Ontario ethics watchdog closes Greenbelt-related inquiry [Video]

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.

They later said the trip occurred in 2020 after reports from The Trillium and CTV called Rasheed’s timeline into question, and Rasheed has said it was an honest mistake.

A spokesperson for Integrity Commissioner Cathryn Motherwell says the office is required to suspend …