Social media use, friendly connections under scrutiny as MPs begin overdue conflict of interest code review

Though social media was not specifically part of his recommendations, Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion emphasized that any contraventions of the code that would arise would be 'irrespective of the medium.'

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion presented his six recommendations for improving the MP Conflict of Interest Code to the House Affairs Committee Feb. 3, which included making changes to the definition of friends and family for the purposes of conflict of interest violations.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

February 9, 2022

The use of social media and who really counts as a friend are among the issues MPs have started to grapple with as they dive in to the overdue review of their conflict of interest rules. With MPs having hundreds of thousands or more followers on social media, there’s the concern that “they can ...

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