A job well done

Robson Hall alum Sherri Walsh has unanimous backing from executive policy committee on newly-tabled City Council Code of Conduct

February 8, 2018 —

Winnipeg lawyer and Robson Hall alum Sherri Walsh [LL.B./85] has received unanimous backing from the City of Winnipeg’s executive policy committee after she tabled a new Code of Conduct for City Councillors.

Since Walsh started her role as the City’s first ever integrity commissioner in April, 2017, this marks the near-accomplishment of her first task in raising the ethical standards of Winnipeg’s municipal politicians. City Council has yet to approve the code, to which the EPC made only one amendment: to change a requirement that elected officials report gifts valued at $50 or more, to include gifts of any amount, even cups of coffee purchased by lobbyists.

City council will debate the new code at the February 22 council meeting.

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