Mr. Speaker, apparently the only people who do not see that this is an obvious conflict of interest are the Prime Minister and the leader of the Liberal Party.
The code of ethics of the Barreau du Québec indicates that to avoid conflicts of interest, lawyers must “take such reasonable measures as are required to ensure that confidential information or documents pertaining to the file are not revealed”.
However, the Prime Minister's candidate was the government's lawyer in this case. He is party to confidential information on his government's major spying programs.
How can the privacy commissioner do his work if he is involved in all of these files? It is a conflict of interest.