{"id":514251,"date":"2026-03-04T18:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:33:23","slug":"surrey-mp-becomes-the-10th-liberal-to-breach-conflict-of-interest-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514251\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey MP becomes the 10th Liberal to breach conflict of interest laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Source: Facebook<\/p>\n

Another Liberal MP has been caught breaking the rules and fined for violating the Conflict of Interest Act, bringing the total number of Trudeau government current and former members found in breach of the Act to a staggering ten, according to a report<\/a> by Blacklock\u2019s Reporter.<\/p>\n

Liberal MP Randeep Sarai was fined $200 for failing to disclose \u201call relevant information\u201d to the Ethics Commissioner within the 60 days of his appointment as Secretary of State for International Development.<\/p>\n

Sarai joins a host of government caucus members to violate the Conflict of Interest Code for MPs. Since 2015 when Liberals first came to power nine other caucus members have breached the Act, including Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, then-Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Privy Council President Dominic LeBlanc, former-Trade Minister Mary Ng, and MPs Greg Fergus, James Maloney, Anita Vandenbelt, and former MPs Joe Peschisolido, and Yasmin ratansi.<\/p>\n

Ng was also named among independent journalist Sam Cooper\u2019s list of alleged <\/a>witting or unwitting participants of foreign interference on behalf of the Chinese government, although Ng has denied the allegations on X.<\/p>\n

The max penalty for breaching the Conflict of Interest Act is $500, all though opposition members have attempted to and failed to impose harsher penalties for violating the ethics rule.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the Conservative Party of Canada proposed as a campaign promise to increase the penalty to $20,000. And again in 2022, Conservatives pushed for harsher penalties to disincentivize breaches of the Act.<\/p>\n

Sarai has been in the spotlight before. In 2019, he had his law practice revoked<\/a> over his history of \u201cprofessional misconduct offences.\u201d He has also championed<\/a> a bill which Conservatives have dubbed a \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d law.<\/p>\n

Sarai championed<\/a> a shift away from relations with India after the RCMP revealed alleged foreign interference from India. Notably, Prime Minister Mark Carney is now working on reversing the Trudeau-Liberal government stance announcing he wanted to \u201cdeepen ties<\/a>\u201d with India on Monday.<\/p>\n

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