Mr. Rasheed’s departure comes after his office admitted providing incorrect information for the integrity commissioner’s probe into the government’s Greenbelt land swap

The statements did not disclose why Mr. Rasheed resigned. But he did so the day after CTV News and Queen’s Park publication the Trillium reported that Mr. Rasheed’s office acknowledged providing inaccurate travel details to Mr. Wake about a trip the former minister took to Las Vegas in early 2020, where a developer who benefited from the Greenbelt decision was also vacationing.

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    A cabinet minister in Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government has resigned after his office admitted to giving incorrect information to the province’s Integrity Commissioner during the Greenbelt investigation.

    Kaleed Rasheed, who was minister of public and business service delivery, resigned from both cabinet and the Progressive Conservative caucus on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the Premier’s Office said.

    Former housing minister Steve Clark also resigned from cabinet after Mr. Wake determined that he broke ethics laws for failing to oversee his former chief of staff, who drove the process for selecting lands from the Greenbelt for development.

    But he did so the day after CTV News and Queen’s Park publication the Trillium reported that Mr. Rasheed’s office acknowledged providing inaccurate travel details to Mr. Wake about a trip the former minister took to Las Vegas in early 2020, where a developer who benefited from the Greenbelt decision was also vacationing.

    Mr. Rasheed told the Integrity Commissioner that during the course of the trip, which was also attended by Mr. Ford’s former principal secretary Amin Massoudi and current housing policy director Jae Truesdell, he was “shocked” to run into a developer, Shakir Rehmatullah – who is also a friend – in the lobby of his hotel.

    Mr. Rehmatullah’s companies own lands that were removed from the Greenbelt in 2022, and since 2020 they have received at least five ministerial zoning orders, which allow the province to override local planning rules, according to Mr. Wake’s report.

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