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Committee votes to question minister on Alto

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will appear before the House ethics committee next month to answer questions about his connection to the Alto high-speed rail project, after a lengthy Liberal filibuster.Champagne recused himself from decisions about the project last September, a month after his partner, Anne-Marie Gaudet, became a vice-president at Alto.The Crown corporation is responsible for the proposed $90-billion high-speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City.The conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, Konrad von Finckenstein, has told Champagne that he is not in a conflict of interest and that he would not need to implement an ethics screen. Champagne’s…

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