Premier Doug Ford stands by Ontario Place deal with spa group | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Jeff Gray
Publication Date: April 17, 2025 - 20:49

Premier Doug Ford stands by Ontario Place deal with spa group

April 17, 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford wouldn’t say whether he knew that Austrian spa operator Therme Group only owned one facility in Romania, and not a total of six similar spas, when he okayed the signing of a 95-year lease with the company for part of the government’s Ontario Place site on Toronto’s waterfront.The Premier came under fire on Thursday after a New York Times story elaborated on findings from the province’s Auditor-General’s report on Ontario Place issued last December, which concluded that taxpayers were on the hook for $2.2-billion in costs for the redevelopment.


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