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OTTAWA - Former conflict of interest and ethics commissioner Mary Dawson has died. The commissioner's office p...

OTTAWA — Ask Dave Dawson what his mother, Mary Dawson, was most proud of after nearly 50 years spent as a civil servant and Canada's conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, and the answer comes easy.

OTTAWA — Ask Dave Dawson what his mother, Mary Dawson, was most proud of after nearly 50 years spent as a civil servant and Canada's conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, and the answer comes easy. It was drafting the Constitution Act, 1982, which included the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he said. "Putting pen to paper and writing the text — she was very proud of that," Dawson said of his mother in an interview Friday. Mary Dawson died on Dec. 24 from a rare type of thyroid cancer. Sh

Ask Dave Dawson what his mother, Mary Dawson, was most proud of after nearly 50 years spent as a civil servant and Canada's conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, and the answer comes easy.

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