The federal government has gone without a conflict-of-interest and ethics watchdog for more than six months — a vacancy that the most recent commissioner says is putting investigations on hold and could allow violations to go unnoticed.
Mario Dion retired in February after serving as the last permanent conflict-of-interest and ethics commissioner.
A longtime staffer in that office, Martine Richard, took on an interim role in April. But she resigned within weeks in response to controversy over the fact that she is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Investigations that normally would be conducted by a commissioner are on pause until
