Housing minister's chief of staff could face integrity investigation
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.Ontario's integrity commissioner's office is considering investigating him, its spokesperson confirmed.
On Nov. 4, the Progressive Conservative government announced its intention to remove 7,400 acres of land in 15 different parcels from the Greenbelt. It finalized the removal of these lands, and the addition of 9,400 acres to the Greenbelt from elsewhere, in December. Amato had “substantial control” over the process of determining which land would be removed from the Greenbelt, the provincial auditor wrote in her report.
Land in the five sites that Amato received from these developers accounted for 92 per cent of the total area the Ford government took out of the province's signature protected area last fall. In total, these lands' values could balloon by upwards of $8.3 billion by being removed from the Greenbelt for development, Lysyk said on Wednesday, citing a years-old estimate from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation.
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