The Ontario Liberals are calling on the RCMP to supply an replace into their prison investigation of Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal earlier than voters head to the polls subsequent month.
In a letter shared with 680 NewsRadio, Liberal MPP John Fraser wrote on to RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme over the weekend requesting extra info.
“Given the Premier intends to call an early election this Wednesday, it is now an urgent matter that the RCMP provide an update into this investigation before the people of Ontario cast their votes next month,” Fraser wrote.
“In response, the RCMP stated, ‘The RCMP understands this is an issue of significant interest to the people of Ontario.’ I agree with that assessment.”
In October 2023, the RCMP formally launched an investigation into the Ford authorities’s resolution to open up protected Greenbelt lands for improvement, which the Liberals name an “$8.3 billion giveaway” to a choose group of “rich developers.”
The RCMP inquiry got here exactly one 12 months after then auditor normal Bonnie Lysyk issued a scathing report which discovered Ontario’s resolution to open protected Greenbelt lands as much as housing improvement discovered the method favoured builders with ties to the housing minister’s chief of employees. She additionally discovered the number of lands eliminated was “biased,” “seriously flawed,” and was “dismissive of effective land-use planning.”
Ford finally reversed his controversial plan in September 2023, calling it a “mistake,” however that hasn’t stopped his political opponents or the authorities from asking questions.
Ontario created the Greenbelt in 2005 to guard agricultural and environmentally delicate lands within the Higher Golden Horseshoe space from improvement.
With recordsdata from Richard Southern of 680 NewsRadio
