Web of Connections — who profits when Ford decides
ScandalCompanyBillPerson
BeneficiaryInstigatorLobbyistCriticVictimJournalist
Scandal
Ontario Place / Therme Spa
$2.2B+
Ford handed 8 acres of prime Toronto waterfront to an Austrian spa company that had misrepresented its own credentials, locked taxpayers into a 95-year lease, and watched infrastructure costs balloon from $424M to $2.24 billion — all through a procurement process the Auditor General found was not fair, transparent, or accountable.
Connections (5)
- Leslie Noble
- John Perenack
- Amir Remtulla
- Doug Ford
- Therme Group — $1.1B+ in rent/revenue over 95 years