Deputy minister broke rules by hiring unqualified acquaintance: ethics watchdog

OTTAWA — When Robert Colvile, the head of an influential right-leaning British think-tank, introduced Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre before a speech in London last month, he couldn’t help but draw a line between the fate of Canadian and British Conservative parties. “We did not just ask Pierre to deliver this lecture purely because… everyone in Britain has started paying a lot more attention to Canadian politics recently, and in particular, to the way in which an insurgent populist right-wing party called ‘Reform’ rose up to challenge the establishment Conservative party in the...