Web of Connections — who profits when Ford decides
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BeneficiaryInstigatorLobbyistCriticVictimJournalist
Scandal
The Greenbelt Scandal
$8.3B+
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.
Connections (13)
- Silvio De Gasperis
- Shakir Rehmatullah
- Michael Rice
- Frank Klees
- Peter Van Loan
- Amir Remtulla
- J. David Wake
- Doug Ford
- Steve Clark
- Ryan Amato
- Flato Developments — 10 acres removed
- TACC (TACC Construction / TACC Developments, De Gasperis family) — $50M land purchase
- Rice Group — $80M land buy / ~$8B windfall (combined w/ De Gasperis)