Ah. Schadenfreude SZN. My Favorite.

RCMP announced a criminal investigation into Doug Ford’s government, and that’s a BIG deal, kids.

CBC: The RCMP announced Tuesday it has launched a criminal investigation into Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s plan to open up Greenbelt land for development.

“Following a referral from the Ontario Provincial Police, the RCMP O Division’s Sensitive and International Investigations (SII) unit has now launched an investigation into allegations associated with the decision from the Province of Ontario to open parts of the Greenbelt for development,” RCMP Cpl. Christy Veenstra said in a statement Tuesday.

It added that no further updates will be provided to ensure that the investigation process leads to a “fair and proper” outcome.

“While we recognize that this investigation is of significant interest to Canadians, the RCMP has a duty to protect the integrity of the investigations that it carries out.”

The RCMP’s sensitive and international investigations unit specializes in “sensitive, high risk matters that cause significant threats to Canada’s political, economic and social integrity of its institutions across Canada and internationally,” the force’s website says. The squad performs political investigations that examine elected officials on allegations of fraud, financial crimes, corruption and breach of trust.

Doug Ford is under CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. Let that sink in Canada. The people of Ontario didn’t stop. Wouldn’t stop. When we all work together we can get justice. #GreenbeltScandal #onpol #onpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/e2qzezTIbx

— Laura Babcock (@LauraBabcock) October 10, 2023

The criminal probe comes after the province removed land from the protected Greenbelt last year as part of its broader push to build 1.5 million homes by 2031. Last month, Ford walked back his plan to remove large swaths of land from the protected Greenbelt following weeks of public pressure and the resignation of two ministers. He apologized for the land swap and said the lands would all be returned to the Greenbelt.

Prior to the reversal, two legislative watchdogs examining the government’s land swap found the process to select which lands were removed from the Greenbelt was flawed and favoured certain developers.

The province’s integrity commissioner, J. David Wake, found Steve Clark, Ford’s housing minister at the time, violated ethics rules. Clark resigned shortly after the commissioner’s report was released.

The auditor general, Bonnie Lysyk, in a separate report, found the developers stood to see their land value increase by $8.3 billion because of the land swap.

The criminal probe comes after OPP said in August that the force had asked the Mounties to decide whether an investigation is warranted, in order to “avoid any potential perceived conflict of interest.”

On Tuesday, Ford’s office said it will “fully cooperate” with any investigation.

“We have zero tolerance for any wrongdoing and expect anyone involved in the decision-making about the Greenbelt lands to have followed the letter of the law,” a statement from his office reads.

“Out of respect for the police and their process, we will not be commenting further at this time.”

The government has already acknowledged that the process was "flawed" and will table legislation next week to undo the decision. #onpoli

— Colin D'Mello | Global News (@ColinDMello) October 10, 2023

I wouldn’t comment “further at this time” if I were Doug or anyone involved in Doug’s land grab for developer/donor friends. They were all in on it. This shit doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and Douglas had A LOT of help stealing $9 billion in environmentally protected land to reward donors for supporting his power grab.
It’s also not an isolated incident.
Doug’s inability to NOT line his pockets is legendary. He’s been using a series of burner phones for six years. He keeps telling government watchdogs to fuck themselves after they pressed him for details as to why he won’t use his government phone (government phones are tracked and belong to the people of Ontario). So check his phones, and I’m sure you’ll see texts from Silvio’s guys and a few other tasty treats the RCMP are aware of.
The legendary Charles Adler was on the show today and discussed what this means for Doug. It means the RCMP has A) proof of some criminal activity, B) someone (maybe more than one person) with intimate details of possible criminality leaked something, and C) this criminal investigation has been going on for some time.

EMERGENCY DBS W @CharlesAdler: Doug Ford Is Under Criminal Investigation https://t.co/RIeuzREzA4

— Dean Blundell🇨🇦 (@ItsDeanBlundell) October 10, 2023

Who’s Investigating and Why?

The RCMP’s “Sensitive and International Investigation Unit. That’terriblead news for Doug AND his developer pals and other construction dicks he sole-sourced projects too. I’d be slightly concerned tonight if I were Mario Cortelucci or Silvio DeGasperis. International money knows no boundaries, and Doug has no morals or values other than MONEY. We have sanctioned Russian Oligarchs building subway tunnels, and Russian/Italian/Chinese money flooding Ontario has flooded this province for the past six years. What better way to park sanctioned money than through developers who run the province of Ontario while setting policy for themselves through dumb a money money-hungry hillbilly named Doug Ford.

When the RCMP SII unit says they have grounds to investigate you, they have serious shit on you and your friends from other countries. And you might be a danger to the country. Again, not great for Doug.

Pay special attention to the Domestic Corruption &Political Investigations bit:

Oh, Well. I wonder how Brian Lilley’s lying GF feels today. And how does this incredible duo plan on defending their boss and paychecks?

I wonder how Doug’s doner friends feel today, knowing he couldn’t keep it quiet.

I wonder when he plans on resigning and who else lawyers up in the coming days.

Exciting!

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