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Andrew Guizzetti
York 1 (landfill, Dresden Ontario)
Ontario businessman and owner/controller of the York 1 landfill corporations in Dresden, Ontario (Chatham-Kent). Guizzetti and his brother Daniel, along with business partner Brian Brunetti, donated over $200,000 to PC causes since 2018, with over 50 executives from their companies donating exactly $945 each — consistent with ticketed PC fundraising events. Schedule 3 of Bill 5 cancelled a previously promised environmental assessment for their York 1 landfill, reversing a commitment the government had made during a provincial byelection.
Connected Scandals
Under cover of a tariff emergency, Doug Ford passed omnibus legislation that repealed Ontario's Endangered Species Act, created law-free "special economic zones" where cabinet can suspend any provincial rule for handpicked companies, and quietly cancelled environmental assessments for a landfill owned by $200,000 PC donors — repeating the exact playbook of the Greenbelt scandal with no limits and no oversight.
Guizzetti's companies and associated executives donated over $200,000 to PC causes since 2018. Schedule 3 of Bill 5 cancelled the promised environmental assessment for his York 1 landfill in Dresden, Ontario. Liberal MPP Ted Hsu filed an Integrity Commissioner complaint over the connection; the Commissioner declined to investigate but explicitly made no findings on the underlying facts.
The Ford government promised a comprehensive environmental assessment for a proposed landfill directly upstream from Canada's only population of the salamander mussel — then buried the reversal inside omnibus Bill 5 after winning a byelection on the promise, exempting a company whose owners donated $200,000 to the PCs from all provincial environmental review, leaving 33 species at risk in one of Canada's most biodiverse rivers with no provincial protection.
Co-owner of York1 Environmental Waste Solutions Ltd., the company proposing to expand the Dresden landfill. The Guizzetti brothers and their associates donated approximately $200,000 to PC causes since 2018, with over 50 executives donating exactly $945 each — consistent with ticketed PC fundraising events. Schedule 3 of Bill 5 cancelled the comprehensive environmental assessment the Ford government had promised for the York1 project, directly benefiting Guizzetti's company. Liberal MPP Ted Hsu filed an Integrity Commissioner complaint over the donor-to-decision connection; the Commissioner declined to investigate but made no factual findings.
The Ford government promised a comprehensive environmental assessment for a proposed landfill directly upstream from Canada's only population of the salamander mussel — then buried the reversal inside omnibus Bill 5 after winning a byelection on the promise, exempting a company whose owners donated $200,000 to the PCs from all provincial environmental review, leaving 33 species at risk in one of Canada's most biodiverse rivers with no provincial protection.
The York1 landfill expansion project at 29831 Irish School Road, Dresden, directly upstream of Canada's only salamander mussel population, was exempted from provincial environmental assessment by Schedule 3 of Bill 5. This exemption eliminates the primary regulatory barrier to the landfill's 30-fold capacity expansion to 6,000 tonnes of waste per day.