OTTAWA — Ethics screens are little more than loopholes for politicians to cover themselves while sidestepping ethical compliance, an ethics watchdog said Wednesday.
One day after federal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he officially recused himself from discussions involving the Alto high speed rail project, Democracy Watch Founder Duff Conacher said “ethics screens” like the one minister created for himself are little more than “secretive smokescreens” that don’t prevent cabinet ministers from ethically-questionable situations.
