A Pickering, Ont. councillor said she would advise extreme caution before accepting a free ticket to the premier’s gala fundraiser after learning hers was provided by the man dubbed “Mr. X”, who’s now under investigation by the province’s Integrity Commissioner for his alleged role in the Greenbelt scandal.
“Now I’m pretty cautious on everything I do with tickets. I had no idea,” Robinson said in an interview, saying she didn’t know the value of the ticket at the time, which was over the maximum threshold Pickering councillors are allowed to accept.
The report said he offered golf games and Raptors tickets to senior housing ministry figures and may have broken lobbyist rules as lobbyists are not allowed to be paid on the results of their work. Mutton was not a registered lobbyist.That parcel was one of 15 removed from the province's protected Greenbelt at the time, which could net some $8.3 billion to the landowners due to increased land values.
NDP Finance Critic Catherine Fife said she would support a call to get to the bottom of who paid for the ticket — a political donation that she said, by being re-donated, was then stripped of information about where the contribution was really from. “From my understanding, Mr. Mutton was selling tickets on behalf of the party and probably has sold these tickets to people that knew they were not going to attend. They filled up the tables. That’s not unusual,” he said.
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