Ontario's Opposition leader would 'absolutely not' be okay with an MPP in her caucus taking a personal trip with a stakeholder with major government-impacted business
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
"Why not simply come clean and provide the information, and answer the questions?," Stiles said about a trip to Las Vegas that multiple independent sources, including ones in the government, linked to it, and unassociated with it, indicated to The Trillium that Rasheed and Amin Massoudi, then-Ford's principal secretary, took with developer Shakir Rehmatullah in February 2020.
A day earlier, Rasheed refused to answer questions related to the trip at a media availability. "I stand by my statement," Rasheed said when asked by The Trillium if he'd been in touch with Ontario's integrity commissioner about the trip, or if he thought it was appropriate for senior officials to go on personal trips with stakeholders who majorly benefit from government decisions.
"One of the things that many of us do if we have any question or concern — or frankly, it's just part of the routine proceeding, I think, for a lot of us as elected officials — is you run these things by the integrity commissioner and make sure that you're not stepping outside the Integrity Act in some way," Stiles had said earlier.
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