Mayor Jeff Leal’s ‘unacceptable’ use of slur did not contravene council code of conduct, integrity commissioner says

Integrity commissioner finds Mayor Jeff Leal did not breach council code over racial slur used in Trent lecture

socastcmsRssStartFreq 90.5/Oldies 96.7 News staffsocastcmsRssEnd Peterborough’s Integrity Commissioner has found that while not acceptable, Mayor Jeff Leal did not contravene the Council Code of Conduct during a speech at Trent in which a racial slur was used. Guy Giorno investigated the matter on a complaint made by the Trent Central Student Association. Following a March 19th lecture to a business class, audio surfaced in which Leal used the …

Mayor Jeff Leal’s ‘unacceptable’ use of slur did not contravene council code of conduct, integrity commissioner says

Peterborough's integrity commissioner has found that Mayor Jeff Leal did not contravene the council code of conduct when he used a racial slur against Black people during a guest lecture at Trent University in March 2025.