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Kevin Ashe
City of Pickering
Victim
Estimated cost to Ontario
$8.3B
Mayor of Pickering, Ontario.
Connected Scandals
Victim
The Greenbelt Scandal$8.3B+
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.
Ashe wrote to then-Municipal Affairs Minister Paul Calandra in 2023 making the case for reimbursement of Pickering's Greenbelt-related costs. Pickering is one of five communities — with Durham Region, Grimsby, Guelph and Wellington County — that confirmed to CBC in August 2026 that they have still not been reimbursed.