The Toronto District School Board’s real estate subsidiary, the Toronto Lands Corporation,, pursued its own policy goals, and attempted to evade a legislated pay freeze for public executives, worsening the organizations’ relationship which has been marked by “tension and distrust” for years.
“It is highly unusual in our experience for a public-sector subsidiary corporation to reach out to higher levels of government without the full support of the parent company, let alone its knowledge,” the report says.’s government sets its sights on using surplus school lands to ease the province’s housing crisis with new legislation, Bill 98. The province’s move raises questions about how much input boards will have when it comes to selling off valuable property.