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Shakir Rehmatullah
Flato Developments
Estimated cost to Ontario
$8.3B
Principal of Flato Developments. A guest at the Ford family wedding, seated at a table purchased through the PC Ontario Fund chair. Received nine Ministerial Zoning Orders (MZOs) from the Ford government. All three of his Greenbelt removal requests were approved.
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.
All three of Rehmatullah's requests to remove his land from the Greenbelt were approved, a success rate unmatched among applicants. He was among the developers who attended Doug Ford's daughter's wedding. His firm also received an unusually high number of MZOs.