The Conservative Party is calling on the House of Commons ethics watchdog to launch an investigation into whether Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne breached ethics rules regarding his partner’s involvement in a federal government-funded high speed rail project.
In a letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein, Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett made the case for an investigation, pointing out that the company heading the project, Alto, is to receive millions of dollars in funding from the budget that Champagne introduced last fall and has defended in both the House of Commons and committee.
