The Hill Times: As part of a series of changes to the Senate’s ethics code and guidelines that came weeks before Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed a longtime Liberal insider and a Conservative MP to the Upper Chamber, Senators are now permitted to directly partake in political fundraising, among other changes.
“This is in line exactly with the fact that there’s now going to be political appointments again,” said Ian Stedman, a professor of Canadian law and governance at Osgoode Law School who has previously testified before the Senate committee that approves changes to the code…