Ethics Clause ‘Embarrassing’

Retiring Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson says Parliament should have enacted a 2013 Senate bill amending the Conflict Of Interest Act. The private Liberal bill sought to repeal a loophole that allows legislators to conceal large gifts from lobbyists or contractors they consider personal friends: “It’s sort of embarrassing.”

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