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Mayor central to NDP's latest Greenbelt land swap complaint rebuffs claims

King Township Mayor Steve Pellegrini is not happy with Stiles.

Published Feb 1, 2023 at 10:18pm

Aidan Chamandy
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Aidan Chamandy
Mayor central to NDP's latest Greenbelt land swap complaint rebuffs claims

Marit Stiles, incoming leader of the Ontario NDP, provides new information related to the integrity commissioner’s Greenbelt investigation during a press conference at Queen’s Park on Feb. 1, 2023. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)

Incoming NDP leader Marit Stiles handed over another pile of documents to Ontario's integrity commissioner over the Greenbelt land swap, which were immediately disputed.

The evidence Stiles submitted in her latest filing isn't new and came from publicly available sources. Her Wednesday play was to try and firm up her contention that some of the developers who own the Greenbelt land got a heads-up.

The key detail, Stiles contended at a press conference, comes from a freedom-of-information request from a resident of King Township detailing a meeting between the Rice Group development company, King Mayor Steve Pellegrini and representatives of the Southlake Health Network on Nov. 1, 2022, just days before the government announced its Greenbelt policy change.

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