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Multiple former Ford government staffers have turned over emails from their personal accounts relating to the Greenbelt and drafting mandate letters, Global News has learned, after the Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered them to search their accounts for communications relating to official government business. Among the staffers to discover emails which they had previously failed…
Ontario’s transparency watchdog has issued another order calling into question how the Ford government managed records and communications around its decision to remove land from the Greenbelt. In its latest command, the Information and Privacy Commission (IPC) told the government to write to a former staffer and ask them to sign a sworn affidavit explaining…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s integrity commissioner has closed an investigation requested into a former cabinet minister who resigned from the government and the Progressive Conservative caucus at the height of the Greenbelt scandal. The integrity commissioner’s office confirmed that a complaint from NDP Leader Marit Stiles, who wrote to request…
The Ford government has been ordered to try and access emails related to the Greenbelt scandal sitting in a former staffer’s personal email account, after Ontario’s transparency watchdog found the province had failed to retain potentially valuable records. In an order issued after an appeal by Global News, the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) said…
An Ontario lobbyist with close connections to Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative Party violated the province’s lobbying rules, according to the integrity commissioner, after requesting Greenbelt lands be removed on behalf of a client and offering government staff tickets to a hockey game. Nico Fidani-Diker was found in non-compliance with the Lobbyists Registration…
The future of Ontario’s Greenbelt will be re-examined again this year as the Ontario government prepares to embark on a mandatory 10-year review to determine whether parcels of land should be added or removed — a process that Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have offered little information on. When the two-million-acre Greenbelt was first created by…
