To the editor,

Your September 7^th print issue had difficulty connecting its own dots. On the front page you covered the visit of Ontario’s Leader of the Opposition, Marit Stiles, with whom you focused on the recent reports from both the provincial Auditor General and the Integrity Commissioner that details a process of “insider trading” on Greenbelt lands by which “developers acted on knowledge that was not public, rushing to buy plots of land that they knew would soon be made available for development,” you quote Ms. Stiles as stating, with solid evidence from these reports, that “the process was corrupt from the start.”

 The reports name one of the most prominent of the developers engaged in this corrupt insider trading: the TACC Group led by Silvio De Gasperis, and those names appears on page 7 of this issue in an entirely different and fawning article on the “scion of a family of developers”, Alexandra De Gasperis of DECO Homes: “an arm of legendary builders TACC.”

This article, which reads like copy from TACC/DECO’s promotional material assures us that they will develop their property at Base31 with “affordable and attainable housing at its centre” and will in every other way bring benefits to the “striking artistic, agricultural, entrepreneurial and collaborative culture” that is PEC.

The article relays their ask to the municipality for a water supply sufficient for 9,000 units without any qualifications.

Really? How wonderful! 

 Too bad the developers behind this development that will dwarf Picton are corrupt and cannot be trusted. Too bad the paper on which readers should rely on for informed and balanced reporting is not doing its work with both eyes open.

Jeremy Guth

Milford, ON