(Quebec) The bail granted by the Ethics Commissioner to Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon for his pheasant hunt is not going well.
The opposition is questioning Ariane Mignolet’s decision published on Wednesday, in which she cleared the Minister of the Economy for having been invited to take part in a hunting trip with his friends on an island in Lake Memphremagog.
In a press scrum on Thursday, PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he was surprised and had more questions than answers after reading the report.
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon says he does not understand why a gift can be accepted by an elected official in the context of a purely private relationship, when elected officials are required to declare gifts of more than $200 that they receive in the framework of their functions.
For his part, Liberal leader Marc Tanguay says he respects the Ethics Commissioner’s decision, but argues that the code of ethics should be amended to tighten it.