HEARTLAND DOCS UPDATE

Wheeler had knowledge, information and relationships that were not available to other vendors and the time period for submitting proposals, although meeting minimum policy limits, also favoured Dr. Patrick Brown to seek re-election as Brampton mayorĪfter extensions and overruns, the final cost of the BramptonU research and advocacy was more than $600,000, city staff have previously said. Paul Vicente, Brown and his chief of staff that Wheeler would be flying into Brampton from Halifax to have “a further discussion” about the BramptonU project. Two months later, on March 11, Santos told the city’s CAO, her ward partner Coun. “Let me know if you would like to discuss further, have any questions or if you’d like to speak to David Wheeler directly,” the email said. Santos sent an email to Brampton’s CAO introducing her “mentor” David Wheeler, who she said had written a blog post discussing the case for a university in Brampton. The documents gathered by investigators and seen by Global News show ASI and possibly SRA were involved in a non-competitive contract before winning a tender process, with Santos playing an active role in initiating the involvement of Wheeler.

HEARTLAND DOCS UPDATE

The update letter issued at the end of August by investigators into the project said “an unfair advantage” was provided to SRA and ASI when they won contracts to complete work on the BramptonU project.

(SRA), employed Rob Godfrey, a former Patrick Brown ally from his time as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. The other successful company, Stakeholder Research Associates Canada Inc. Patrick Brown accused by 5 councillors of shutting down Brampton meeting to avoid scrutiny

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