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Brian Brunetti
York 1 (landfill, Dresden Ontario)
Business partner of the Guizzetti brothers and associate of the York 1 landfill corporate group in Dresden, Ontario. Part of the donor network that contributed over $200,000 to PC causes since 2018. Beneficiary of Schedule 3 of Bill 5, which cancelled the previously promised environmental assessment for the Dresden landfill.
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Under cover of a tariff emergency, Doug Ford passed omnibus legislation that repealed Ontario's Endangered Species Act, created law-free "special economic zones" where cabinet can suspend any provincial rule for handpicked companies, and quietly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.
Business partner of the Guizzetti brothers; part of the donor group connected to York 1 landfill that contributed over $200,000 to the PCs. Beneficiary of Bill 5 Schedule 3 cancelling the promised EA for the landfill.
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.
Business partner of the Guizzetti brothers and co-owner of the York1 landfill corporate group. Part of the donor network that contributed approximately $200,000 to PC causes since 2018. Beneficiary of Schedule 3 of Bill 5, which cancelled the promised environmental assessment for the Dresden landfill.
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.
As a co-owner of York1 Environmental Waste Solutions, Brunetti directly benefits from the Bill 5 Schedule 3 exemption cancelling the provincial environmental assessment for the Dresden landfill — a site directly upstream of Canada's only salamander mussel population and 33 other species at risk.