WhatsApp messages contradict what ex-staffer told Greenbelt inquiry – Orillia News

The housing minister’s then-deputy chief initially denied being invited to a Raptors game and golf by ‘Mr. X’: integrity commissioner report EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park. WhatsApp messages documented in a secret report by Ontario’s former integrity commissioner contradict what a key figure in the Greenbelt scandal told the parliamentary watchdog in its controversy-defining probe, The Trillium can reveal. While John Mutton — a former Clarington mayor known as “Mr. X” in the Greenbelt affair — was trying to get a client’s land out of the Greenbelt, he exchanged WhatsApp messages with a senior staffer in the housing minister’s office. “Do you and your husband like the Raptors,” he wrote on Sept. 11, 2022. “Yes big fan of the raptors but I actually don’t have a partner,” Kirstin Jensen, then the deputy chief of staff to the housing minister, replied. “I have seasons, my wife likes the Bulls games. Pick a game and you can come with me or take a friend,” he wrote back. Two-and-a-half years later, the province’s integrity commissioner sanctioned Mutton for 12 violations of the province’s lobbying law, including
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