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Ontario ethics watchdog closes Greenbelt-related inquiry

Published May 6, 2025 at 7:06pm

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Ontario ethics watchdog closes Greenbelt-related inquiry

Former Progressive Conservative MPP Kaleed Rasheed responds to a question at Queen's Park in Toronto, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin GAC

Ontario's integrity commissioner has closed a Greenbelt-related investigation into former cabinet minister Kaleed Rasheed.

NDP Leader Marit Stiles had asked the commissioner in October 2023 to examine a 2020 trip to Las Vegas that included Rasheed, Doug Ford's then-principal secretary Amin Massoudi, and developer Shakir Rehmatullah, who stood to benefit from Ford's now-reversed plan to remove land from the Greenbelt for housing.

Rasheed, Massoudi and Jae Truesdell — who was in the private sector at the time but served as Ford's director of housing policy starting in January 2022 — initially told the integrity commissioner they "briefly" encountered Rehmatullah on a trip to Las Vegas in 2019.

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