A Conservative MP is questioning whether Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc recused himself prior to cabinet voting in favour of appointing his sister-in-law as the interim federal ethics commissioner.
“The supposed recusal of confirmed ethics lawbreaking Minister from the decision to appoint his sister in-law as the ethics commissioner was made AFTER the decision to appoint her?” Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett wrote on Twitter on April 6.
“Who investigates? Does the new commissioner just ask him about it at Easter brunch?”
Barrett was referencing a report by Blacklock’s Reporter published the same day citing a Commons ethics committee filing and Privy Council Office (PCO) record suggesting that LeBlanc did not recuse himself prior to cabinet’s vote to select his sister-in-law Martine Richard as interim ethics commissioner….