All three former Manitoba Progressive Conservative cabinet ministers fined for breaking the province’s conflict of interest law have now paid up.

Legislature Speaker Tom Lindsey says Cliff Cullen, who served as deputy premier, has paid his $12,000 fine.

Former premier Heather Stefanson paid her $18,000 fine last month, and former economic development minister Jeff Wharton paid his $10,000 fine last month as well.

The three were found by the province’s ethics commissioner to have tried to get a mining project approved after the Progressive Conservatives lost the October 2023 election and before the incoming NDP government was sworn in.

The commissioner said the three violated the caretaker convention — a long-standing parliamentary principle that forbids outgoing governments from making

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