Greenbelt lobbyist known as ‘Mr. X’ banned from lobbying for two years

A lobbyist who worked to have lands removed from Ontario’s protected Greenbelt has been handed the province’s first-ever lobbying ban, barring him for the maximum two years after the integrity commissioner ruled he broke the law numerous times.John Mutton, a consultant and former mayor of Clarington, Ont., who was identified in a 2023 integrity commissioner’s report about the Greenbelt only as “Mr. X,” is banned from lobbying until April 17, 2027, the office of the Integrity Commissioner of Ontario announced Thursday.