The Municipal Accountability and Integrity Act, 2024, if passed, will ensure that municipally elected officials who perpetrate violence, harassment and predatory behaviour are finally held accountable and are no longer able to evade justice through long-standing loopholes.

Among other things, it will establish a common framework for codes of conduct across Ontario; it will require the minister to establish a board of integrity commissioners under the commissioner of Ontario and establish standards for selection and training; and it will allow the commissioner to make an application for judicial review to vacate a member’s seat in the case of egregious contraventions of the code of conduct.

Mr. Fraser moved first reading of the following bill:

Bill 208, An Act respecting the safe access to religious institutions / Projet de loi 208, Loi concernant l’accès sécuritaire aux établissements religieux.