The Liberals have filed a request for Ontario’s integrity commissioner to determine whether the labour minister broke ethics rules in how money was handed out from the skills development fund.

For weeks, David Piccini has been under growing pressure for the controversial retraining scheme, which the auditor general determined was “not fair, transparent or accountable.”

The same investigation from the auditor general also found that the majority of applications selected were ranked low or medium by the Ministry of Labour and that more than 60 of the lower-scoring applicants were approved after hiring a lobbyist.

The Trillium reported that Piccini had attended the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received skills development funding , as well as attending a Toronto Maple Leafs game

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