The mysterious development consultant who Ontario’s integrity commissioner identified only as “Mr. X” in a scathing report about the removal of land from the Greenbelt has been identified to CBC News as former Clarington, Ont., mayor John Mutton.
In a report released on Wednesday, Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake said Mr. X was one of two consultants hired by landowner Peter Tanenbaum to work on getting about 34 hectares of land on Nash Road in that community, approximately 83 kilometres east of Toronto, removed from the Greenbelt and rezoned to permit development.
Wake found that Mr. X may have engaged in unregistered lobbying and other potential