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Ontario minister who flouted Covid advice to take Caribbean holiday resigns
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 31, 2020 09:50pm |
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| Author | Associated Press |
| News Date | Thursday, December 31, 2020 08:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The finance minister for Canada’s most populous province has resigned after going on a Caribbean vacation during the pandemic and apparently trying to hide the fact by sending social media posts showing him in a sweater before a fireplace.
Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, said on Thursday he had accepted Rod Phillips’s resignation as minister hours after Phillips returned home from a more than two-week stay on the island of St Barts despite government guidelines urging people to avoid non-essential travel.
“Travelling over the holidays was the wrong decision, and I once again offer my unreserved apology,” Phillips said in a statement confirming his resignation.
In a video posted on Twitter on Christmas Eve, the sweater-wearing finance minister was shown drinking eggnog beside a fireplace with a gingerbread house and a little Christmas tree.
“I want to thank every one of you for what we are doing to protect our most vulnerable,” Phillips said about Ontarians hunkered down at home because of the pandemic over the Christmas holidays.
But Phillips himself had been enjoying a Caribbean vacation since 13 December on St Barts, a French island popular with the rich and famous, even as his Twitter account had suggested he was in snowbound Ontario. |
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