Housing Minister Steve Clark's former Chief of Staff effectively gave developers a heads up about the government's plans to remove lands from the Greenbelt, Ontario's Integrity Commissioner found.In the report released on Wednesday, the Integrity Commissioner detailed interviews conducted with the C...
A new report from the Integrity Commissioner details the questionable Greenbelt land selection process at the hands of Ryan Amato, and places substantial blame on Housing Minister Clark.Housing Minister Steve Clark's former Chief of Staff effectively gave developers a heads up about the government's plans to remove lands from the Greenbelt, Ontario's Integrity Commissioner found.
"I find that these actions were tantamount to Mr. Amato saying the words he had been careful not to say," the report says. "Developers may be congenitally optimistic... but they are not stupid. When they were met with this kind of interest in their properties from the Minister's Chief of Staff, which was in stark contrast to what they had been told for the whole of the government's first term, I find that it was reasonable for someone such as Mr.
Rice was “adamant that no one tipped him off” prior to purchasing the lands, and that “if, by 2022, a developer was not thinking about the Greenbelt opening up ‘they were asleep.’” In October, Mr. X sent an email to Tanenbaum saying Amato had asked for a legal description of his Greenbelt lands. The report also says the process was "unfair to those landowners who had an interest in seeing their lands removed and who were unaware of the potential change to the government's Greenbelt policy."
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