Former Ford aide broke lobbying rules for Greenbelt: integrity commissioner
CBC
Ontario's integrity commissioner has found that a lobbyist who used to work for Premier Doug Ford failed to comply with some rules while asking for a client's land to be removed from the Greenbelt.
The integrity commissioner has laid out several instances in which he says Nico Fidani-Diker broke lobbying rules, largely in the course of lobbying work related to the protected Greenbelt lands.
Commissioner J. David Wake wrote that Fidani-Diker failed to register after lobbying to try to get land removed from the Greenbelt and knowingly placed two public office holders in a real or potential conflict of interest by offering them tickets to a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
Fidani-Diker says in a statement that he accepts full responsibility for Wake's decisions and findings regarding his initial months as a registered lobbyist, while setting up his company three years ago.
Prior to starting his company, ONpoint Strategy Group, Fidani-Diker worked as Ford's executive assistant and manager of stakeholder relations in Ford's office and with the Progressive Conservative Party.
A 2023 integrity commissioner report into the now-reversed Greenbelt land removals found that the government's process favoured certain developers, and the RCMP is also conducting a probe into the Greenbelt decisions.
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