NDP, Bloc Québécois call on government to reinstate ethics commissioner's previous salary cdnpoli
By law, eligible candidates for the job must either be former judges or members of a federal or provincial board, commission or tribunal with relevant experience.
During Dion tenure, he found five senior Liberals had violated ethics laws, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, cabinet ministers Dominic LeBlanc and Mary Ng, former finance minister Bill Morneau and parliamentary secretary Greg Fergus.Article content “The Act has been there for 17 years for God’s sake, so maybe the time has come to do something different so that we don’t keep repeating the same errors. After 17 years, maybe we should realize that something is not working,” he said.
According to Green, the drop in salary “almost feels retaliatory on the comments of the previous commissioner.” When asked why the government decided to drop the salary significantly, Privy Council Office spokesman Pierre-Alain Bujold said the commissioner’s salary is at the discretion of cabinet and was established as GCQ-7, though he did not say as of when.that ultimately led to Dion’s hiring made no reference to a GCQ-7 classification and stated the salary was “under review.”
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