There was no criminality nor corruption in the Greenbelt land swap, Ford says
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.
The Progressive Conservative government has been embroiled in controversy since Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk came out with a damning report on the Greenbelt decision earlier this month, which she called “seriously flawed” and “biased.” Ford and Clark have maintained neither knew what Amato was doing, despite Ford telling Clark to “complete work to codify processes for swaps, expansions, contractions and policy updates for the Greenbelt” by fall 2022 in Clark’s post-election mandate letter.
Amato resigned his position earlier this week, shortly before news broke that the OPP was handing off a potential investigation to the RCMP to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest. The OPP had been reviewing whether to investigate for months and the RCMP also hasn't decided whether to launch a full investigation.
In February 2018, before the campaign started, Ford was caught on video telling a group of donors a PC government would open up "a big chunk" of the Greenbelt to development.
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