Conservative MP threatened with eviction notice from taxpayer-subsidized apartment

Document suggests that Larry Brock, who has harried Liberals over alleged ethics violations, did not notify the ethics commissioner of his financial liabilities.

An outspoken Conservative ethics critic was threatened with eviction from his taxpayer-subsidized apartment over allegations of unpaid rent, Global News has learned.

In 2023, Minto Apartment Limited Partnership – owners of an apartment building just steps from Parliament Hill – asked the Landlord and Tenant Board to intervene after it said Conservative MP Larry Brock failed to pay $16,4129.23 in overdue rent, according to provincial documents.

A spokesperson for Brock, however, said he was never evicted from his downtown Ottawa lodgings — his secondary residence — and suggested instead that the dispute was over unpaid parking fees.

In a campaign where candidates’ assets and interests have been a frequent part of the conversation – namely Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s financial history – voters have little up-to-date information from Canada’s ethics watchdog, which scrubs financial disclosure records as soon as the election is called. That means Canadians largely have to take candidates at their word.

In addition to the dispute over rent, Brock, who is seeking re-election in the Ontario riding of Brantford-Brant South-Six Nations, also has liens against two pickup trucks, a small tractor and a scooter, according to Ontario government records. A document reviewed by Global News suggests that Brock did not disclose these liabilities to the federal ethics commissioner, as all MPs are required to do.

Brock is a frequent critic in House of Commons committees over perceived ethical lapses of Liberal cabinet ministers and former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

In a statement, Brock campaign manager Phil Gilles said it is “false” that Brock owed back rent or was evicted.

“All rent for the apartment was paid in full, on time, directly by the House of Commons,” Gilles said in a statement to Global News.