Trudeau faces a long committee grilling today
told the House finance committee Tuesday that he doesn’t consider hiring Morneau’s daughter for a contract job or paying members of Trudeau’s family to be lobbying.
“When Employment and Social Development Canada asked us to administer the Canada Student Service Grant, we regret that we didn’t recognize how this decision would be perceived,” he said. The prime minister named his Chief of Staff Katie Telford and the Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet as those responsible for administering hisIan Shugart, the new Privy Council clerk who appeared before the finance committee July 21, told members he believes the involvement of the prime minister and finance minister in discussions about the CSSG and WE Charity to be unavoidable.
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