…Shocking news out of the ethical motive office today: “Raitt.broke no regulatomic number 85on with fundwage increaser: morality Commish.”

The ethics commissioner hit another one out of the park! She’s the Halak to the conservativist cyberspace Or whichever metaphor you prefer.

Federal labor minister Lisa Raitt.didn’t interruption any regulation last autumn when her riding association let a lobbyist and a Toronto port authorization staff member organize a fundraiserbattle of Interest and ethics commissioner Blessed Virgin Dawson says.

The event, held at a swanky Toronto restaurant, was to raise money for Raitt’s conservativist riding association, but not for Raitt herself. opposition MPS filed ill with Dawson after discovering Michael McSweeney, a lobbyist with the cement association of Canada, and Janet MacDonald, who plant for the president of the Toronto port Authority, helped organize the fundraiser MacDonald was Raitt’s supporter when Raitt was the head of the port authorisation McSweeney’s organization had lobbied Raitt prior to the fundraiser.

Dawson found the political contributions, volunteer time and resource provided were given to the Halton conservativist Association, not to Raitt. She also found MacDonald volunteered out of her friendly relationshipwith Raitt, so even if her volunteer time was given to Raitt instead of to the association, it would have fallen under an elision to the regulation.

Details, details The Halton conservativist Association, after all, really has nothing to do with Raitt. Doesn’t help her at all. What a soot our ethical motive regime is if such obvious connection cannot be drawn. minimal brain dysfunction such spread to the list of measuring that need to be looked at. The ethics commissioner herself is helpfully pointing out how hapless she is in the face of the conservativist onslaught of ethical challenges. Once again. She demand a whole new slate of regulation to business deal with these people

The kicker, that the staffer at the Toronto port Authority, where Raitt used to be the top dog executive, was organizing the fundraiser out of friendhip. It almost warms your bosom that such friendly gesture are enabled in our political fundraising cosmos Ministers! Find your friends at the federal federal agency and get them to the phones! The ethics commissioner is no obstacle Once again.

The Lobbying commissioner may yet weigh in on this. This piece springiness you a sense of the lobbying issue involved.

Maybe kink mercer should do a measure Maher inspired “New Rules” section on all this material The ethics commissioner is portion up a peck of material, just sayin’…