Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton is leaving politics for the private sector.
Premier Doug Ford said ““Monte helped build a coalition of private-sector union support that has never existed in the history of the Ontario PC Party. He introduced ground-breaking measures to protect workers’ rights and ensure that more workers are in the driver’s seat of their own careers.”
McNaughton had the temporary foreign workers situation dumped in his lap and responded with a number of measures to improve their lot.
The Globe and Mail said his departure has nothing to do with the Greenbelt scandal.
Ford announced Thursday that he is reversing the decision his government made last year to take 7,400 acres out of the Greenbelt for housing development.
He lost two cabinet ministers when Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk revealed that developers who lobbied the government would benefit by more than $8 billion.
Housing Minister Steve Clark was the first to resign and earler this week Kaleed Rasheed resigned over taking a trip with a developer to Las Vegas. His wife also worked for the developer who owned some of the land that was taken out of the Greenbelt.
