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Paul Fruitman
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Estimated cost to Ontario
$8.3B
Lawyer for Minotar Holdings Inc. in its constitutional challenge to Ontario's 2023 law restoring 15 parcels to the Greenbelt.
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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.
Counsel for Minotar Holdings Inc. in its constitutional challenge to the 2023 legislation that restored 15 parcels to the Greenbelt. The Ontario Court of Appeal rejected the challenge in a 2-1 decision on August 28, 2026.