Ontario Premier Doug Ford denies any involvement in the changes made to the Greenbelt, despite evidence suggesting otherwise. The auditor general and integrity commissioner have cleared him and his office of any wrongdoing.
“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. Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk arrived at a similar conclusion following a value-for-money investigation in August, which looked into the government’s plan to remove 15 areas from the protected Greenbelt to build 50,000 homes.
“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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