Former Progressive Conservative MPP Kaleed Rasheed responds to a question at Queen’s Park in Toronto, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
Former Progressive Conservative MPP Kaleed Rasheed responds to a question at Queen’s Park in Toronto, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
TORONTO - Ontario’s integrity commissioner has closed a Greenbelt-related investigation into former cabinet minister Kaleed Rasheed.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles had asked the commissioner in October 2023 to examine a 2020 trip to Las Vegas that included Rasheed, Doug Ford’s then-principal secretary Amin Massoudi, and developer Shakir Rehmatullah, who stood to benefit from Ford’s now-reversed plan to remove land from the Greenbelt for housing.
Rasheed, Massoudi and Jae Truesdell — who was in the private sector at the time but served as Ford’s director of housing policy starting in January 2022 — initially told the integrity commissioner they “briefly” encountered Rehmatullah on a trip to Las Vegas in 2019.
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They later said the trip occurred in 2020 after reports from The Trillium and CTV called Rasheed’s timeline into question, and Rasheed has said it was an honest mistake.
A spokesperson for Integrity Commissioner Cathryn Motherwell says the office is required to suspend any inquiry when an election is called.
A probe can resume if the original requester asks for a restart within 30 days after an election, but the spokesperson says that did not happen.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 6, 2025.
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