Trudeau's Slush Fund chair votes her own company
a $217,000 grant
OTTAWA — The former chairperson of a scandal-plagued clean tech fund, also referred to by Conservatives as the “green slush fund,” was found to have “improperly furthered” the interests of companies she was associated with by failing to recuse herself from the board’s funding decisions, according to the ethics commissioner’s latest report.
Canadian businesswoman Annette Verschuren resigned as president of the board of directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) late last year when it was announced that she was the subject of an ethics investigation.
“This is the second investigation in a few short months that criticized the waste and corruption at Trudeau’s billion dollar Green Slush Fund,” said Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett, who instigated the reports on Verschuren and Ouimet’s dealings.
The commissioner’s conclusions come after months of committee meetings and external investigations into allegations of misconduct and mismanagement at SDTC.
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