Manitoba MLAs will soon vote on the ethics commissioner’s recommendation to fine former premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers for violating conflict rules, Premier Wab Kinew said Thursday.

The fines must be put to a vote by MLAs by Oct. 7, which is within 10 sitting days of the ethics commissioner’s report being presented to the legislative assembly on May 21. Members return to the chamber on Oct. 1 for the fall sitting.

Commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor recommended Stefanson, Cliff Cullen and Jeff Wharton be fined tens of thousands of dollars for pushing to licence a sand mine after the PCs lost the 2023 election and before the NDP government took office.

The watchdog’s 100-page report concluded Stefanson and Cullen were aware the incoming government was opposed to the

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