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J. David Wake
Office of the Integrity Commissioner of Ontario
Estimated cost to Ontario
$8.3B
J. David Wake was Ontario's Integrity Commissioner and the author of the 2023 Greenbelt integrity report, which drew on 62 witnesses and more than 2,300 documents to document how the Greenbelt land-removal process favoured certain developers. He died on July 7, 2026, a year after retiring from the office.
Connected Scandals
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.
As Ontario's Integrity Commissioner, Wake authored the 2023 Greenbelt integrity report — built on 62 witness interviews and more than 2,300 documents — that documented how the site-selection process favoured certain developers. He died on July 7, 2026, a year after retiring.