Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers were fined Tuesday for violating the province's conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project.

Members of the legislature from all parties voted unanimously in favour of a report issued in May by ethics commissioner Jeffrey Schnoor, who ruled that Stefanson, her deputy premier Cliff Cullen and her economic development minister Jeff Wharton tried to get a mining project approved after the Progressive Conservatives lost the 2023 election and before the NDP government could be sworn in.

The three improperly furthered the private interests of other people, contrary to the conflict law, and violated the caretaker convention -- a long-standing parliamentary principle that forbids outgoing governments from mak

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