Ontario's integrity commissioner has found that the province's housing minister violated the integrity act in the government's Greenbelt land swap.
In a blistering 166-page report, J. David Wake said the way the province went about removing 7,400 acres from the Greenbelt was “marked by misinterpretation, unnecessary hastiness and deception.”
The integrity commissioner’s report agreed with a previous, and equally damning, account from Ontario’s auditor general which suggested Ryan Amato, Clark’s recently resigned chief of staff, spearheaded the process. The responsibility for that, the integrity commissioner suggested, landed at the minister’s door.
“Members cannot hide from accountability under the Act where, through undue carelessness or inattention, they fail to oversee important policies or decisions in their offices,” the report said. Wake found Amato had been “operating largely alone and undirected,” despite the impression from other staff he was under direct instructions from either Premier Doug Ford’s office or from Clark.“Mr.
Wake said during the inquiry, his staff received evidence from 61 witnesses and Minister Clark. His office also reviewed maps, documents, text messages, emails, briefing decks and other documents which amounted to thousands of pages.
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