While no one explicitly told developers that Ontario planned to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing last year, the government telegraphed that message to builders through actions — and silence, the province’s integrity commissioner found.
Central to that indirect communication was a conference where certain developers had access to the housing minister’s chief of staff — two investigations found those builders ended up with 92 per cent of the sites taken out of the Greenbelt.
What took place at that conference, and some of what followed, is laid out in the report issued last week by commissioner J. David Wake, offering
