Ontario NDP Leader asks watchdog to investigate Ontario Place deal for waterfront spa

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has asked the legislature’s Integrity Commissioner to probe the province’s deal to lease much of its Ontario Place site on Toronto’s waterfront to a private spa operator, alleging that a pledge to build a taxpayer-funded parking garage for the facility amounts to “preferential treatment.”On Thursday, Ms. Stiles released a nine-page affidavit and 1,000 pages of supporting documents, calling for an investigation into whether Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma violated the provisions in Ontario’s Members’ Integrity Act on conflict-of-interest and the sharing of inside information. The legislation, which governs MPPs, prohibits decisions that “improperly … further another person’s private interest.”