The Ford government has fired the entire board of directors at Ontario’s real estate regulator to fix what the premier on Monday called “a total mess.”

The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) confirmed to the Star all eight members of its board “cease to hold office upon the appointment of the Administrator,” Jean Lépine, who started this week.

Lépine was appointed by the province, which formally assumed control of the organization on Monday in the wake of the iPro scandal.

Stephen Crawford, minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, which oversees the regulator, gave Lépine “exclusive right to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the board, officers, and members of RECO,” he wrote in a Nov. 28 letter to the regulator’s board chair Katie Steinfe

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