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Reuters
Rod Phillips, finance minister for the Canadian province of Ontario, which was quarantined again on Dec. 26, tendered his resignation Thursday after spending a controversial vacation abroad in the shadow of the Corona pandemic.
“Today, after my conversation with Rod Phillips, I accepted his resignation as Ontario Finance Minister,” Provincial Prime Minister Doug Ford said in a statement.
Earlier this week, Ford expressed “extreme disappointment” at his finance minister, who went on vacation to the French island of St. Bartholomew and asked him to return home “immediately.”
And the minister, who has been in the Caribbean since December 13, revealed his trip in newspapers this week, something that sparked an uproar as Canadians were called to stay home amid the spread of the new Corona virus.
“I made a huge miscalculation,” Phillips said upon arrival at the Toronto airport Thursday morning before meeting Ford, extending his apology.
According to the media, the minister was also heading to Switzerland on vacation last August.
Ontario is the second worst affected province by the virus after Quebec, which has 14 million residents and recorded more than 182,000 cases of the virus out of 579,000 cases in Canada.
Source: Agencies
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