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‘It stinks’: Ford government’s Dresden dump flip-flop favours big PC donors
The landfill’s owners, their family and businesses’ executives have given over $200,000 to the PCs since 2018; the premier insists the threat of Trump warrants a bigger dump
Charlie Pinkerton and Jesmeen Gill
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a news conference in Toronto on April 17, 2025.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
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Editor's note: Shortly after this story was published, Liberal MPP Ted Hsu wrote a letter to the province's integrity commissioner requesting an investigation into the matters reported here.

Weeks before last year’s byelection in Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, Ontario’s environment minister offered major relief to many local voters: the Ford government would halt controversial expansion plans for a dump in a town in the riding by requiring an examination of its environmental impacts.

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives then ran a candidate in the byelection who was on record opposing the expansion of the Dresden landfill, and he won.

At first, the Ford government kept its promise, designating the site for an environmental assessment that would dictate how — or if — expanding operations of the dump in the 3,000-person town would move forward.

Now, with one of its first pieces of legislation since winning re-election a few months ago, the Ford government is planning to cancel the environmental assessment that had been heralded as a win for the community by local politicians and residents alike.

Ford’s justification for the flip-flop is that uncertainties caused by U.S. President Donald Trump demand more landfill capacity in Ontario, which heavily relies on shipping waste south of the border.

So what makes the Dresden dump special, out of the hundreds of landfills in Ontario? The premier’s office didn’t respond to questions about why or how it came to be singled out as part of Bill 5, nor any other questions on the topic that The Trillium asked its spokespeople in an email before this story’s publication.

An analysis of numerous records and data show that the developer owners of the dump property in Dresden are prolific donors to Ford’s PC Party. Together with their family members and executives of their companies, they have donated roughly $200,000 to the PCs since the year they came into power.

Records, and a couple of well-placed sources, suggest that some of those donations were for a few tickets to a political fundraiser for the PCs that Ford attended, just weeks after his environment minister at the time promised the environmental assessment.

The dump’s owners also have a history of shared ties with some of the political allies who have been key to Ford’s success over the course of his career in elected office.

The official Opposition critic for environment issues, NDP MPP Peter Tabuns, was blunt in his assessment of the various links between Ford, his party and the owners of the Dresden dump: “It stinks,” he said.

“These people who are putting forward this landfill are connected to the premier. They’ve been very generous to the Tories. They’re well-connected to the Tories,” Tabuns said in an interview. “Even though the premier made a promise during the election, he’s making sure his friends get looked after.”

The Dresden landfill site is under the ownership of a pair of corporations, with marginally different variations of the name “Whitestone Fields.” They were incorporated this January, then came to own the property through a transaction with York1 Environmental Waste Solutions Ltd. All three companies are controlled by developers Andrew Guizzetti and Daniel Guizzetti, and one of their business partners, Brian Brunetti.

The Guizzetti brothers are fixtures of Ontario’s real estate and construction industries. With Brunetti, their York1 brand of companies offers various construction, waste collection and disposal, environmental services and more.

The Guizzetti brothers also oversee Willowdale Asset Management, an umbrella including several real estate businesses with “close to $5 billion in assets under management, according to its website. Willowdale includes Empire Communities, which has built over 10,000 homes in Ontario, according to Home Construction Regulatory Authority-published data.

The Guizzetti brothers have both donated the maximum amounts an individual is allowed to contribute to a provincial party in Ontario to the PCs in multiple of the last few years, political donor data kept by Elections Ontario shows. They and people matching the names of their family members have donated around $100,000 combined to the PC party, its riding associations and candidates since 2018, the year Ford won its leadership and was elected premier.

York1 and Willowdale each stem from businesses that were first set up decades ago by elder members of the Guizzetti family

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