{"id":22206,"date":"2023-09-21T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/insufficient-grounds-for-full-probe-into-ford-stag-and-doe-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:52:00","slug":"insufficient-grounds-for-full-probe-into-ford-stag-and-doe-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/insufficient-grounds-for-full-probe-into-ford-stag-and-doe-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Insufficient grounds&#8217; for full probe into Ford stag and doe: commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Ontario\u2019s integrity commissioner says there are \u201cinsufficient grounds\u201d for him to conduct a full investigation into whether Premier Doug Ford breached ethics rules regarding his daughter\u2019s stag and doe party.<\/p>\n<p>NDP Leader Marit Stiles had asked Commissioner J. David Wake to issue an opinion on the event, which was attended by some developers ahead of the government\u2019s decision to open several parcels of protected Greenbelt lands for housing development.<\/p>\n<p>Wake says in a report today that there is a high bar in the Members\u2019 Integrity Act for him to start an investigation on whether a member broke sections relating to furthering someone\u2019s private interests and accepting a benefit connected with the performance of their duties, and the evidence in this case doesn\u2019t meet that threshold.<\/p>\n<p>A related report last month from the integrity commissioner found that the process of selecting lands for removal from the Greenbelt favoured certain developers.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s report, Wake says it\u2019s \u201cinteresting\u201d that one developer who bought tickets for the stag and doe purchased them from Tony Miele, the chair of the PC Ontario Fund, the fundraising arm of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Wake says Miele told him he sold about 20 tickets, but was acting as a friend of the Ford family and not as part of his party fundraising duties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92023 THE CANADIAN PRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2023\/09\/insufficient-grounds-for-full-probe-into-ford-stag-and-doe-commissioner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 Ontario\u2019s integrity commissioner says there are \u201cinsufficient grounds\u201d for him to conduct a full investigation into whether Premier &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Insufficient grounds&#8217; for full probe into Ford stag and doe: commissioner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/insufficient-grounds-for-full-probe-into-ford-stag-and-doe-commissioner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Insufficient grounds&#8217; for full probe into Ford stag and doe: commissioner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-22206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}