Trudeau Liberals’ predictable appointments scandal could have been prevented

Fully independent commissions need to be established across Canada to do public, merit-based searches for a short list of qualified candidates, and then a multi-party committee should be required to choose from that list.

Through 2017-2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals chose a new information commissioner, privacy commissioner, parliamentary budget officer, auditor general, chief electoral officer and governor general, all key guardians of our democracy, using secretive, cabinet-controlled processes, writes Duff Conacher. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DUFF CONACHER

February 25, 2021

OTTAWA—Throughout 2016, new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers claimed repeatedly they were changing the cabinet appointment system to ensure it was “transparent, open and merit-based.” Unfortunately, every media outlet reported the claims without checking whether they were true. ...

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