All but one of the 15 sites freed up for housing were named by Housing Minister’s chief of staff after meeting developers, report says
Ontario’s Auditor-General has issued a scathing report on the provincial government’s removal of 3,000 hectares from its protected Greenbelt, saying the move was unnecessary to hit the province’s housing goals, done without considering environmental impacts, and favoured certain developers.
“What occurred here cannot be described as a standard or defensible process,” Ms. Lysyk writes in her report, which is expected to fuel more debate about the government’s controversial decision last year to remove land from the 800,000-hectare Greenbelt in order to build 50,000 new homes and help meet its goal of getting 1.5 million new homes built by 2030.
More than two-thirds the land removed – including the 1,900-hectare Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, east of Toronto – was on properties provided to Mr. Amato by two developers, whom Ms. Lysyk does not name, at a development industry function in September 2022.
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