POLS 3440 Lecture 2: Week 2
14 Jan 2016
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There are apparent conflict of interests and potential conflict of interests. Self dealing: use your position to secure a contract for a company you own. *using your government position to get a summer job for your daughter. Influence peddling: solicits benefits in exchange for using influence. Using employers property for private advantage: stealing office supplies. Using confidential information: using clients information to your advantage. Moonlighting: setting a business up on the side that competes with your other one. Post-employment: after a person has resigned and then goes into business in the same area. Conflict of interest involves the abuse of trust. Absent yourself from giving advice if you have a private interest. He had unseated joe clark by fanning the flames of the party"s frustration over their inability to win. He was good at saying what listeners wanted to hear. Patronage appointments allowed mulroney to provide an image for the party members across canada to look up to.
