{"id":22242,"date":"2023-09-22T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/breaking-ontario-labour-minister-monte-mcnaughton-leaving-government-for-private-sector\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:55:07","slug":"breaking-ontario-labour-minister-monte-mcnaughton-leaving-government-for-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/breaking-ontario-labour-minister-monte-mcnaughton-leaving-government-for-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton leaving government for private sector"},"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 \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government has lost another cabinet member.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Minister Monte McNaughton is leaving government for the private sector, Ford said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made this decision based on what is best for him and his family at this point in his life and career,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n<p>McNaughton has been a legislator for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a key ally to Ford by drumming up support from private sector unions in the\u00a0construction\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonte helped build a coalition of private-sector union support that has never existed in the history of the Ontario PC Party,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe introduced groundbreaking measures to protect workers\u2019 rights and ensure that more workers are in the driver\u2019s seat of their own careers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McNaughton has served as labour minister since 2019 and was infrastructure minister the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes a day after Ford pledged to return protected Greenbelt lands his government had selected to be removed in order to build housing.<\/p>\n<p>Two cabinet ministers resigned in the wake of a pair of scathing reports into the government\u2019s handling of those land swaps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ui-provider eo bpf bpg bph bpi bpj bpk bpl bpm bpn bpo bpp bpq bpr bps bpt bpu bpv bpw bpx bpy bpz bqa bqb bqc bqd bqe bqf bqg bqh bqi bqj bqk bql bqm\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a9 2023 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/span><\/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\/breaking-ontario-labour-minister-monte-mcnaughton-leaving-government-for-private-sector\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government has lost another cabinet member. 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