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In May, Trudeau removed himself from the process of choosing the next ethics commissioner, citing her ongoing investigation into a trip he took to the private island of the billionaire Aga Khan.

For Duff Conacher, co-founder of the watchdog group Democracy Watch — which originally submitted the complaints that sparked the lobbying commissioner’s investigations — that distinction doesn’t matter.

Conacher argues that whomever is the next commissioner, one of the most important things they’ll have to do is decide whether or not lobbyists raising money for the prime minister broke the rules and if so, whether to refer those cases to the RCMP for a more thorough investigation.

“He is not being investigated but a situation that directly involves him where the ruling will not be good for him if it’s found that he was at this event and these people are now lobbying him, it’s not going to be a good headline,” said Conacher.

Postmedia reported on June 6 that Trudeau hadn’t yet consulted the opposition on replacements for the lobbying commissioner and the ethics commissioner, as he is legally required to do. On June 9, Trudeau announced he was extending the terms of both commissioners for six months to provide more time to find their replacements.