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margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Who got paid off? That’s a key unanswered question in the auditor-general’s (AG) damning report on how the provincial Conservative government carved up the Greenbelt. She tells us the land speculators will get over $8 billion in a process that strongly suggests corruption.</p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Three prominent Conservatives are identified by the AG — Premier Ford, Housing Minister Steve Clark and the chief of staff they appointed to pick whose lands got removed from the formerly protected Greenbelt. The AG tells us the latter got handed a package at a builders’ dinner last fall that listed 92 per cent of the lands subsequently chosen for removal.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 184px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">What did he or Ford or Clark get in return? They ignored or neutered the established process. They didn’t consult with municipalities, conservation authorities, Indigenous nations or financial experts. They trashed their party’s promise to not touch the Greenbelt, with all the political fallout that entails. And that decision delivered an enormous windfall to a handful of already extremely rich people.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 128px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Who cashed in? Was it one of these, two of them, all three and/or some others who somehow managed the process out of sight of the AG? Or are we to naively believe that those who got handed over $8 billion didn’t provide a significant payoff?</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 72px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Will this be revealed or continue to be covered up? Will our alleged democracy deliver justice?</p><div id="magniteoutstream" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0px;"></div></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 100px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Because there are also big losers — you and me and the rest of the non-billionaires. What are our losses, besides having a government that clearly does not represent our interests and can’t be trusted?</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 156px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Do you eat? We lose thousands of acres of the best agricultural land in Canada precisely when climate change has made the weather for growing food increasingly unreliable and food prices are jumping. And when heat, drought, wildfires and floods are also smashing up the foodlands we rely on in other parts of the world.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 406px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Do you breathe? 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