Things are so bad that even the notoriously docile ethics commissioner has called cash-for-access “unsavoury” and suggested parliament establish more stringent rules.
The NDP tried to take the conflict-of-interest issue to the parliamentary ethics committee Thursday but were shut down by Liberal MPs.
In the House, the case for the defence was so thin that had it turned sideways it would have disappeared. Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc said his party had respected all the rules, making the spurious claim that no government business is ever discussed at such fundraising events.
That reply was greeted with hoots and hollers from the other side of the aisle.
No comments:
Post a Comment