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Posted October 27, 2025 4:34 pm
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Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson has paid an $18,000 fine for violating the province’s conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project.
Legislature Speaker Tom Lindsey says Stefanson submitted the payment last week and one of her former cabinet ministers, Jeff Wharton, has also paid his fine.
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The former economic development minister, who remains a sitting member with the Opposition Progressive Conservatives, was fined $10,000.
In early October, members of the legislature approved the recommended penalties and other findings in a report from ethics commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor.
Schnoor’s report says Stefanson tried to get a mining project approved after her Progressive Conservatives lost the 2023 election and before the NDP government could be sworn in.
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Stefanson has said she was acting in the public interest, had no personal stake in the project and no licence was issued in the end.
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Cliff Cullen, a former deputy premier, was also fined $12,000. He has left politics and has not spoken publicly on the matter.
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