Although Morneau claim he had already paid $52,000 for his two 2017 trips to Kenya and Ecuador and only on the day of his committee interview realized he had received $41,000 in additional benefits. We are then by Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux to understand how busy the poor man has been in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis. Unfortunately, Covid-19 is called that because it started in 2019, not 2017. As to the more than $90,000 cost of these vacations, all I have to say is some vacation; some luxury; some privilege.
In 2018, Finance Minister Bill Morneau was already investigated by the Ethics Commissioner after he introduced a pension bill in the House of Commons while he still owned shares in his family's pension services company.
I rarely agree with the Conservatives, but on their demand that Morneau resign I have to agree. But this won't happen as it would only the even larger ethics violations of Trudeau over time.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is facing calls to resign after telling MPs that he cut a cheque for over $41,000 to repay travel expenses incurred by the WE organization related to two 2017 trips his family took with the organization.
Morneau said he wrote the cheque today — prior to going before the House of Commons finance committee to answer questions about his government's decision to task WE with administering a $912-million student volunteering program.
Morneau said that after conducting a review of his family's finances in recent days, he found documentation confirming that he already had repaid $52,000 in expenses for hotels and flights related to the trips to Ecuador and Kenya to view the organization's humanitarian work — but failed to locate receipts related to the WE programming he and his family members participated in during the trips.
After reaching out to the WE organization to learn the total amount of expenses WE incurred, Morneau said, he had his assistant write a cheque for $41,366.
"I expected and always had intended to pay the full cost of these trips, and it was my responsibility to make sure that was done," Morneau told MPs on the committee. "Not doing so, even unknowingly, is not appropriate. I want to apologize for this error on my part." (Does anybody believe this?)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/finance-committee-morneau-we-charity-1....