Recent ethical lapses by government MPs renew questions of how to ensure such actions cease amid the examples set at the highest level of leadership and the trend toward declining standards of behaviour.
Ethical missteps by parliamentarians is nothing new.
In 1998, the Reform Party hired a mariachi band to play in the Senate foyer to highlight the absence of Liberal Sen. Andrew Thompson, who was living in Mexico.
Conservative Sen. Mike Duffy lived in Ottawa but wrote off expenses by claiming his home province was P.E.I. Although he was acquitted of wrongdoing in 2016 due to hazy ethics rules, the Senate expense scandal fed a desire for change in the electorate….