The former mayor of Clarington, Ont. — who Ontario's integrity commissioner identified as "Mr. X" in a scathing report about the removal of land from the Greenbelt — has been banned from lobbying the provincial government for two years.

Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake's office said in a statement issued Thursday that due to multiple transgressions over a period of several years, it was banning John Mutton from lobbying the province until April of 2027.

"Mr. Mutton's several failures to regis…