Ford says he will double and triple check Ontario Place deal after new report [Video]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is going to ask civil servants to “double and triple check” the province’s agreement with a European spa company after reports it exaggerated its success to land a lucrative deal in Toronto.

On Wednesday, the New York Times published an investigation alleging that Therme had misrepresented itself as a bigger company with a longer track record when it landed a deal with the Ford government.

Therme is behind a spa being built at Ontario Place, a facility which is set to be the centrepiece of the government’s massive redevelopment of the waterfront area.

The deal has been the subject of controversy already for the government, which gave the Austrian spa company a 95-year lease to run its private enterprise on public land.

Questions were also raised about the unusual bidding process implemented for the redevelopment and the commitment Ontario has made to build parking spotsfor the facility. The government is set to spend …