Toronto Star: Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has been unable to participate in decisions related to the federal government’s proposed high-speed rail line after setting up an ethics screen last year due to his partner’s ties to the Crown corporation behind the project.
The screen means the finance minister has had to recuse himself from all discussions related to the Alto proposal for an electric rail line between Toronto and Quebec City — which the Carney government considers “transformative” — because his partner, Anne-Marie Gaudet, became the Crown corporation’s vice-president of environment last August…