Manitoba cabinet minister ‘inadvertently’ violated rules, ethics commissioner finds

Manitoba’s ethics commissioner has found an NDP cabinet minister was in the wrong when he failed to disclose he had a business contract with the government, but he is not recommending a penalty.Commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor says Ian Bushie, the minister of municipal and northern relations, previously had a contract with the government through a gas bar and convenience store he runs on the Hollow Water First Nation.When Bushie took office after last year’s provincial election, the contract was already in place and had been permitted.