Both the Ontario integrity commissioner and the auditor general will be opening an investigation into the Doug Ford government’s plans to develop the Greenbelt.
Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk told CTV New Toronto that her office will be starting a value-for-money audit into the financial and environmental impacts of the removal of more than 7,000 acres of previously protected land.
In the joint request, Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles, interim Liberal Party Leader John Fraser, and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner, argued that the removal of those parcels of land, as well as the repeal of the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Act, will shift wealth to property owners and have “detrimental impact on park lands and the local ecosystem.
In the request, Stiles argues that Housing Minister Steve Clark contravened the Members Integrity Act when it came to the decision to allow development in the Greenbelt and Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve. In the report, Wake writes that both Premier Doug Ford and Clark have denied that either had disclosed the lands selected for possible development to a developer.
“When we submitted our requests we certainly felt there was strong case to be made, a larger body of evidence with regard to the minister and his former staff, and I maintain that and we'll see what the integrity commissioner perceives things.”
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