Trudeau fined in ANOTHER ethics scandal

[Gone_Fishin]

Friday, June 22, 2018

PM Pays $100 Ethics Penalty


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been fined $100 for another breach of Parliament’s ethics code, this time involving a gift from the Premier of Prince Edward Island. Neither the breach nor fine were disclosed until Parliament prepared to adjourn for summer recess.

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Trudeau was censured for failing to disclose a 2017 gift from P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan, two pairs of leather-covered aviator sunglasses valued at some $700. The glasses were donated by an Island manufacturer, Fellow Earthlings Co. of Guernsey Cove, P.E.I.

Under the Conflict Of Interest Act all public office holders must disclose within 30 days any gifts valued at $200 or more. The Prime Minister paid his fine on June 18, nearly a year after skipping the deadline.

Trudeau was photographed wearing the handout eyewear on a subsequent 2017 visit to Vietnam. Staff blamed a clerical mistake for the breach of the Act.

“This was a gift from the Premier of Prince Edward Island,” said Secretary Catenaro. “As a result of administrative error, the proper forms were not completed and the gift was not declared within 30 days.”

Catenaro declined further comment. Premier MacLauchlan’s office did not elaborate. “The Premier is always pleased to showcase locally-made products,” said Mary Moszynski, spokesperson.

The Act permits modest fines up to $500. Penalties are typically nominal. Finance Minister Bill Morneau in 2017 was fined $200 for failing to disclose all his corporate directorships.

James Fitz-Morris, a former CBC reporter now director of communications for the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Affairs, was fined $200 for failing to sell penny stock in a Peruvian potash company. Dan Brien, communications director for the Minister of Public Safety, was fined $100 for ignoring repeated requests from the Ethics Commissioner to sell investments in a U.S. real estate fund. “I told them, ‘Oh, gosh, I’m sorry,'” Brien said in an earlier interview.

Commissioner Mario Dion in a March 7 letter to the Commons ethics committee sought amendments to the Act that would allow for stiffer penalties. “This would help to build trust with the Canadian public,” wrote Dion.

Trudeau’s sunglasses fine came six months after he was cited for accepting a $215,000 vacation on a private Bahamian island owned by the Aga Khan. The Prime Minister apologized for the holiday with family, staff and friends over Christmas 2016.

The Conflict Of Interest Code For MPs prohibits legislators from accepting gifts that “might reasonably be seen to have given to influence them in the exercise of an official power, duty or function.” The Aga Khan Foundation has received $330 million in federal grants since 1981.

“Neither Mr. Trudeau nor his family should have vacationed on the Aga Khan’s private island,” said the December 20 Trudeau Report by the ethics office; “Mr. Trudeau has a number of official dealings relating to the Aga Khan and his institutions where he was exercising an official power, duty or function.”


https://www.blacklocks.ca/pm-pays-100-ethics-penalty/

[Queen K]

The horse is dead. No amount of beating it will bring it back.

[floppi]

Oh Wow! A whole 100 dollar fine for accepting a pair of $700 sunglass. Have you checked out our neighbor's President? He and family have ripped off their country for millions of dollars. He has embaressed and disgraced his country in front of the world with his moral ineptitude, greed, stupidity and corruption. JT looks like a saint compared to Trump, Putin , Kim Jong Un, Maduro or Duterte.

[jimmy4321]

Crying wolf again, keep it up

[Smurf]

Does no one else think that the leader of our country, the person who leads the creation of our laws should not follow them. Should he not be the one setting the example no matter how minor it seems. When I was safety officer and union rep I made sure that I set an example for everyone around me. I felt there was no way I could break rules and then lead the enforcement of them on others. To me ethics is one of the most important things for a person in a position of power. Without ethics what has a leader got. Okay, I know we are dealing with politicians but that does not mean they should get a free pass. It means that we should be that much harder on them. I also don't see why what other leaders do has anything to do with it. They are not our voice to the world. Besides why would we want to lower ourselves to the level of any of the ones mentioned earlier or even be compared to them.

[normaM]

He should have had to pay the full cost or nothing, a hundred dollars is nothing to a millionaire. Fine looking sunnies tho.
Please stop trying to discourage Gone Fishing from his Quest, only a matter of time til he digs up some real dish on T2.
Everyone, even the PM has secrets

[Fancy]

A clerical error is a clerical error - it's been dealt with.

[Smurf]

True but then what was the holiday. That one is pretty hard to forget LOL. This is like following too close, speeding, talking on cellphones, drinking and driving, always lots of excuses but no real reason. JT is supposedly a big boy, he should know and remember if he wants a position with all that responsibility.

[Fancy]

One shouldn't have to micromanage clerical staff. Trudeau is no different than anyone else that depends on others to do what they were hired to do. I think the sunglasses issue is making a mountain out of molehill.

[Smurf]

I understand what you are saying but sometimes people have to just be better. I was on the fire crew after a minor switching error(luckily I was not involved), but that one wrong little button did about 200 million dollars damage. No one lost their job but if he had done it again in 6 months like JT did he would have been looking for a job in a different industry. Errors happen but there would not have been an error if JT had not taken the gift or when he did knowing it was wrong and not normal saw to it that it was handled correctly. To me JT just seems to shrug these things off and go on to the next one, not good judgement as far as I am concerned.

[Walking Wounded]

One shouldn't have to micromanage clerical staff. Trudeau is no different than anyone else that depends on others to do what they were hired to do. I think the sunglasses issue is making a mountain out of molehill.

There to many mole hills to ignore, JT is building his own mountain.

[Omnitheo]

At least when Trudeau didn’t repeatedly close parliament to shrug off rules...

[Centurion]

I am no fan of the Clown Prince of Politics, but this is a big nothing burger. I suspect this might even be manufactured outrage from the liberals in hopes of minimizing more serious scandals by showing how crazy conservatives get over something as trivial as this sunglasses scandal.

[Queen K]

And yet, here we are: another thread on JT.

[Veovis]

A clerical error is a clerical error - it's been dealt with.

How many "clerical errors" does he get a free pass on. It feels more like he and his staff simply find being given things a right not a wrong.

And yet, here we are: another thread on JT.

Sadly he keeps offending people will keep pointing it out, and we get another thread. It could be prevented if he simply behaved like a better person. I agree that this is certainly a small amount and rather immaterial in cost, however there certainly is a stretching list that shows a pattern of behavior.


I'll be honest I did have hopes for the Liberals, but under trust fund PM it's been more of a spending spree and self entitlement.