Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come under fire for cash-for-access fundraising. ( John Woods / The Canadian Press )Finally, the Trudeau government is starting to pull itself out of a mess of its own making with a plan to make cash-for-access fundraisers more transparent. Or, most importantly, why the Trudeau government doesn’t simply ban cash-for-access fundraisers — in which donors put down money to spend time with key decision-makers. Perhaps the most egregious example of the brazen fundraisers was one in which the prime minister himself was the star attraction. The event put the prime minister uncomfortably on the wrong side of ethics edicts he had given his own ministers.

Source: thestar January 29, 2017 05:02 UTC