Integrity Commissioner David Wake is reviewing a request from the Premier’s office to determine the role of the chief of staff to the housing minister in selecting Greenbelt lands that would be approved for development.

That was one of the recommendations a day earlier from Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk in her report on the protected lands.

”We provided the government with 15 recommendations.  They accepted 14 of those recommendations,” Lysyk told Zoomer Radio.

”One of the recommendations was that a referral be made to have the integrity commissioner look at whether the chief of staff, operated contrary to the Public Service Act of Ontario.”

Lysyk says the chief of staff, Ryan Amato, told her that he was given packages from two prominent developers at a conference dinner last September, which included proposals to build on protected Greenbelt property that the developers owned.

Amato told the A-G he did not tell them that the province would be opening up the Greenbelt.

According to Lysyk, those two developers ended up with 92% of land that was removed from the Greenbelt.