SENATOR BROKE RULES WITH CHINA TRIP, REPORT FINDS

The Senate’s ethics officer says Conservative Sen. Victor Oh breached the upper house’s ethics code four times when he accepted an all-expenses paid trip to China in 2017. Moreover, Pierre Legault says Oh withheld information and deliberately misled the investigation into the trip, raising questions about his integrity. At issue is a delegation Oh led on a visit to Beijing and Fujian province in April 2017. Oh told Legault the trip was “a personal sightseeing journey” to his ancestral home, paid for by his sister. But in a report tabled in the Senate, Legault says evidence shows Oh touted the trip as a trade delegation and that he blurred the line between his private and public affairs throughout the visit.