Ontario Premier Doug Ford is adamant he had nothing to do with the Greenbelt scandal and said he hasn’t been contacted by the RCMP, which is now investigating the reversed housing development plan.
“I had nothing to do with the changes in the Greenbelt, number one,” Ford said emphatically at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday.Ford’s comments follow the release of thousands of pages of emails and documents obtained by Environmental Defence through freedom of information requests about the Greenbelt development plans and urban boundary expansions.
“No, they haven’t reached out to me,” Ford said when asked if he had been called in for an interview.The unit investigates “high risk matters that cause significant threats to Canada's political, economic and social integrity of its institutions across Canada and internationally,” according to the RCMP website.
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