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Peter Van Loan
Estimated cost to Ontario
>$18.3B
Former federal Conservative MP and former President of the Ontario PC Party. Became a lobbyist and was retained by DeGasperis-controlled companies across multiple files — including both the Greenbelt removal and the Highway 413 / Bradford Bypass corridor.
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.
Registered lobbyist for TACC Group / Silvio De Gasperis. Van Loan's long history as both a federal Conservative MP and Ontario PC president gave TACC access to the highest levels of the Ford government at the time their Greenbelt lands were being considered for removal.
Ford revived two cancelled highway megaprojects — the $8.6–12 billion Highway 413 and the $2–4 billion Bradford Bypass — despite independent studies showing negligible traffic benefits. Developers who own thousands of acres along both routes donated over $800,000 to Ford's PCs. Both projects were shielded from meaningful federal environmental review.
Registered lobbyist for TACC Corporation, Argo Development, and a Fieldgate Homes-affiliated company — all of which own land along the Highway 413 corridor. His lobbying targeted Premier Ford and Transportation Minister Mulroney. Democracy Watch filed a complaint alleging he violated Ontario's Lobbyist Registration Act in connection with these activities.