Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson has made history for a second time.

The province’s first female premier became the first premier to be fined for breaking the conflict of interest law.

On Tuesday, Progressive Conservative MLAs voted alongside the NDP to accept an ethics commissioner’s report that recommended Stefanson be fined $18,000 for trying to get a controversial sand mine licensed after losing the Oct. 3, 2023 election, but before the NDP could be sworn in as the new government.

A $12,000 fine will be levied against her former deputy premier, Cliff Cullen, and economic development cabinet minister Jeff Wharton, who was re-elected, will have to pay a $10,000, per Commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor’s recommendation.

Premier Wab Kinew called the fines “historic.”

“For the first

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