The federal ethics commissioner has suggested former Member of Parliament Vic Toews has violated a pair of conflict of interest rules.

Mary Dawson is Commissioner of Conflict of Interest and Ethics. On Friday, she released a 41 page report from her findings.

Toews served as Provencher MP from 2000 to 2013. In March of 2014 he was appointed to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench. Dawson's report states Toews worked for both Peguis First Nation and Norway House Cree Nation within months of leaving office. She says in each case Toews contravened sections of the Conflict of Interest Act.

The report states that in 2007, while he was President of the Treasury Board, Toews approved the transfer of the Kapyong Barracks land, a portion of Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg to the Canada Lands Company. Toews provided strategic advice to Peguis First Nation in connection with the Kapyong settlement proposal and was involved in the drafting of a portion of the settlement proposal. However, according to Dawson, the Act prohibits former public office holders from acting for or on behalf of any person or organization to which the former public office holder had acted for, or provided to, the Crown. This prohibition applies indefinitely.

The second violation, according to Dawson, happened in October, 2013. The report states during that month, Toews provided consulting services on a number of issues for the Norway House Cree Nation through a company owned by his spouse. The Act prohibits former reporting public office holders from entering into a contract of service with, accepting an appointment to a board of directors of or accepting an offer of employment with, an entity with which they had direct and significant official dealings during their last year in office. This prohibition applies to former ministers for a cooling-off period of two years after their last day in office. In this case, Toews' dealings happened within the same year.

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