"I have a keen interest in setting a high ethical standard for all members of Parliament and all public office holders," Harder said.

During an emergency debate in the House of Commons Tuesday evening, Conservative MP Cathy McLeod, called the protests a "dress rehearsal" for TMX protests in the future.

Tensions between the government and the Wet’suwet’en Nation have been escalating since Dec. 31, when British Columbia's Supreme Court granted Coastal GasLink an expanded injunction.

"But you don't get do-overs in politics," the prime minister said.

SNC-Lavalin Construction pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud over $5,000, will pay a $280-million penalty and will be subject to a three-year probation order. The remaining charges were stayed.

News editors and producers cited her central role in the SNC-Lavalin affair in voting her the runaway winner of the title.

Lametti says the director of public prosecutions should be the one to decide whether a company should have access to a remediation agreement to avoid being pursued for corporate crimes -- most of the time.

Wilson-Raybould was speaking in Montreal with former MP Jane Philpott on Thursday, just over a month after the Liberal party was re-elected a 157-seat minority government.

The preliminary inquiries will be held in April. 

Michael Patrick McNutt was a volunteer coach in the 1980s and was employed as a teacher with the former Halifax Regional School Board until the mid-1990s.