Ethics watchdog’s SNC-Lavalin report a replay of Trudeau, Liberal Party’s greatest rule-flouting hits

The problem for Justin Trudeau is this pattern of behaviour plays into the Liberal Party of Canada’s greatest vulnerability with the electorate: the sense that Liberals act in their own self-interest. Rules be damned.

Former ethics commissioner Mary Dawson, left, found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the country’s conflict of interest law in 2017, a groundbreaking finding repeated by her successor, Mario Dion, right, in August. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

August 21, 2019

OTTAWA—I don’t want to moralize, and I don’t want to be partisan as it relates to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent second sanctioning by the federal ethics commissioner. It is now a simple fact that this prime minister has twice been called out by two different commissioners for violat...

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