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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 (17)

  • Silvio De Gasperis
  • Shakir Rehmatullah
  • Michael Rice
  • Frank Klees
  • Peter Van Loan
  • Amir Remtulla
  • J. David Wake
  • Doug Ford
  • Steve Clark
  • Ryan Amato
  • Paul Calandra
  • Kevin Ashe
  • Mark Guinto
  • Paul Fruitman
  • 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)
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