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John Mutton
Former Mayor of Clarington, Ontario; banned from lobbying the Ontario government until April 2027 by the Integrity Commissioner for unregistered lobbying activity tied to a Clarington-area Greenbelt land removal.
Connected Scandals
The Ford government buried amendments inside the 2026 Budget Bill that would permanently exempt the Premier, all cabinet ministers, and their staff from freedom-of-information requests — retroactive to 1988 — nullifying every pending FOI request and active court case, including those seeking Doug Ford's personal cellphone records and Greenbelt-related emails. Ontario's own privacy watchdog publicly called three of Ford's stated justifications factually incorrect.
Former Mayor of Clarington and unregistered lobbyist; met with then-Minister David Piccini in 2021 about land later removed from the Greenbelt. Later banned from lobbying Ontario until April 2027.