TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Labour Minister Monte McNaughton is leaving government. Ford says McNaughton is going into the private sector. McNaughton has been a legislator for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex since 2011.
Ford says McNaughton is going into the private sector.He has been a key ally to Ford by drumming up support from private sector unions in the construction industry.
The news comes a day after Ford pledged to return protected Greenbelt lands his government had selected to be removed in order to build housing. Two cabinet ministers resigned in the wake of a pair of scathing reports into the government's handling of those land swaps.
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