CBC: In a letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein, Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett made the case for an investigation, pointing out that the budget that Champagne introduced last fall and has defended in both the House of Commons and committee outlines millions of dollars for Alto.
“The prospect of a finance minister making decisions as part of the federal government’s budgetary process which present distinct benefits and advantages for his partner and her employer — and acting and voting in Parliament to give those effect — is a very troubling development,” Barrett wrote in the letter released on Tuesday.
“An investigation is absolutely essential here, including to validate the existence and application of his unpublished — and only now revealed — ‘conflict of interest filter’ in addition to all of his parliamentary engagement on this matter.”…