Integrity commissioner clears Ford’s chief of staff after ‘overlooked’ Greenbelt email
Ontario’s integrity commissioner has cleared Premier Doug Ford’s chief of staff of any wrongdoing after discovering an “overlooked” internal email in December 2023 about the decision to remove certain lands from the protected area.
The finding comes after NDP Leader Marit Stiles requested a review of the document on Jan. 12, as part of the commissioner’s inquiry into whether Steve Clark, former minister for municipal affairs and housing, had contravened the Members’ Integrity Act (MIA).
In August, Wake recommended that Clark be reprimanded for his role in the province’s Greenbelt land swap. The NDP asked the integrity commissioner in January to conduct the review after obtaining the personal email in Sackville’s records through a freedom-of-information request.
In a letter to NDP Leader Marit Stiles Thursday, integrity commissioner J. David Wake said that an email exchange between the premier’s then-principal secretary, now chief of staff� Patrick Sackville’s and former staffer Ryan Amato, was missed, but that it does not suggest Sackville knew about removal criteria ahead of time.
Wake said after discovering the email, which outlines a list of criteria for removing land from the Greenbelt, he concluded that the review into the matter would have been “unnecessary,” had the letter not been overlooked.
“I have concluded that the Oct. 17 email sent from Mr. Amato to Mr. Sackville’s personal email in the circumstances I have outlined does not support a finding that Patrick Sackville knew about the specific removal criteria for lands from the Greenbelt or the properties selected for removal until he was briefed with others, as he testified, on Oct. 27,” he wrote in the letter.
Wake said Stiles’ letter alleged that there was an apparent contradiction in the evidence of Sackville when he testified before Wake as a witness in the inquiry into Clark’s role in the Greenbelt land removal.
“It is unfortunate that this email was not retrieved in accordance with the request for documents I made to Mr. Sackville in the Clark Inquiry so that it could have been covered during his interview,” he wrote.
Sackville said the missed email “was an oversight on my part,” and was overlooked because it was on his personal email, according to the letter.
“I have accepted his explanation as to how it was overlooked,” the commissioner said.
CBC Toronto has reached out to the NDP and the Ford government for a response.
The RCMP is currently conducting a criminal investigation into Ford’s plan to open up Greenbelt land for development after announcing it would be looking into the matter in October 2023.
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