I would cite one example. It's one we faced last fall, when Mark Carney, before he became Canada's most conflicted Prime Minister, was appointed as, for all intents and purposes, Justin Trudeau's economic adviser.
As the former prime minister's adviser, Mr. Carney should have been subject to the Conflict of Interest Act. However, Mr. Carney and Mr. Trudeau effectively cooked up a scheme whereby Mark Carney was not technically in the PMO, but was instead supposedly housed in the Liberal Party as the so-called chair of the Liberal Party's task force on economic growth, which turned out to be nothing more than a one-man task force. Mr. Carney could therefore avoid accountability, skirt the law by getting around the Conflict of Interest Act and hide his multitude of conflicts of interest from Canadians.
It was a complete and utter sham. Everyone knew that Mr. Carney was advising Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau even bragged about the fact that his economic adviser was none other than Mark Carney, yet Mr. Carney was circumventing the Conflict of Interest Act.
Do you not see a problem with that scenario?
