Daniel Breton Resigns as Environment Minister

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The Environment Minister of Canada, Daniel Breton, has officially announced his decision to resign from his post as a Parti Quebecois cabinet minister due to the infamous scandal involving evictions and criminal convictions for driving. He still, however, plans to retain his active seat of MNA for the Montreal riding of Sainte-Marie-Saint Jacques.

It has been more than a few weeks now, that the opposition parties abundantly repeated in front of the National Assembly that Breton shall resign because of the dreadful allegations made against him, as they abuse his role as Environment Minister in order to bully staff members of the arms-length provincial environmental review board (BAPE). But perhaps the final lift to make Breton resign was the newspaper reports published on Wednesday, examining Breton’s personal history of evictions and criminal convictions.

 Several newspaper cited different sources to publicize that Breton has a long list of criminal convictions as old as 1988 for defrauding the unemployment insurance system, and as recently as 2007 when he was fined $400 by Revenue Quebec. La Presse further mentioned that Breton was convicted in 1997 for driving without a license, and was twice expelled from his apartments in 2005 and 2009 for non-payment of rent.

The brief announcement of Breton stated that “I will remain an MNA for Saint-Marie-Saint-Jacques.” The MNA shared that he has spent his Wednesday evening at a food bank and homeless shelter, and asserted that “I know what it is to lose your job, to lose your apartment, to depend on charity.”