Veer takes message of integrity and ethics in politics to Ottawa
Red Deer’s mayor was in Ottawa this week to speak at the conference of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians.
Tara Veer missed Monday’s city council meeting in order to attend, a decision she says she didn’t make lightly because her focus is always on the home front.
But Veer believes being able to speak to hundreds of other Canadian and international female politicians in the nation’s capital was an important opportunity.
“The theme of this year’s conference was around government and elected officials being held to a higher standard. In order to establish that standard of integrity and ethics, we need to create workplace practices that support those things,” she says.