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In December 2022, the Ontario government removed 7,413 acres from the protected Greenbelt. Not a mistake. Not an oversight. A decision that transferred over $8.3 billion in land value to private developers — through a single stroke of government authority. That number is from Ontario's own Auditor General. The assessed value of those 15 parcels before the decision: $240 million. After: $8.523 billion. The Ontario Auditor General released her findings on August 9, 2023. Her conclusion was unambiguous: 92% of the land removed matched parcels specifically requested by two developers. The process was described as "rushed and flawed" with a "near-total absence of decision-making documentation." Those two developers are documented by name. Silvio De Gasperis — TACC Construction, Arista Homes, Leslie Elgin Developments. His family, companies, and senior staff donated at least $294,000 to the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party between 2014 and 2022. He owned land in four of the fifteen removed areas. He is identified as one of the two developers who handed site-specific parcel data directly to Ryan Amato — Ford's housing minister's chief of staff. Michael Rice — Rice Group, Green Lane Bathurst. Donations of at least $47,000 to the Progressive Conservatives. A company associated with Rice purchased nearly 700 acres of Greenbelt land in King Township for $80 million — two months before the government's December 2022 announcement. He is identified as the second developer who directly influenced which parcels were selected. The Milani family — Rizmi Holdings. Donated more than $100,000 to the Progressive Conservative Party, including to Ford's 2018 leadership bid. Their land was among those removed. In total: nine developers who stood to benefit most from the Greenbelt decision donated a combined $572,000 to the Ontario PC Party. That figure comes from Elections Ontario public records, as reported by the Toronto Star and The Narwhal. How did the two developers communicate which parcels they wanted? Paper envelopes and USB keys. Passed at a September 2022 dinner hosted by industry group BILD. Ryan Amato received the material. The Auditor General found his office drove the selection process. 92% of what was removed matched what those two developers asked for. The Ontario Integrity Commissioner released his findings on August 30, 2023. Housing Minister Steve Clark "contravened his ministerial duties." The private interests of certain developers "were furthered improperly." Clark was formally reprimanded. He resigned on Labour Day, September 2023. Ford publicly apologized on September 21, 2023. The RCMP opened a criminal investigation in October 2023 into whether the changes "corruptly favoured certain developers." As of October 2025 — two years in — the investigation is ongoing. No charges have been laid. No timeline has been given. While the Greenbelt decision was being made, government staffers were: — Replacing the word "Greenbelt" in emails with the code "G*" to complicate future FOI searches — Working from hard copies to minimize electronic records — Watermarking documents so leakers could be identified — Regularly deleting emails — Using personal email accounts to contact lobbyists That is documented by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, confirmed by Global News. In 2025, the IPC ordered former chief of staff Ryan Amato to hand over Greenbelt-related emails from his personal account by June 2026. Amato is challenging that order in court. Now here is what happened when journalists tried to find out who Doug Ford was talking to during all of this. Global News filed a Freedom of Information request for call logs from Ford's personal cellphone — the number he publicly advertises and uses for government business. His official government-issued phone had months of blank call logs. Government lawyers admitted in court proceedings that Ford uses his personal phone to make and receive calls in his capacity as Premier. The Information and Privacy Commissioner ruled the records must be disclosed. Ford's government fought it for over two years. On December 29, 2024, a panel of three Ontario judges upheld the IPC's order. The records should be made public. The court dismissed the government's application less than three weeks after hearing arguments. Ford announced he would appeal. On March 13, 2026 — rather than comply — Ford's government announced it will rewrite the law entirely. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act — in place for more than 35 years — would be amended to exempt the Premier's office, cabinet ministers' offices, parliamentary assistants' offices, and all staff within those offices from FOI requests. Retroactively. Meaning every active FOI request already in the pipeline — including the cellphone records — could be killed by the new legislation before it ever sees daylight. Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim issued a statement the same day calling the announcement "shocking." Her exact words: "If records about government business can be shielded from scrutiny simply because they sit in a minister's office, on a staffer's device, or within a political account, public accountability is eviscerated." On the retroactivity: it sends a message that "if oversight bodies get in the way, just change the rules." On the core purpose of the amendment: it "is about hiding government-related business to evade public accountability." NDP Leader Marit Stiles was direct: "No government changes the FOI rules unless they are trying to hide corruption." The bill has not yet been tabled. It is scheduled for introduction March 23, 2026. It has not been voted on. It has not received royal assent. It was the same FOI law — the one Ford is now trying to gut — that exposed the Greenbelt scandal in the first place. DougFord @fordnation — Ontario shed 38,000 jobs in Q2 2025. Manufacturing alone lost 29,400 jobs in a single quarter. The sharpest quarterly drop since 2009, outside of COVID. That data is from CBC and the Ontario Financial Accountability Office. The FAO projects 119,200 fewer jobs in Ontario by the end of 2026 if trade restrictions remain in place. Windsor. Guelph. Brantford. The Waterloo Region. Steel. Aluminum. Auto. These are not abstract numbers. These are the communities that built this province. You ran a $75-million anti-tariff ad campaign featuring Ronald Reagan. It ran on American media. It angered the White House. Prime Minister Carney called you from Asia — twice — to ask you to pull it. You refused. Carney subsequently apologized to Donald Trump for the ad. Multiple sources confirmed it derailed trade talks that had been proceeding. You then stood beside Carney for a joint announcement of tariff relief measures for workers. You said publicly you had "a great relationship." Ontario workers are watching that math. Here is what every one of these things has in common. A $75-million ad campaign that complicated Canada-US negotiations — while Ontario's manufacturing sector bled. A $8.3 billion land value transfer to donors — documented by the province's own Auditor General. A three-year legal battle to keep a phone's call logs secret — at public expense, amount undisclosed. A law rewritten retroactively — ten days before the legislature was even scheduled to resume — to seal the records that exposure was built on. In each case: the public interest moved in one direction. The government's response moved in the other. The Greenbelt decision has been investigated by the Auditor General, the Integrity Commissioner, and the RCMP. The FOI fight has been ruled against — twice — by Ontario courts. The transparency law rewrite has been called an evisceration of public accountability by the province's own Privacy Commissioner. These are not allegations. These are findings. By Ontario's own institutions. DougFord @fordnation — you are the Premier of 15 million people. Not nine developers. Not the donors. Not the insiders. Every claim in this post is sourced. Auditor General of Ontario. Integrity Commissioner of Ontario. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. CBC. Globe and Mail. The Narwhal. Global News. Toronto Star. Elections Ontario public records. Court documents. Not one word of speculation. We are watching. We are not going anywhere. #ONpoli #GreenbeltScandal #FordFOI #TransparencyNow #OntarioDeservesBetter #WeAreWatching