The scandals that have rocked the city of Ottawa in 2017

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Sunday, December 31, 2017 20:00

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From the beginning of 2017, Justin Trudeau should explain a trip controversial, a stay on the private island of the Aga Khan in the Bahamas.

Just before Christmas, the ethics commissioner has ruled that the prime minister has broken the Law on conflict of interest in accepting this invitation.

“I take the responsibility for what has not been done. I would assume,” he said last December 20.

This controversy was a result of the cocktail of funding, involving business people in private residences.

In front of the opposition, who accused him of being more concerned about the wealthy people, Justin Trudeau cancels his trip to the Davos economic Forum.

It throws rather a charm with the canadian public: a tour of three weeks was like a election campaign.

“His advisers told him: “Look, Justin, it is not doing well, your business, it will be necessary that you take contact with the Canadian way”,” says Gérard Deltell, a conservative mp in Louis-Saint-Laurent.

If many people move to cheering on Justin Trudeau, others take the opportunity to show him their displeasure.

In the spring, it is the turn of the minister of Defence to end up in the hot water.

In a speech, Harjit Sajjan is described as having been the architect of the operation Medusa in Afghanistan, it has not been.

In September, it is the turn of the minister of Heritage.

Mélanie Joly presents its cultural policy and tries to defend the decision of the government not to tax the services of the giants of the web such as Netflix.

“We have always said that we would not increase taxes for the middle class”, she said.

“Maybe she has underestimated, in fact, the fervor… the fury of the trade, you know, on the field”, had replicated the president of the Union of Artists, Sophie Prégent.

The discontent remains high in Quebec.

However, no minister has been on the hot seat in 2017 as Bill Morneau.

His proposed tax reform has raised an outcry. After having defended for weeks, the minister of Finance makes it supple.

Then, the “Globe and Mail” reveals that the grand treasurer of the government had not placed his assets in a blind trust.

The opposition accuses him, therefore, to be placed in a conflict of interest. The ethics commissioner launched an investigation.

Bill Morneau had not declared his links with a villa in France.

When journalists ask to question the minister during a press conference, Justin Trudeau comes in.

An unusual scene, which seemed to testify of a certain annoyance of the prime minister, but in spite of all these controversies and others, the Trudeau government remains in the lead in voting intentions.

It must be said that the canadian economy is doing well, the prime minister continues to draw crowds and the attention of foreign media.

2018 reserve certainly a lot of challenges for the Trudeau government, starting with the renegotiation of NAFTA and the legalization of marijuana to name a few.

– According to the information of Raymond Filion