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Rohit Gupta
Harrington Place Advisors
Managing partner of Harrington Place Advisors, an M&A advisory firm that, by its own description, specializes in "bridging public and private sector priorities" and "identifying high value opportunities for public sector assets." Appointed by the Ford government as provincial supervisor of the Toronto District School Board in June 2025, earning $350,000 annually. Previously served as an economic advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as an advisor to Metrolinx. Has no known background in public education.
Connected Scandals
The Ford government passed legislation giving the Minister of Education power to force school boards to sell public land to private developers, then used manufactured financial crises to take over six school boards — handing control of an estimated $60 billion in public land to provincial-appointed supervisors with real estate backgrounds and no education experience.
Appointed by the Ford government as provincial supervisor of the TDSB in June 2025, giving him sole decision-making authority over the board — including control of the Toronto Lands Corporation, which manages $20 billion in public school land. With no education background, Gupta is working with the Ministry on undisclosed changes to how the TLC operates, while public transparency at the agency has been curtailed.
The Ford government stripped elected trustees of all authority at 8 of Ontario's largest school boards — covering 750,000 students — installing politically-connected supervisors and passing legislation that removed the courts as a check on ministerial power.
Appointed TDSB supervisor by Education Minister Calandra in June 2025. As supervisor, Gupta stripped all elected trustees of voting rights and in December 2025 fired TDSB Director of Education Clayton La Touche.
Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra is preparing legislation to abolish elected trustees across English public school boards — eliminating a century of local democratic governance — after spending a year seizing 8 of Ontario's largest boards under "public interest" powers his own government wrote into law.
Appointed by Calandra as provincial supervisor of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) following its June 2025 takeover. Gupta — a Harper-era federal policy advisor with no education background — fired TDSB Director of Education Clayton La Touche in December 2025, exercising powers that would normally belong to an elected board.