MPs on Parliament’s ethics committee examining Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Christmas holiday in Jamaica have voted to take a closer look at the rules that govern gifts and travel that members of Parliament are allowed to accept.
Committee members voted to call interim Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein to testify. While the motion refers to the rules regarding gifts, vacations and travel, it doesn’t prevent MPs from grilling the ethics commissioner on Trudeau’s trip to Jamaica and whether his office intends to investigate it.
The committee rejected a bid by Conservative MP Michael Barrett to call on the government to produce documents about the
