Ford government close to completing Greenbelt checklist, key recommendation will go to committee [Video]

It was a set of recommendations to ensure that the Greenbelt scandal, a controversial chapter in Ontario’s political history, would never happen again.

A detailed investigation by Ontario’s auditor general into the government’s decision to remove 15 parcels of protected land from the Greenbelt resulted in 15 recommendations for systems-wide improvement.

As the one-year anniversary of that report approaches, the Ford government says it has completed all but one of the recommendations – quick work that the government hopes will help turn the page on the bruising scandal.

“We’re well on our way moving forward,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday. “We’re going to keep moving forward building homes everywhere other than the Greenbelt.”

But remnants of the Greenbelt scandal continue to linger over a government that is under an active RCMP investigation into whether the decision-making process rose to the level of criminality.

In Part 2 of a three-part anniversary series…