Developers in Ontario had direct influence over the province’s decision to extract lands from the Greenbelt and received “preferential treatment,” Ontario’s auditor general Bonnie Lysyk found in a blistering special report released on Wednesday that showed the Ford government began working to remove protected land as soon as it won re-election.
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