GOLDSTEIN: Liberaler Mangel an Ethik beginnt an der Spitze – Premierminister Justin Trudeau legt den Maßstab für ethisches Verhalten fest, daher ist es angesichts seines Beispiels kaum verwunderlich, dass seine Minister weiterhin gegen das Gesetz verstoßen
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-liberal-lack-of-ethics-starts-at-the-top
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>*How, to cite just one example, could International Trade Minister Mary Ng, back when she was Trudeau’s minister of small business, possibly not have known it was unethical for her to award two government contracts valued at $22,790, without public tender, to a* [company co-founded and owned by a longtime friend, supporter and Liberal adviser](https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-minister-mary-ng-used-your-money-to-reward-her-friend-and-must-be-fired)*?*
>*As then ethics commissioner Mario Dion said at the time, “There is simply no excuse for contracting with a friend’s company.”*
>*Ng apologized claiming her conduct “fell short of my own personal high standards for transparent and accountable conduct,” raising the question of “what standards?”*
>*As for how this could happen, consider the ethical standard, or rather lack thereof, set by Trudeau, who didn’t fire Ng from cabinet, given that he was twice found to have violated the conflict of interest act himself in the* [Aga Khan and SNC-Lavalin affairs](https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-trudeau-doesnt-understand-conflict-of-interest-apparently)*.*
>*To add insult to injury, while Trudeau said he accepted responsibility when Dion ruled he had improperly pressured then attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould to grant a deferred prosecution agreement to SNC-Lavalin, a major Quebec employer, for partisan political reasons, he added:*
>*“I’m* [not going to apologize for standing up for Canadians’ jobs](https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeau-finds-an-apology-he-cant-give) *because that’s my job – to make sure that Canadians, communities and families across the country are supported, and that’s what I will always do.”*
>*That, of course, raised the question of what, exactly, Trudeau was taking responsibility for.*
>*Trudeau did apologize when then ethics commissioner Mary Dawson ruled he had violated the conflict law by accepting a free Bahamas family vacation on the private island of the Aga Khan, when his government was considering taxpayer funding for his charitable foundation.*
>*But he rejected Dawson’s key finding that he was not, as he claimed, a personal friend of the Aga Khan, under which the vacation would have been allowed, again raising the question of what was he apologizing for?*
>*Dion ruled in another report, this time on the WE Charity controversy, that Trudeau was spared a third negative finding under the conflict of interest act only because the law is so poorly written that it doesn’t address perceived conflicts of interest.*
>*Since their boss, Trudeau, treats the findings of the conflict of interest commissioner so cavalierly, why wouldn’t his cabinet ministers, and Liberal MPs, treat it the same way, as evidenced by their failures to comply with the act?*
>*Simply put, no conflict of interest law setting ethical standards for federal politicians will be effective if the prime minister of the country doesn’t take it seriously.*
When an organization is rotten and corrupt, it starts at the top of said organization. Cabinet ministers and MPs in the Liberal party feel comfortable breaking ethics laws and engaging in bad behavior because they know that Justin Trudeau won’t do anything about it and that he approves of it as long as he can find a way to potentially throw someone under the bus if need be.
Remember when Canadians and Reddit were outraged by $16 Orange juice?
Liberals are rotten to the core, starting from Justin Trudeau
Hear hear! Bring back morals to Canadian leadership. (If they ever existed).
Even if agreed with the liberals policies, their incompetence and corruption precludes me for ever voting for them again until the current batch is totally purged.
Sidebar but the hypocrisy of Trudeau promising the most transparent government ever and then having this endless barrage of scandals would be comic if it wasn’t actually happening in my country
Worst government Canada ever had
What’s not emphasized enough is that Justin Trudeau’s government **CUT THE SALARY** of the ethics commissioner, with no explanation. This makes it very hard to attract/retain competent and qualified candidates: [https://carleton.ca/sppa/2023/wanted-new-federal-ethics-commissioner-salary-110000-less-than-the-others-were-paid/](https://carleton.ca/sppa/2023/wanted-new-federal-ethics-commissioner-salary-110000-less-than-the-others-were-paid/)
>The Liberal government is cutting the pay of the next person hired to oversee its ethical issues by more than $110,000 per year, even though the outgoing ethics commissioner recently criticized the government for not taking ethics “more seriously.”
“It’s just going to lower completely the status of the office, not because of the salary, but because of the likely persons that are going to be looking to apply for that position,” Shepherd said. “The effect may be that the **office will be less effective than it was before** with a more junior person at the helm.”
He also said it sends the signal that the government is giving even less value to the office than it did before.
Ethics is not a priority for this government.
Well he has had the most scandals than any other PM in the history of Canada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_Canada