The prime minister’s top adviser told a Commons committee that it was not her duty to warn a cabinet minister that someone in the 2019 election campaign had close ties to Chinese diplomats. Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made the comments while testifying before the Standing Committee on Procedure and…

The prime minister’s top adviser told a Commons committee that it was not her duty to warn a cabinet minister that someone in the 2019 election campaign had close ties to Chinese diplomats. Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made the comments while testifying before the Standing Committee on Procedure and…

Trade Minister Mary Ng will not comment on her association with a Toronto group that the House ethics committee has heard has a record of echoing the Chinese communist regime’s Party line. According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Ng’s office declined to comment on her association with the Confederation of Toronto Chinese Canadian Organizations (CTCCO) after a witness warned about the CTCCO at…

Federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion announced on Feb. 14 he is leaving his post and going into retirement due to “persistent health issues.” Dion made the announcement on the same day he published his report on Liberal MP Greg Fergus, who he found in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act. “It is my hope…

Conservative MPs are criticizing the Liberals for not heeding advice from security officials to steer clear of former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan. “The Liberal Trade Minister [Mary Ng] had former Liberal minister Michael Chan chair her election campaigns,” MP Michael Barrett said in the House of Commons on Feb. 14. “It turns out Mr….

International Trade Minister Mary Ng says she believed that the sole-sourced contracts her office awarded to a friend in 2020 were in compliance with federal conflict of interest laws and that none of her staff ever raised concerns that the contracts might be unethical. “I believed that we were acting in full compliance and that was…

International Trade Minister Mary Ng has pledged through signing a “conflict of interest screen” to never again award a sole-sourced contract to her longtime-friend Amanda Alvaro, the president of a Toronto-based public relations agency. In December 2022, federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said Ng violated the Conflict of Interest Act when her office awarded sole-sourced contracts to Alvaro’s agency, Pomp &…

A parliamentary committee voted Tuesday to examine a recent ethicsruling against International Trade Minister Mary Ng. Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett presented a motion proposing a study at the House of Commons ethics committee, saying Canadians deserve a full accounting of what transpired. The motion passed by consensus, with the study to take place over…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters he’s making sure that “all rules are followed” regarding a lucrative contract reportedly awarded to a communications firm with family ties to a senior staffer of the Liberal’s Minister of Housing and Diversity Ahmed Hussen. On Jan. 19, Global News reported that Hussen’s office has spent $93,050 in constituency…

Maintaining transparency in federal government investments in private businesses is important to avoid “taxpayer blowback”, says International Trade Minister Mary Ng, who made the comments while taking part in a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel discussion. “Canadians care because this is about growing the middle class. It’s about growing jobs. It’s about new, innovative, intangible companies in…