The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether a group’s challenge of a federal ethics report on Justin Trudeau’s involvement in a decision about WE Charity can proceed.
In May 2021, then-federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion concluded that Trudeau, prime minister at the time, did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he participated in a decision about WE Charity, which operated in Canada and abroad.
The group Democracy Watch applied soon after for judicial review of Dion’s ruling in the Federal Court of Appeal.
Federal lawyers argued the application should be tossed out—in part because the Conflict of Interest Act bars judicial review concerning questions of fact and law….