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Steve Clark
Estimated cost to Ontario
$8.3B
Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing 2018–2023. The Integrity Commissioner found he contravened the Members' Integrity Act by failing to oversee his Chief of Staff's improper involvement in selecting Greenbelt lands for removal. Clark resigned in September 2023.
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.
As Housing Minister, Clark was responsible for the Greenbelt removal process. The Integrity Commissioner found he had "abdicated" his ministerial responsibility by allowing his Chief of Staff Ryan Amato to drive land selection without proper oversight. He resigned following the IC report in September 2023.