EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.Premier Doug Ford's office called together Ontario’s top political staffers to St. Paul's, an Anglican Church on Bloor Street, Thursday for a day of lessons on ethics and conflicts of interest.
At St. Paul's church on Thursday, Ontario's deputy integrity commissioner spoke to staffers about government employees' ethics law and conflict-of-interest rules, the commissioner's office's spokesperson said in an email. Another session was led by senior officials in the Cabinet Office, the government ministry that advises and reports to the Office of the Premier, which partially focused on record-keeping procedures, sources said. The premier's office did not respond before publication to questions about the training that staff attended.
Wake wrote that the evidence he collected during his investigation "paints a picture of a process marked by misinterpretation, unnecessary hastiness and deception."