Beretta Farms

$14,949 (2024)

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce's King—Vaughan PC riding association reported paying Beretta Farms $14,949 in its 2024 Elections Ontario filing for a "community barbecue" at a King City farm, per a Toronto Star analysis of riding association annual reports. PC Party communications director Peter Turkington described it as a well-attended barbecue using "100% Canadian meat" from "a proudly King company," and said context was necessary. Lecce's office did not respond to questions the Star sent 13 days before publication. Beretta Farms supplied food; the accountability question raised by the reporting is about the riding association's use of donations that qualify for provincial tax credits, not about the supplier.