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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was found to have broken four provisions of the Conflict of Interest Act by accepting a 2016 Christmas vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island. The ruling made Trudeau the first Prime Minister in Canadian history to break federal ethics rules.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on 25 June 2020 that the government had chosen WE Charity to run the long-promised $912 million Canada Student Service Grant. Following complaints by opposition parties that the Trudeau family had ties to WE Charity, the Ethics Commissioner on 3 July 2020 announced an investigation into Trudeau’s and the government’s decision to have the charity administer the program. Because of the complaints, WE and the federal government decided to “part ways” leaving administration of the grant program to the federal government.
Allegations of bribes being taken by the government of Sir John A. Macdonald in exchange for the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. The affair forced Macdonald to resign as prime minister in November 1873. (Five years later, Macdonald served as prime minister for another 13 years.)
Scandal in the Department of Customs and Excise, leading to a constitutional crisis.
Allegations of the Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Co making substantial contributions to the Liberal Party in return for permission to divert the St. Lawrence River 30 kilometres west of Montréal to generate hydroelectricity.
Canada’s first national political sex scandal.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was accused of “using un-parliamentary language”.
Wait, many people would say legalizing marijuana was long overdue and just a great thing to do and in some respects that might be true but if you ask anyone involved in law enforcement or any company’s EH&S department in the fall of 2018 they might tell you legalizing marijuana was a nightmare. The story goes, Justin was motivated to decriminalize pot because his late brother had a run in with the law for possession years ago (don’t worry, their father Pierre got involved and the charges were dropped) and on Oct 17, 2018 marijuana became legal in Canada. Way to go Justin! Here’s the catch though, there wasn’t and still isn’t a universally accepted method to measure cannabis intoxication which threw the police and Health and Safety groups into a tailspin because cannabis has varying affects on different people and stays in the body for days and weeks after exposure. Justin takes all the credit for making marijuana accessible and then puts the burden of determining how to manufacture, distribute, monitor, evaluate and enforce the drug to regulatory bodies and law enforcement from one end of the country to the other.
