Liberal MP Kate Young’s letter to the CRTC was improper: ethics commissioner
OTTAWA — It was improper for Liberal MP Kate Young, as a parliamentary secretary, to support a television station’s licence renewal application, the federal ethics commissioner says.
Mary Dawson ruled Thursday the Ontario MP’s letter to the national broadcast regulator on behalf of the CTV station in her London riding ran afoul of the Conflict of Interest Act.
Dawson ordered Young to refrain from making such appeals without first seeking approval from the commissioner’s office.
Young, parliamentary secretary to Transport Minister Marc Garneau, has apologized for sending the Aug. 3 letter to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission calling for renewal of Bell Media’s licence for CTV London, where she was news anchor for many years.