Marit Stiles alleges move to spend hundreds of millions on parking garage was ‘preferential treatment’ for Austrian spa operator that won 95-year lease
province’s deal to lease much of its Ontario Place site on Toronto’s waterfront to a private spa operator
In a cover letter addressed to Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake, Ms. Stiles singles out the decision to provide the spa company, the Canadian arm of Austria-based Therme Group, the “private benefit of dedicated publicly funded parking facilities” even though other bidders for the site were “explicitly warned” that proposals requiring taxpayer cash would not be considered.
The project is already being investigated in a value-for-money audit by the province’s Auditor-General. “Unlike the Opposition Leader, I have too much respect for the Commissioner to play politics with his office,” Ms. Surma said.Both the Integrity Commissioner and the province’s then-auditor-general last year issued damning reports on the government’s now-withdrawn plan to allow a select group of developers windfall profits from building housing on parts of theThe office of Mr.
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