MPP Randy Hillier says he was ousted from the PC caucus after raising allegations about “possible illegal and unregistered lobbying” by Premier Doug Ford’s friends and advisers — and the NDP is now calling on the Ontario Provincial Police to investigate. Ford’s office called all of Hillier’s allegations “absurd and categorically false.”Ontario Conservative MPP Randy Hillier speaks with journalists outside the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Feb. 20, 2018. And, Hillier writes, he was also ousted for “raising concerns of possible illegal and unregistered lobbying by close friends and advisers employed by Premier Ford.” He provided no specifics about the alleged improper lobbying. “MPP Hillier alleges that his expulsion was an act of reprisal against him for ‘raising concerns of possible illegal and unregistered lobbying by close friends and advisers employed by Premier Ford’ ... Simon Jefferies, a spokesperson for the premier, said “everything Randy Hillier outlined in his letter is an outright lie.

Source: thestar March 18, 2019 16:32 UTC