Partners cashed in on rezoned farmland
Claude Blanchet and Henry Walsh were business associates of Mario Grilli in Île Bizard real-estate development. They made millions of dollars in the 1980s buying agricultural land on Île Bizard and then persuading the Commission for the Protection of Agricultural Land to rezone it for development. At the time, one of the two commissioners who approved the rezoning was Léandre Dion, a militant Péquiste and la...