As you know well, the difference is the direct correlation between the finance ministers former company and the new bill.  Diversified portfolios of common stock in a similar corporate structure as no doubt most, if not all, the others hold should be a non issue.

Trudeau should have named them and the facts, odds are no smoking gun, and then moved to change the rule.

The NDP have a bone and they are going to chew it, but letting this fester helps neither Trudeau of the people of Canada,

Blythly defending bad behavior or saying the other guy did it too is not advancing the conversation or society.

And remember, the Globe endorsed Trudeau.  I voted for him.