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Greenbelt, mandate letter emails unearthed on Ford government staffers’ personal accounts | Globalnews.ca

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Doug Ford staffers have turned over emails from their personal accounts relating to the Greenbelt and drafting mandate letters.

The emails reveal that a developer thanked Ford ’s executive assistant for “taking the time to further assist” with their “ Greenbelt glitch” The emails were turned over to the Ontario NDP as part of a freedom of information appeal.

The Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered them to search their accounts for communications relating to government business.

The premier’s office said all 15 staff did not locate records but did not answer how many had ended up finding messages.

Among the records were 16 “draft versions” of the 2022 mandate letters Ford would eventually give his cabinet ministers.

The emails located by former staffers relate to the Greenbelt in some way; it is not clear if other government emails were also contained.

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