‚Shades of the Greenbelt‘: Fragen zu Ontarios 2,5 Milliarden US-Dollar für Private Career Career Training Fund aufgeworfen

>An Ontario public-sector union is crying foul about grants given out from a multi-billion-dollar provincial fund for private career training, even as the province’s public colleges face unprecedented shortfalls it projects will lead to thousands of job losses.

>One of those applications to the Skills Development Fund (SDF) was from a Toronto-area restaurant chain, a legislature committee heard last year. It was handed in late, earned low scores from bureaucrats, but got grants totaling about $11 million anyway, the committee heard.

>It also heard one of the former staffers in Premier Doug Ford’s office who worked on that application in 2021 was Amin Massoudi, who allegedly got massages in a Las Vegas spa at the same time as developers eyeing the province’s protected Greenbelt.