Fed Issue #55 - Democracy Watch lables ILLEGAL the Liberal selection of ethics commisioner

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Changes to access to information, limiting debate and question period, not answering questions just repeating blah blah blah ..... and now this....

All while the PM and Finance Minister are under investigation ......


Democracy Watch is crying foul over the selection of Mario Dion as the replacement for outgoing commissioner Mary Dawson and labelling the appointment process that’s unfolded this past week as “illegal”.
http://torontosun.com/news/national/...missioner-pick

If the NDP and Conservatives don’t go to court over this – challenging the fact that they were not consulted and that’s a violation of the Parliament of Canada Act – Democracy Watch is going to file a court case challenging this as an illegal appointment,” said Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, appearing Thursday morning on the SiriusXM Canada program National Post Radio.The watchdog has a history of challenging past governments on government accountability measures. But Conacher says the Liberals have been worse on some fronts than the Harper Conservative and previous Liberal era.

The hastily composed committee meeting was denounced by both Conservative and NDP MPs. “It’s just ragingly incompetent and frustrating and cynical,” NDP ethics critic Nathan Cullen said Tuesday.


At the meeting, Dion would not confirm whether or not he’d pick up where Mary Dawson left off when it came to the ongoing ethics investigations against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.


The idea that a Liberal appointee might drop investigations into Liberal cabinet ministers was troubling to many members of the committee, but Dion’s appointment was still approved in the House of Commons on Wednesday.






“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” - George Orwell

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Rex has a bit to say about our government's "ethics" commissioner.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-...an-removing-it

When there's a Liberal ethics scandal, the 'commissioner' helpfully smothers it

“I’m co-operating with the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner,” has been the rote non-answer for a year now, whenever someone is under fire in the House. The commissioner’s office serves as a kind of half-alibi. Finally, the office itself deflects responsibility from government in a very wide sense. It offloads the crucial matter of ethics to a third party. It gives ministers, members and the prime minister an off-ramp for explaining choices and practices for which they bear primary responsibility. It puts judgment of the conduct of House of Commons members “offshore.” The House itself, its members and ministers and the PM, are the authors and judges of ethics and conflict. The commissioner’s office therefore is not only inefficient, it is also an impediment to the very function it was dubiously manufactured to remedy.