Raj Grewal given confidential details by mayor’s aide on Brampton land deal that cost city $1M extra; investigation sent to RCMP

“The results of a City of Brampton investigation into a real estate transaction that cost taxpayers $1 million extra has been sent to the RCMP, after councillors learned Brampton East MP Raj Grewal and Mississauga MP Navdeep Bains were given confidential details about the pending deal—including the agreed price—by Linda Jeffrey’s chief of staff, Hasneet Singh Punia.

The provincially owned property, needed to fix a traffic bottleneck at a railway crossing on Goreway Drive, was instead sold to private investors, who flipped it back to the city months later well above the price the city and province had agreed to.”

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A joint byline with my colleague Mansoor Tanweer, we were able to obtain confirmation that a city investigation revealed two local MPs, Grewal and Bains, received confidential information regarding a local land purchase. At the time, the city was trying to purchase the land from the province, however, a private investor swept in a gave the province a slightly juicier offer. Then they turned around and sold is back to the City of Brampton for $1 million more than what the city initially intended to pay.

As a young media company, this story was huge for us and once again had the national spotlight looking at the City of Brampton.

Published November 30, 2018 in The Pointer - Brampton