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North Island-Powell River MP pleased with investigation into finance minister

Rachel Blaney says she’s pleased Bill Morneau is being investigated.

Late last week the federal ethics commissioner said she’d be looking into the finance minister’s involvement in Bill C-27. If passed, it would affect pensions sold by his family company Morneau Shepell.

The North Island-Powell River MP says it’s a trust issue:

When the bill was introduced Morneau still had about $21 million in shares which he put in a numbered corporation, rather than a blind trust. Blaney says that’s not good enough:

Critics are calling the Bill C-27 issue a conflict of interest.

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