One guest is a lobbyist now working for a company pushing to build on Greenbelt land. Another guest received a provincial appointment months later.
from recent government decisions. Ford has pushed back against criticism, asserting that guests at wedding festivities were personal friends, invited to a family celebration unrelated to politics.said “regarding my family matters, my family is separate from the political process. They aren’t involved.”
Ford sought the integrity commissioner’s opinion on the attendance of six developers, whose names were raised in questions from a reporter to the premier’s office, a spokesperson for the commissioner told the Star. Not included among the names sent to the commissioner was Madeleine Bodenstein, a realtor and funeral director, whose appointment was made after the wedding, where she was sitting at the same table as the premier, according to the seating chart.
, chair of the Ontario Place Corporation, and a part-time member of Invest Ontario, which seeks investments and new revenue streams for the province. Their names were among those Ford forwarded to the integrity commissioner.Nico Fidani-Diker, who now lobbies for Fieldgate Land Development Ltd., White Owl Properties Ltd., and more than five other development companies or consortiums, was not included on that list, according to a spokesperson for the commissioner.
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