Poloz appointments prove need to fill gap in ethics rules

No one can claim that Stephen Poloz broke any rules by accepting appointments to corporate boards right after leaving the Bank of Canada. No cooling-off period applied to his situation, and therein lies the problem.
Stephen Poloz was appointed to the boards of Enbridge and CGI within a week of leaving his post as the governor of the Bank of Canada in June.
Sooner or later every government runs into ethical controversy, and there is no shortage of high-profile ethical issues on the prime minister’s plate these days. They include the former finance minister’s failure to recuse from the WE decision, the PM’s own failure to recuse from the WE decisi...

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