A years-long battle to uncover the details behind a controversial sell-off of publicly owned land could spill over into Vancouver council chambers.
Boyle’s draft motion notes that community members “have been asking to see the agreement for sale and contract for twelve years.” The City of Vancouver had previously asked for the information to be made available, to no avail.
After his retirement from politics in 2009, Chudnovsky continued fighting to uncover the hidden details of the Little Mountain deal. In April 2018, he filed a freedom of information request seeking a copy of the sale contract. In February 2019, when he received a 99-page document from B.C. Housing, he was dismayed to most of the crucial details had been blacked out at the request of a “third party.