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Daniel Guizzetti
York 1 (landfill, Dresden Ontario)
Co-owner of the York 1 landfill corporations in Dresden, Ontario (Chatham-Kent) with his brother Andrew Guizzetti. The Guizzetti brothers and their business associates donated over $200,000 to PC causes since 2018. Schedule 3 of Bill 5 cancelled the promised environmental assessment for their 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Under cover of a tariff emergency, Doug Ford passed omnibus legislation that repealed Ontario's Endangered Species Act, created law-free "special economic zones" where cabinet can suspend any provincial rule for handpicked companies, and quietly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.
Co-owner of York 1 landfill; part of the donor network that contributed over $200,000 to PC causes since 2018. Beneficiary of Bill 5 Schedule 3, which cancelled the previously 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.
Co-owner of York1 Environmental Waste Solutions Ltd. with his brother Andrew. The Guizzetti network donated approximately $200,000 to PC causes since 2018. Schedule 3 of Bill 5 cancelled the promised environmental assessment for the York1 landfill, directly benefiting the brothers' company.
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 co-owner of York1, Daniel Guizzetti directly benefits from Schedule 3 of Bill 5 exempting the Dresden landfill from provincial environmental assessment — clearing the primary regulatory barrier to the proposed 30-fold expansion of the landfill upstream from 33 species at risk in the East Sydenham River.