How 2 developers got the Greenbelt land they wanted

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The Ontario Integrity Commissioner's report in the Ford government's controversial Greenbelt land swap offered new details on how deals with two prominent property developers were made.

Wake found that then-housing minister Steve Clark violated ethics rules during the province's process of removing 15 sites from the Greenbelt to build 50,000 homes and adding land to the protected area elsewhere. Clark resigned days after the report while Amato resigned in mid-August, but denied wrongdoing.

The premier did not touch the Greenbelt in his first term — he initially told developers in February 2018 that he planned to open up the area but backtracked during the election campaign. "I have a package I want you to take a look at — there was an injustice done at Cherrywood and I want you to take a look," De Gasparis said to Amato.

She took that opportunity to tell Amato about three other sites: one in Richmond Hill, Ont., another in Vaughan, Ont., and one in Hamilton that TACC co-owned with a friend of her father's.

 

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