Interim ethics commissioner with family ties to minister steps down
Martine Richard will stay on in a senior role in the ethics commissioner's office
Martine Richard was appointed to the role in March for what was supposed to be a period of six months. The last commissioner, Mario Dion, retired in February.
But Richard has stepped away from the role she was appointed to only weeks ago, according to a press release from the ethics commissioner's office released on Wednesday.
"Martine Richard has informed the Privy Council Office (PCO) that she will no longer be serving as interim commissioner," the statement said.
Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and her appointment caused an uproar among the opposition parties, particularly the Conservatives.
Conservative MPs questioned Richard's appointment, pointing out that a number of Liberal MPs — including LeBlanc — have run afoul of ethics rules in the past.
Liberals defended the appointment, saying Richard has held a senior position in the ethics commissioner's office for years and was hired when Stephen Harper was prime minister.
On Tuesday, the committee on access to information, privacy and ethics agreed to study Richard's appointment over the course of three hearings, and to invite her and LeBlanc to testify.
Wednesday's statement said Richard will stay on in a senior position with the commissioner's office.
With files from The Canadian Press
Martine M. Richard
Canadian Conflict of Interest Network
In March 2010, the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner accepted a coordination role in the Canadian Conflict of Interest Network (CCOIN), which includes federal, provincial and territorial commissioners. The Office is responsible for gathering and disseminating within this network information and materials acquired or developed in the various jurisdictions within Canada.
Members of CCOIN are listed below. Please note that not all of the websites below are available in both official languages.
Martine Richard, Interim Commissioner
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
Parliament of Canada
22nd Floor, 66 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Phone: 613-995-0721
Fax: 613-995-7308
info@cie.parl.gc.ca
Website:
ciec-ccie.parl.gc.ca
Me Pierre Legault
Senate Ethics Officer
Thomas D’Arcy McGee Building
90 Sparks Street, Room 526
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5B4
Phone: 613-947-3566
Fax: 613-947-3577
1-800-267-7362 (toll-free)
cse-seo@sen.parl.gc.ca
Website: www.parl.gc.ca/seo-cse
Hon. Marguerite Trussler, K.C.
Ethics Commissioner
9925 109 Street NW, Suite 1250
Edmonton, Alberta
T5K 2J8
Phone: 780-422-2273
Fax: 780-422-2261
info@ethicscommissioner.ab.ca
Website: www.ethicscommissioner.ab.ca
Hon. Victoria Gray, K.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
421 Menzies Street, First Floor
Victoria, British Columbia
V8V 1X4
Phone: 250-356-0750
Fax: 250-356-6580
conflictofinterest@coibc.ca
Website: www.coibc.ca
Jeffrey Schnoor, K.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
303-386 Broadway
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 3L6
Phone: 204-948-1018
Fax: 204-948-3556
mbcoic@legassembly.mb.ca
Website: www.mbcoic.ca
Mr. Charles Murray
Acting Integrity Commissioner
Edgecombe House
736 King Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 5H1
Phone: 506-457-7890
Fax: 506-444-5224
coi@gnb.ca
Website: oic-bci.ca
Ann Chafe (Acting)
Commissioner for Legislative Standards
39 Hallett Crescent
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1B 4C4
Phone (Chief Electoral Officer): 709-729-0712
Phone (Commissioner for Legislative Standards): 709-729-0714
Fax: 709-729-0679
brucechaulk@gov.nl.ca
Website: www.legislativestandardscomm.gov.nl.ca
David Phillip Jones, K.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
300 Noble Building
8540 109 Street Northwest
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 1E6
Phone: 780-433-9000
1-800-340-2689 (toll free)
Fax: 780-433-9780
DPjones@sagecounsel.com
Website: www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/about/statutory-officers
Honourable Joseph P. Kennedy
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
P.O. Box 1617
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 2Y3
Phone: 902-242-5978
Fax: 902-424-0632
Website: nslegislature.ca/index.php/people/offices/conflict-of-interest-commissioner
Katherine R. Peterson, K.C.
Integrity Commissioner
1772 Waddell Avenue
Peterborough, Ontario
K9K 2G5
Phone: 1-888-398-2785 (toll-free)
Fax: 1-866-676-4923
kpeterson@integritycom.nu.ca
Website: www.integritycom.nu.ca
Honourable J. David Wake, K.C.
Integrity Commissioner
2 Bloor Street West, Suite 2100
Toronto, Ontario
M4W 3E2
Phone: 416-314-8983
1-866-884-4470 (toll free)
Fax: 416-314-8987
integrity.mail@oico.on.ca
Website: www.oico.on.ca
Judy Burke, K.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
197 Richmond Street
P.O. Box 2000
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 7N8
Phone: 902-368-5970
Fax: 902-368-5175
baodonnell@assembly.pe.ca
Website: www.assembly.pe.ca/
Me Ariane Mignolet
Ethics Commissioner
1150, rue de la Claire-Fontaine
7th Floor, Suite 710
Québec, Quebec
G1R 5G4
Phone: 418-643-1277
Fax: 418-643-1318
info@ced.assnat.qc.ca
Website: www.ced-qc.ca
Honourable Louis Lebel
Legal Counsel
Complexe Jules-Dallaire, T3
2820 Laurier boulevard, 13th floor
Quebec City, Quebec
G1V 0C1
Phone: 418-650-7004
louis.lebel@langlois.ca
Honourable Maurice Herauf, K.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
Box 10, 630-1855 Victoria Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4P 3T2
Phone: 306-787-0800
Website: www.saskcoic.ca
David Phillip Jones, K.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
300 Noble Building
8540 109 Street Northwest
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 1E6
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From: "Armitage, Blair"<Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:27:22 +0000
Subject: RE: Methinks our "Ethics Watchdogs" should check my work again
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Sir,
I am in receipt of your email. Again, however, I note that it does not
ask me to do anything within my official capacities. In your voice
mail to me today, you chided me for not acknowledging your email from
last year, so I am taking the time to do so, again today. Unless an
email is addressed specifically to me, for my action, I will not be
directly acknowledging receipt in the future. I will, however, take
note of it.
Regards,
Blair Armitage
Principal Clerk /Greffier Principal
Committees Directorate/Direction des comités
Senate of Canada/Sénat du Canada
Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 5:21 PM
To: imacleod@ottawacitizen.com; sfine <sfine@globeandmail.com>;
Michael.Duheme <Michael.Duheme@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
<jbosnitch@gmail.com>; andre <andre@jafaust.com>; COCMoncton
<COCMoncton@gmail.com>; premier <premier@gnb.ca>; postur
<postur@for.is>; mroy <mroy@powerlaw.ca>; Ricard, Lyse
<Lyse.Ricard@sen.parl.gc.ca>; jacques.lalonde@sen.parl.gc.ca
Louise <Louise.Dalphy@sen.parl.gc.ca>
<Deborah.Palumbo@sen.parl.gc.
<Willard.Dionne@sen.parl.gc.ca
<Senator.Sinclair@sen.parl.gc.
<Howard.Wetston@sen.parl.gc.ca
<Eric.Forest@sen.parl.gc.ca>; Paulson, Bob :RCMP
<Bob.Paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Selwyn@selwynpieters.com; wtrudell <wtrudell@simcoechambers.com>;
Armitage, Blair <Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca
<philippe.joly@cie.parl.gc.ca>
Subject: Methinks our "Ethics Watchdogs" should check my work again
http://davidraymondamos3.
Thursday, 16 March 2017
Yo Bobby Paulson I wonder if you or Mean Mikey Duheme or Marc-André
Roy bothered to tell the Pentecostal pastor/Senator Don Meredith and
his lawyer Selwyn Pieters that Peter Harder. Lyse Ricard, Mary Dawson
and all their cohorts have no right to judge him
---------- Original message ----------
From: Philippe.Joly@cie.parl.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:53:18 +0000
Subject: Your December 15, 2016 email
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Good Day Mr. Amos,
Please find attached a self-explanatory letter.
Regards,
Philippe Joly
Enquêteur principal / Senior investigator
Commissariat aux conflits d'intérêts et à l'éthique / Office of the
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
Parlement du Canada / Parliament of Canada
66 rue Slater, 22e étage, Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0A6
Téléphone : 613-996-6012 Télécopieur / Fax : 613-995-7308
Courriel / Email :
philippe.joly@cie.parl.gc.ca
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please notify the sender by return email, telephone or fax
immediately, and delete this communication and destroy all copies. We
thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Cette communication, ainsi que tout fichier ou toute pièce qui y est
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communication peut contenir des renseignements protégés, confidentiels
et soustraits à la divulgation en vertu de la loi applicable. Si vous
avez reçu ce message par erreur, vous êtes prié d'en aviser
immédiatement l'expéditeur par courriel, téléphone ou télécopieur, et
d'effacer la communication et d'éliminer toute copie. Nous vous
remercions de votre collaboration.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Armitage, Blair"<Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:31:24 +0000
Subject: RE: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within the
Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again right now
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Sir,
I am in receipt of your email.
Is there anything you are asking me to do with it in my official
capacity? The attached files do not appear to address issues for which
I have any responsibility.
Regards,
Blair Armitage
Principal Clerk /Greffier Principal
Committees Directorate/Direction des comités
Senate of Canada/Sénat du Canada
Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 2:18 PM
To: Meredith, Don <Don.Meredith@sen.parl.gc.ca>; Armitage, Blair
<Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within
the Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again
right now
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:59:11 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within
the Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again
right now
To: "peter.harder"<peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:00:06 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within
the Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again
right now
To: blair.armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca, Paul.Tasker@cbc.ca,
peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Trudeau's Senate leader asks for $800K office budget
Prime minister to name 20 more senators by the fall, Peter Harder
tells Senate committee By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Apr 14,
2016 3:39 PM ET|
Peter Harder - Independent
Province: Ontario
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Appointed on the advice of:
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Email: peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca
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Blair Armitage
Blair Armitage works as Principal Clerk for Senate of Canada.
Blair can be reached at 613-996-5588
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Not as good as Mary though.