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Michael Cooper

Conservative on Ethics 2026-10-30

92 words · 4 sentences · 4 clauses

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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 83 wordsthis week at committee, it was revealed that the Ethics Commissioner has been left in the dark regarding the administration of the Prime Minister’s ethics screen.¹ Decisions around the invocation of the screen are being made entirely in secret by the Prime Minister’s top two advisers.² Records of these decisions are not being shared with the commissioner, meaning that the commissioner has no idea if the Prime Minister is in fact being screened out of decisions where he has a conflict of interest.³ The question · 9 wordsWhy are these records being withheld from the commissioner?

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Signal · 100

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Respect · 100

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Claims · 3

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1“the Ethics Commissioner has been left in the dark regarding the administration of the Prime Minister’s ethics screen”Testimony at committee this week revealed that the Ethics Commissioner has been left in the dark regarding the administration of the Prime Minister’s ethics screen.search
2“Decisions around the invocation of the screen are being made entirely in secret by the Prime Minister’s top two advisers”Decisions on when the Prime Minister’s ethics screen is invoked are made entirely in secret by the Prime Minister’s top two advisers.search
3“Records of these decisions are not being shared with the commissioner”Records of the ethics screen invocation decisions are not being shared with the Ethics Commissioner.search

Analysed on 2026-10-31