Ontario’s auditor general has found that the much-maligned decision to build a mega-spa at Ontario Place on the Toronto waterfront came at the end of a bidding process that was “not fair, transparent or accountable”. Furthermore, the taxpayer price tag for the project has skyrocketed from approximately C$300m ($228m) at its inception in 2019 to more than C$2.2bn ($1.5bn) today.

The long awaited bombshell report was released on 3 December, devoting 121 pages to the controversial redevelpment of the 1971 Modernist landscape designed by the Canadian landscape architect Michael Hough.