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Amir Remtulla
Amir Remtulla & Associates
Estimated cost to Ontario
$10.5B
Founder of Amir Remtulla & Associates. Former Chief of Staff to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Well-connected Conservative lobbyist who worked on both the Ontario Place/Therme file and on behalf of Greenbelt-connected developer Silvio De Gasperis.
Connected Scandals
Ford handed 8 acres of prime Toronto waterfront to an Austrian spa company that had misrepresented its own credentials, locked taxpayers into a 95-year lease, and watched infrastructure costs balloon from $424M to $2.24 billion — all through a procurement process the Auditor General found was not fair, transparent, or accountable.
Registered lobbyist for Therme Group. Lobbied the Ontario government on the Ontario Place redevelopment alongside StrategyCorp principals.
Premier Doug Ford secretly handed 15 parcels of protected Greenbelt farmland to well-connected developers through a three-week backroom process — a windfall worth $8.3 billion to those developers — and only reversed it after the Auditor General publicly exposed the scheme.
Lobbied on behalf of Silvio De Gasperis and TACC Group, whose Greenbelt lands were among those removed in the 2022 rezoning. Remtulla's dual role across both files illustrates the overlap between Greenbelt and Ontario Place networks.