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Mary Ng, Collision conference, Toronto, May 21, 2019
Collision conference, Toronto, May 21, 2019. Photo: Eóin Noonan/Collision via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0.

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Mary Ng

International Trade to 2025

Dion: contravened ss. 6(1) and 21. Media-training contracts to a friend’s firm (Dec 2022).

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Mary Ng's office hired her friend's PR firm. Twice.

She took part in the first decision and made the second, and never recused. The Ethics Commissioner found she broke the conflict law. She stayed in cabinet until March 2025.

Ng Report, made under the Conflict of Interest Act, paragraph 64. The marked passage is the one the caption describes.
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerThe Commissioner found she took part in the 2019 decision and made the 2020 one. The document is dated 2022-12-13.Ng Report, made under the Conflict of Interest Act, paragraph 64, page 18. Read 2026-10-16. Open the document ↗.

Mary Ng, MP for Markham–Thornhill 2017 to 2025; Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion from July 2018, with International Trade from November 2019, to March 2025

Mary Ng's office hired her friend's PR firm. Twice.
Mary Ng, Minister for Small Business and Export Promotion, on stage at the Collision conference, Toronto, May 21, 2019. Photo: Eóin Noonan/Collision via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0.

On 30 or 31 March 2020, as the pandemic shut the country, the Small Business minister picked up the phone. Mary Ng called Amanda Alvaro, a friend of almost twenty years who had been her campaign spokesperson and who runs the PR firm Pomp & Circumstance. That evening Ng emailed her own communications director: she had asked Alvaro to help make video for small businesses. On 8 April her office signed a $16,950 contract with Alvaro's firm. There were no competing bids.

Ng Report, made under the Conflict of Interest Act
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerThe Ethics Commissioner found that Mary Ng and Amanda Alvaro, co-founder and head of Pomp & Circumstance, are friends within the meaning of the Act, after almost twenty years. The document is dated 2022-12-13.What it shows: Ng Report, made under the Conflict of Interest Act, Executive summary; paragraph 59. The marked words read: “I find that Ms. Ng and Ms. Alvaro are friends within the meaning of the Act.”Ng Report, made under the Conflict of Interest Act, Executive summary; paragraph 59, page 17. Read 2026-10-16. Open the document ↗.

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