For example Joe Oliver, the Conservative governments  finance minister did exactly what Mr Morneau is doing now with no real hyper ventilating and pearl clutching  from the press as we are seeing today, in fact it looks like the Globe ignored it completely.

So if this is doing harm to the"office meant to reassure Canadians" does that mean that Oliver inflicted harm or, because it was scarcely mentioned by the press and didn't send Steve Chase and Bob Fife barking and running in circles, does that mean that,like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear, it caused no harm?

http://o.canada.com/news/new-finance-minister-joe-oliver-says-investments-arent-conflict-of-interest-concern