A prominent Toronto-area developer is asking a court to block or delay a provincial watchdog from interviewing him as part of its investigation into the Ontario government’s decision to open formerly protected land for housing development, CBC News has learned.
Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk has been looking into the government’s removal of more than 2,995 hectares of land from 15 different areas of southern Ontario’s Greenbelt so that 50,000 homes can be built. Other land will be added elsewhere. The Greenbelt was created in 2005 to permanently protect agricultural and environmentally sensitive lands from development and covers some 810,000 hectares area of farmland, forest and wetland from
