There it is, commence the media witch-hunt.
So we are going to have the media and councilors go after Dream, Kilmer, and Tricon, three groups who have been dedicated to building purpose-built rental (often with affordable components), in a city and period of time where it was not always particularly easy to do so, and who took a chance to work with the public sector to deliver municipal and provincial vision of the West Don Lands.
It is not a revelation to anyone that various developers donated to the Ford campaign, the Wynne government and City Council introduced legislation and policy that was not popular among the developer community. Publishing a high-profile article on the topic in relations to the MZOs seem in bad taste, as it is drawing conclusions or implications of cronyism that don't necessarily have to exist. It is equally viable to believe that our public bureaucracy (Infrastructure Ontario) sought the MZO in cooperation with the developer consortium that they've been successfully dealing with for years, without involvement of the Ontario PCs, but that is not a "side" of the story presented.