Carra apologizes to Calgarians and council after integrity commissioner investigations
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Ward 9 Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra issued two apologies to Calgarians and council after he was found to have violated the council code of conduct by the city's integrity commissioner.
Ward 9 Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra has issued apologies to both Calgarians and his council colleagues after two investigations from the city’s integrity commissioner resulted in sanctions against him.
Calgary’s integrity commissioner, Ellen-Anne O’Donnell, found Carra violated the council code of conduct when he failed to include his interest in a property in Inglewood on his public disclosure form, which all city councillors are required to do.
According to the integrity commissioner’s report, Carra and his wife made a $300,000 down payment on the home back in 2015, but “there was no written agreement or document of any kind” setting out the terms of the transaction.
“I apologize for failing to properly register my interest in a real estate matter,” Carra said to council on Tuesday, reading from his written apology.
“After a protracted, conflictual and very public seven-year pre-development process wherein, through consultation with private counsel and two successive ethics commissioners, I endeavoured to achieve the highest possible ethical conduct with regards to my family’s evolving interest in 66 New Street SE.”
In his apology, Carra called the integrity commissioner’s ruling “instructive, clear and fair,” and that he should have disclosed his interest in the property on his public disclosure form when he first got involved with the property back in 2015.
“I absolutely should have disclosed my interest when we registered that interest against the title in 2021,” Carra said.
Carra maintained his failure to disclose the property was “a paperwork mistake” that he takes seriously.
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