The administrator responsible for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ethics screen says the prime minister has had 13 potential conflict of interest cases identified, and an ethics screen was applied to six of those cases, adding that the requirement did not apply to the other seven cases.
An ethics screen, also known as a conflict of interest screen, serves as a formal compliance measure for politicians, aimed at preventing any potential conflicts between their private interests and their responsibilities to the public.
“There are 13 files on which we needed to decide whether or not to apply the screen,” Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia told MPs as he testified before the House of Commons ethics committee on Nov. 19. “Every one of those 13 files, without exception, was confirmed by the ethics commissioner.”…