Ex-cabinet minister Cullen pays ethics fine
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Former MLA Cliff Cullen has paid the $12,000 he was fined for violating ethics rules when he served in then-premier Heather Stefanson’s cabinet.
Speaker Tom Lindsey told the Manitoba Legislative Assembly Tuesday that Cullen has fulfilled his obligations related to an ethics commissioner’s report released May 21. The deadline to pay was Thursday.
Stefanson and another former cabinet minister, Jeff Wharton, had already paid their respective fines of $18,000 and $10,000.
The report found the three Progressive Conservatives tried to push through a licence for a Sio Silica sand mine project after losing the October 2023 provincial election. Of the three, only Wharton remains an MLA, representing Red River North.