Brockville council on Tuesday voted unanimously to reprimand Mayor Matt Wren over violations of council’s code of conduct.

The decision follows the recommendation of the city’s integrity commissioner , who suggested the reprimand over Wren’s dealings with the former organizers of Brockville’s Santa Claus Parade.

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In her report, the city’s integrity commissioner, Ellen Fry of the firm ADR Chambers, concludes the mayor violated the code of conduct on two occasions, first “by trying to intimidate” someone “by applying pressure at her place of work,” and in another instance by treating members of the public disrespectfully with the use of the term “wackadoodle.” (Please see related story.)

She recommended a reprimand, the lightest level of punitive action, for the first

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