Mayor Patrick Johnstone participated in the Local Climate Action Summit as a part of the COP28 U.N. Climate Change Conference late last year.
WATCH: Several months ago, an investigation was launched into New Westminster Mayor Patrick Johnstone after he accepted a sponsored trip to Dubai. Now the city's Ethics Commissioner has completed her findings. Cahterine Urquhart has the details.Ethics commissioner Jennifer Devins appeared before council on Monday to deliver her report about the trip, and to make her recommendation on how council should respond.Conference late last year.
Coun. Daniel Fontaine, one of two council members who launched the initial ethics complaint, said Johnstone should be required to donate $5,000 to the Don’t Go Hungry charitable organization to make up for some of the personal benefit he received on the trip. “It would have been a nice message to the public that, ‘I get it, I made a mistake and I am prepared to pay back,'” Fontaine said.
Tasha Henderson, one of the councillors who backed the training recommendation, agreed that an apology was in order.
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