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Wines wants an integrity investigation of Calgary councilor referred to state and police

The city councilor of Calgary wants to be investigated by the integrity committee of the 9th District Council. Gian-Carlo Carra was transferred to the state government and Calgary police.

Word 2 coun. Jennifer Wyness tried to add her referral as an urgent business item during Wednesday's council meeting.

Instead, Wines chose to seek her referral until the executive committee meeting on July 20th.

On Tuesday, Carra was sanctioned in two separate cases by the city's integrity committee member, Ellen-Anne O’Donnell. Initially it was related to social media posts.

The case that Wines wants to investigate further is the integrity committee's ruling that Carla did not disclose his interest in Inglewood's assets for six years while working for the city council.

"This is one job in which the decisions we make affect the value of real estate and the growth and beautification of our neighborhood," Wines told reporters. "That's why I think we always need to be very careful."

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According to the investigation result of the Integrity Commissioner, Carla And his wife made a $ 300,000 downpayment at home in 2015, but "there was no written agreement or document of any kind" transaction. He later paid an additional $ 36,000 for his property, his report said.

Investigation revealed that Carla publicly disclosed his interest in Inglewood's assets to the city council and refused to vote for notices of motions related to the lifting of restrictions on the community. but he didn't add. The property of his councilor disclosure statement, which is a requirement of city government law.

Carra updated his financial disclosure form to include Inglewood's assets after the 2021 local elections.

"Since Karas paid to the land-owning limited company, he was able to accept the first failure to disclose profits in 2015 as a true misjudgment. The councilor wasn't interested in real estate at the time, "O'Donnell said in a report.

"But since March 7, 2016, Councilor Carra knows that he is the property of the day."

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O'Donnell determined that between 2016 and 2021, Carla had "multiple opportunities" to disclose the property and the breach was of "moderate severity". "

" Participating as a new councilor emphasized us to disclose our financial interests and ensure that we ask questions, "Wines said.

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"There is a veteran councilor who was elected twice here and failed to disclose ... I know how he can do it. Don't overlook it. "

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Carra has been removed from the chair of the Infrastructure and Planning Committee and chairs of the board, committee and committee to which he belongs. Cannot serve as. , But he can still participate in them.

However, the sanctions are related to social media posts.

The ward councilor must write an apology to the Calgarian for not complying with the disclosure policy and not attending the training of ethical advisors within 30 days.

Carra told Global News that he would respond through a written apology and previously accepted the decision of the Integrity Committee.

Mr. Winesse felt that the council did not have time to "digest" the report of the integrity committee and needed more attention after reading it after last night's meeting. Stated.

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Mayor Jyoti Gondek didn't talk about the details of the situation, but Wyness gave "good points" about the report. Said that.

"Yesterday, after a long council, I received a report from the Integrity Committee. I came home after 10:30 pm and we met on Wednesday morning. Has resumed, "Gondec said. "We all need a little more time to digest its contents."

– Using a file from Paula Tran in Global News

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