Manitoba news: Ian Bushie ‘inadvertently’ violated ethics rules [Video]

WINNIPEG –

Manitoba’s ethics commissioner has found an NDP cabinet minister was in the wrong for failing to disclose a business contract with the government but 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 on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.

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When Bushie took office after last year’s provincial election, the contract was already in place and had been permitted.

Schnoor says when the contract was renewed earlier this year, Bushie contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by failing to report it with the province and not including it in his disclosure statement.

But the commissioner found Bushie’s contraventions were inadvertent.

“The contraventions were trivial … there is no evidence of any bad …