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The province’s ethics commissioner has conceded that politician Pierre Karl Péladeau’s continued ownership of Québecor is an “exceptional situation,” but had no concrete answers Tuesday on what to do about it.

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Despite hype connected to a National Assembly committee review of the ethical code governing 125 MNAs, including the new leader of the Parti Québécois Péladeau, commissioner Jacques Saint-Laurent arrived seeking advice and direction from them.

The lack of progress on the thorny question appeared to frustrate the Coalition Avenir Québec MNAs on the committee. François Bonnardel started the day waving a board displaying the complex tentacles of Péladeau’s media empire.

CAQ leader François Legault went further, referring to the Péladeau-Québecor issue as the “elephant in the room” that nobody can ignore.

But they made little progress.

“What are you telling us politicians?” Bonnardel asked Saint-Laurent as the hearings plodded into the evening. “You say we have to study the blind trust. You throw the ball to MNAs and say you decide when you should say, ‘here’s what you should and should not do.'”