Shapiro Proposed as Ethics Commissioner

The government has recommended Bernard Shapiro, a prominent academic and former public servant, as the first independent Ethics Commissioner.

The Commissioner’s mandate will be to administer the code of ethics for MPs as well as ethics guidelines for public office holders. The appointment still has to be vetted by a parliamentary committee and put to a vote in the House of Commons before it is official. Bernard Shapiro was principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2002. Before that he was a deputy minister in the Ontario provincial government.
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