PIK Posted May 10, 2018 Report Posted May 10, 2018 The ethics commissioner has rebuffed a request from a Conservative MP to investigate Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc's decision to award a license for the Arctic surf clam fishery to a group with federal Liberal ties. But Conservatives are now asking Mario Dion to take a second look at the deal — because they say they now have evidence that a member of LeBlanc's wife's family had a financial stake in the winning bid. The Conservatives claim that link may have influenced LeBlanc's decision — an suggestion the minister calls "ludicrous." According to a letter obtained by CBC News, Mario Dion told Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty that he was imprecise in the wording of his initial request for an investigation, and cited sections of the conflict of interest code that would not apply to a decision made by a cabinet minister in his capacity as a minister of the Crown. "As the decision taken by Minister LeBlanc was taken in his capacity as a minister rather than in relation to his parliamentary duties, the Code has no application in the present situation," Dion wrote in a letter marked "confidential." "The information you provided is insufficient for my office to initiate an examination in the present circumstances." Dion was recently named to the position by the Liberal government and confirmed by MPs late last year.More... http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ethics-commissioner-surf-clam-1.4655320 It just does not end with these people. His job is to investigate and that is it. Quote Toronto, like a roach motel in the middle of a pretty living room.
eyeball Posted May 10, 2018 Report Posted May 10, 2018 Yawn.... DFO has been enriching party insiders and corporate interests while screwing the little guy and mismanaging fisheries for decades on both coasts of our misbegotten country. It hasn't made a lick of difference whether Liberals or Conservatives were in charge. At least there's no little guy to screw over in the Arctic this time and they can go straight to enriching the rich and influential. Mark my words, the Arctic Surf Clam just became an endangered species. Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
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