Canadian ethics commissioner finds Justin Trudeau violated ethics
World Aug 14, 2019 3:06 PM EDT
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s ethics commissioner said Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau improperly pressured the country’s former attorney general to halt the criminal prosecution of a company in a conflict of interest case.
The report comes just before the official start of campaigning for the Oct. 21 general election and it threatens to re-inflame a scandal that rocked the government earlier this year, causing a drop in poll ratings that had since abated.
Ethics commissioner Mario Dion said Trudeau’s attempts to influence the former attorney general and justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, were contrary to the constitutional principle of prosecutorial independence.
Read more at: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/canadian-ethics-commissioner-finds-justin-trudeau-violated-ethics
Okay, this ethics commitee did find he was in violation. I understand that he did not apologize and it is on to the elections apparently.
