Fed Issue #68 - ethics loophole may prevent Canadians from knowing what gifts Agha Khan gave Trudeau
For some reason #57 is locked so I guess create a new one even though it is the continuation of the Prime Ministers unethical behaviour.
https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...highlight=khan
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trud...cret-1.4594447
An apparent loophole in the federal government's ethics rules may prevent Canadians from ever knowing what gifts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family received from the Aga Khan during their controversial vacation on his private island in the Bahamas, CBC News has learned.
Trudeau's office says he doesn't have to tell Canadians about the Christmas gifts he and the Aga Khan exchanged because he told Canada's ethics commissioner.
However, the ethics commissioner's office says information about those gifts won't be listed in its public registry because Trudeau accepted an unacceptable gift from the Aga Khan.
"The public registry generally includes only acceptable gifts within the meaning of section 11 of the Act," said Margot Booth, a spokeswoman for the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner's office.
"Unacceptable gifts do not trigger the Act's disclosure requirement and would likely be addressed in an examination, as was the case with Mr. Trudeau's vacation stay on the Aga Khan's private island."
The examination by former ethics commissioner Mary Dawson found that Trudeau violated Canada's ethics rules when he and his family accepted the Aga Khan's invitation to vacation over the Christmas holidays in December 2016 on Bell Island in the Bahamas, also known as Bells Cay.
Terrace overlooking the turquoise blue waters of the Exumas chain of Islands in the Bahamas. (CBC)
Dawson ruled that the trip was an unacceptable gift because the Aga Khan had dealings with the federal government, and Trudeau's relationship with him was not close enough to qualify as a friendship.
Dawson's report also revealed that Trudeau and his family exchanged gifts with the Aga Khan but did not disclose the nature or the value of the gifts.
So essentially, he broke one law so he doesn't have disclose the gifts he got while breaking the law ..... with their continued blocking of ethics inquiries on the trip, India (21 hours of voting to block...) etc. etc. I was going to not bother with the ethics violation soap opera but after reading it I just have to say .... huh?????
