Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Dec. 1 that neither he nor anyone associated with his government gave advance notice to developers who bought land in the Greenbelt before it became open for development.
Earlier in the week, opposition parties had requested both the Auditor General and the Integrity Commissioner look into the matter. Developers had purchased land in a portion of the Greenbelt that the government later announced would become open for development.
A reporter asked Ford on Dec. 1: “Can you definitively say that you and no one associated with your government gave any advance notice either directly to the developers or through any kind of intermediaries about this plan?”…