i mean, i grasp that the rules are what they are, but this strikes me as fairly trivial. if somebody has information about money laundering or something, then out with it.
but, if you're telling me that hiring your sister as a secretary in and of itself is unethical for some reason then i'm not following you on that.
i would hope the ethics commissioner pens a recommendation that the rule be altered, rather than come down too strictly on somebody for giving her sister - a potentially close advisor - a job in her office.