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WALK THE PLANK — Two weeks after the Auditor General’s explosive Greenbelt report and the Housing Minister’s chief of staff at the centre of the saga is out.

Word from the Premier DOUG FORD’s Office: RYAN AMATO’s resignation was accepted and is “effective immediately,” said a curt statement from spokeswoman IVANA YELICH.

Timing is everything: Amato’s exit came moments after his ex-boss STEVE CLARK’s keynote speech and the ministerial bear-pit Q-and-A session — big highlights at this year’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in London.

In the firing line: The latest scuttlebutt at the Pink Palace was that the hotly rumoured summer cabinet shakeup would come sometime after AMO wraps, so it’s possible that Clark (and others, for other reasons) could still spend some time in the penalty box and get shuffled out of the Housing and Municipal Affairs file.

That’s exactly what Oppo critics want, saying it’s farfetched that one chief of staff acted without his su…