Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake found Housing Minister Steve Clark violated two sections of the Members' Integrity Act that governs politicians' ethics.
Published Aug 30, 2023 at 5:49pm
Signboards voicing opposition to the Ontario Government's plans for the Greenbelt are seen outside homes withn the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, part of Ontario's Greenbelt, on May 15, 2023. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
Ontario's integrity commissioner has found that the province's housing minister violated the integrity act in the government's Greenbelt land swap.
Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake found Housing Minister Steve Clark violated two sections of the Members' Integrity Act that governs politicians' ethics.
Last year, the province took 7,400 acres of land out of the Greenbelt to build 50,000 homes and replaced it with about 9,400 acres elsewhere.
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