Ontario’s finance minister resigns after a jaunt within the Caribbean.

A senior minister in Ontario’s cupboard has resigned after vacationing within the Caribbean as residents of Canada’s most populous province have been being urged to remain residence.

Rod Phillips, who was named Ontario’s finance minister in 2018, instructed reporters that his journey was a “dumb, dumb mistake” when he arrived again in Toronto on Thursday, after being summoned residence by Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier.

Shortly afterward, Mr. Ford stated that he had accepted Mr. Phillips’s resignation. From the beginning of the pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Liberal, has urged Canadians to keep away from nonessential journey overseas — and when saying a province-wide shutdown that began Dec. 26, Mr. Ford, a Progressive Conservative, instructed residents to remain residence “to the fullest extent possible.”

Mr. Phillips, and his spouse, went to the French territory of Saint Barthélemy, which is usually often known as St. Barts, on Dec. 13. He left behind a sequence of pictures and movies that have been posted on social media throughout his absence, and several other political opponents stated that the posts have been meant to create the phantasm that Mr. Phillips was celebrating the vacations in Canada. The photos seem to have been made at Mr. Phillips’s residence in suburban Toronto. He is now below a compulsory 14-day quarantine there.

Mr. Ford initially claimed that he knew nothing about his minister’s journey till it was reported in by the information media. But at a subsequent information convention, he acknowledged that he had been conscious of Mr. Phillips’s absence for about two weeks.