A smoking gun and damage control
And the bling ring
ABOVE THE FOLD
THE BIG REVEAL — Auditor General BONNIE LYSYK’s bombshell report on the Greenbelt is the closest thing we’ve got to a smoking gun showing a direct link between the powers-that-be and Ford-friendly developers when it comes to the controversial carve-up.
Turns out, the report was every bit as bad as we first reported it would be. But will it change anything?
Damage control: Rather than wait and see how the report played out over the coming days, a grim-faced Premier DOUG FORD and Housing Minister STEVE CLARK launched into damage control mode right away. You could read the tension on their faces as they took questions from reporters.
The upshot: The pair agreed that the “ends justified the means” and that the so-called process — in which developers weren’t, as alleged, tipped off that the previously protected lands would be opened up, but worse, that they had a heavy hand in making it happen, bureaucratic criteria be damned, to the tune of $8.3 billion — was fla…