{"id":13719,"date":"2021-11-15T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:14:58","slug":"democracy-watch-files-lawsuit-vs-ethics-commissioners-ruling-that-ignored-pm-trudeaus-clear-violation-in-we-charity-grant-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/democracy-watch-files-lawsuit-vs-ethics-commissioners-ruling-that-ignored-pm-trudeaus-clear-violation-in-we-charity-grant-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Watch files lawsuit vs. Ethics Commissioner’s ruling that ignored PM Trudeau\u2019s clear violation in WE Charity grant approvalDemocracy Watch files lawsuit vs. Ethics Commissioner’s ruling that ignored PM Trudeau\u2019s clear violation in WE Charity grant approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal ethics law prohibits all conflicts of interest and improper decisions, including improper apparent conflict that the Commissioner found Trudeau had<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/b>
Monday, November 15, 2021<\/p>\n\n

OTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch announced that it has filed a court case<\/a> challenging Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s May 2021 ruling<\/a> on Prime Minister Trudeau’s participation in the WE Charity grant approval process because the Commissioner made four key errors in letting Trudeau off even though Trudeau clearly violated the federal government ethics law.<\/p>\n\n

Click here<\/a> to see the Backgrounder summarizing the four key errors in the Ethics Commissioner\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n\n

The case is Federal Court of Appeal file number A-169-21. David Yazbeck of Ravenlaw<\/a> is representing Democracy Watch in the case. The Attorney General of Canada, which (strangely) defends the Ethics Commissioner in such cases, has filed a motion to have the case thrown out.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cEthics Commissioner Dion contradicted himself, tied himself into knots, and cut the federal ethics law into pieces in his ruling letting Prime Minister Trudeau off even though he clearly violated the federal conflict of interest law by participating, and having his office staff participate, in the WE Charity grant approval,\u201d<\/em> said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch. “Ethics Commissioner Dion rolled over like a lapdog and again failed to properly enforce the ethics law, and Democracy Watch is challenging his ruling in court because it sets a very bad precedent that will allow politicians and government officials to take part in future decisions to hand out money to individuals and organizations that have close relations with their families.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<\/strong>
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch
Tel: (613) 241-5179
Cell: 416-546-3443
Email: info@democracywatch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Democracy Watch\u2019s and Government Ethics Campaign<\/a><\/span> and Stop Fraud Politician Spending Campaign<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Federal ethics law prohibits all conflicts of interest and improper decisions, including improper apparent conflict that the Commissioner found Trudeau had<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/b>
Monday, November 15, 2021<\/p>\n\n

OTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch announced that it has filed a court case<\/a> challenging Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s May 2021 ruling<\/a> on Prime Minister Trudeau’s participation in the WE Charity grant approval process because the Commissioner made four key errors in letting Trudeau off even though Trudeau clearly violated the federal government ethics law.<\/p>\n\n

Click here<\/a> to see the Backgrounder summarizing the four key errors in the Ethics Commissioner\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n\n

The case is Federal Court of Appeal file number A-169-21. David Yazbeck of Ravenlaw<\/a> is representing Democracy Watch in the case. The Attorney General of Canada, which (strangely) defends the Ethics Commissioner in such cases, has filed a motion to have the case thrown out.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cEthics Commissioner Dion contradicted himself, tied himself into knots, and cut the federal ethics law into pieces in his ruling letting Prime Minister Trudeau off even though he clearly violated the federal conflict of interest law by participating, and having his office staff participate, in the WE Charity grant approval,\u201d<\/em> said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch. “Ethics Commissioner Dion rolled over like a lapdog and again failed to properly enforce the ethics law, and Democracy Watch is challenging his ruling in court because it sets a very bad precedent that will allow politicians and government officials to take part in future decisions to hand out money to individuals and organizations that have close relations with their families.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

– 30 –<\/p>\n

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<\/strong>
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch
Tel: (613) 241-5179
Cell: 416-546-3443
Email: info@democracywatch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Democracy Watch\u2019s and Government Ethics Campaign<\/a><\/span> and Stop Fraud Politician Spending Campaign<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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