MPs Expand Probe on Federal Green Fund Plagued by Conflicts of Interest

A House of Commons committee will take a deeper look at a federal foundation financing green technologies in light of an auditor general report finding multiple conflicts of interest. MPs on the public accounts committee voted on Sep. 3 to call additional witnesses and to ask the auditor general to undertake a performance audit of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). “We need to ask that the auditor general herself do a more extensive study of what’s been going on in the Liberal green slush fund than she did in her selective sampling, random sampling of projects,” Tory MP Rick Perkins said in tabling his motion to expand the committee probe....