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Internal records reveal the Ford government rewrote the official plans of Hamilton, the regions of Halton, Peel and York

Ann Lawlor learned about the changes 11 days after she was elected mayor, when the government posted them on the province’s environmental registry on Nov. 4 – the same day it announced the Greenbelt carve-outs

The same day that Premier Doug Ford’s government announced its plans to take certain developers’ land out of the Greenbelt, it also made moves that benefitted developers who own rural land on the outskirts of Ottawa and Hamilton. 

The province ordered the expansion in November 2022, opening up 2,200 hectares of countryside for development, at the same time it announced it would be removing land from the Greenbelt.

Local advocates jubilant but argue residents must keep pressure on to rescind other contentious land-use decisions

The same day the province announced its plans to remove three Hamilton sites from the Greenbelt, it also opened up an additional 2,200 hectares of local countryside for development, including land owned by developers Sergio Manchia and Paul Paletta.

The Integrity Commissioner’s report lays the blame for giving developers undue access at the feed of Housing Minister Steve Clark’s former chief of staff, Ryan Amato

New details have emerged about how Premier Doug Ford’s government selected several sites in the Hamilton area to be removed from the Greenbelt, following an investigation by the province's integrity commissioner.

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