Speaker, in her 2021 report on land use planning, the Ontario Auditor General noted how the minister favoured certain developers over others when deciding who should or should not get a minister’s zoning order. Seven developers received multiple MZOs; the two who received the most were Flato Developments and TACC Construction—the same developers that the minister has favoured with multiple removals from the greenbelt. The Auditor General warned, “Such a pattern opens up the MZO process to criticisms of conflict of interest.”

Given the minister’s pattern of preferential treatment for Flato and the De Gasperis family, why shouldn’t the public suspect a conflict of interest with his greenbelt decisions?