After meeting the ethics commissioner earlier Thursday, the embattled minister announced he will donate to charity any profit on sale of his Morneau Shepell shares — a move that could total more than $5 million. OTTAWA—Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s troubles deepened Thursday with word that Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson intends to look into whether he was in a conflict of interest when he introduced a pension reform bill last year. The pension reform bill that Morneau tabled in October 2016 has not been further debated. Dawson told Morneau of the $200 penalty for the late disclosure of his ownership of SCI Mas des Morneaus, a corporation that holds his and his wife’s French villa. His office said Morneau made the charitable donation decision last week, at the same time as he planned to put all his assets in a blind trust and sell the Morneau Shepell shares.

Source: thestar October 26, 2017 19:21 UTC