broke saying he takes responsibility for the mistakes made, without seemingly considering the possibility that the ethics commissioner...

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