Waterloo MPP asks for audit on Wilmot land assembly [Video]

The fight over the sale of Wilmot farmland has taken a new turn.

Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife and John Vanthof, the MPP for Timiskaming-Cochrane, sent a letter Monday to Ontario’s auditor general requesting a “value-for-money” audit of the controversial land assembly process.

The letter was also posted to Fife’s X account, under the caption: “The lack of transparency is typical of this government and the people of Ontario deserve better.”

“Over the past year, the Ontario government has been funding and directing a plan for the Region of Waterloo to acquire prime farmland in Wilmot Township for the purposes of industrial development,” the letter begins. “The provincial government has mandated that this plan proceed largely in secret, requiring local officials to sign non-disclosure agreements that prevent them from explaining to the public the basis of decisions concerning this land assembly, including why the government would seek to place a new …