Man behind proposed medical innovation park 'deeply disturbed' by politician's comments about Oro-Medonte property, MZO
A local business owner is taking an NDP critic to task after the politician called out the company in a statement released to media.
On Tuesday, Jeff Burch, the provincial NDP’s critic for municipal affairs, asked Premier Doug Ford to “explain why he issued a minister’s zoning order (MZO) in Oro-Medonte that gave his buddies a ten-fold increase in the value of their property.”
He noted a subsidiary of Molded Precision Components (MPC) bought the land at 561 Line 7 N. for $2.65 million with the goal of creating a medical innovation park before requesting an MZO.
The MZO was issued, but MPC president David Yeaman then put the property up for sale in February, listed at $26.3 million.
“Yet again, Ford has tried to make his buddies even more rich by issuing an MZO. All this MZO did was try to make Ford’s buddies 10 times richer, no matter what it costs the rest of us,” Burch said.
“MPC has contracts with the provincial government to manufacture PPE, and has hosted multiple tours with PC politicians, while Geoffrey Campbell (of Oakleigh Developments) has donated thousands to the PC Party, including to the riding associations of Ministers Steve Clark and Doug Downey.”
Yeaman issued a statement of his own the next day, saying he was “deeply disturbed to hear the Ontario NDP is choosing to crassly play politics with Oro-Medonte’s Medical Innovation Park.”
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