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Lanark-area MPP Randy Hillier engaged in workplace harassment with his “unwelcome” criticism of staff at Tay Valley Township, an independent investigator has concluded.

A confidential report from lawyer John Curtis, who spent three months on the case, was given to township council on Monday. It centred on allegations that three individuals, including Hillier and an unnamed councillor, had violated internal conduct policies and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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The outspoken Hillier, who had criticized the planning and building departments at a township meeting on June 26, dismissed the finding as the work of a kangaroo court. “This has given me even more resolve to call a spade a spade.”

He had, in fact, refused to answer written questions from Curtis, calling the process a mockery.

“Mr. Curtis has determined that ‘you did engage in a course of conduct and comment that was known or ought reasonably to have been known to be unwelcome’,” reads a letter sent to Hillier. “This is the definition of workplace harassment in both the Program and the Act.”