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Ethics czar’s senior counsel exercised ‘abundance of caution’ in recusal from SNC probe over potential conflict

The potential conflict of interest faced by Martine Richard, senior counsel at the ethics commissioner's office who is related by marriage to a cabinet minister, was first raised by ethics group Democracy Watch.

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