Nobrega was fired from his position on the board of directors by the Ontario government last week, following the province’s auditor general’s report. Responding to calls from critics to scrap the project and start a new Request-For-Proposals (RFP) process, Nobrega said that would be difficult. “You would be looking at a lot of lawsuits,” he said. He also noted that Waterfront Toronto still had “a number of off-ramps or exit strategies” in its agreement with Sidewalk Labs. (Globe and Mail)

Talking point: “To be clear,” Andrew Tumilty, Waterfront Toronto’s media adviser, told me, “Waterfront Toronto has seen no basis for revisiting the RFP and therefore has no intention of doing so.” Regarding the lawsuit comment made by Nobrega, Tumilty said, “Unilaterally cancelling a contract with any partner months before delivery of a proposal would likely expose Waterfront Toronto to legal action and damage our reputation as professionals, and as trusted stewards of the public good,” but would not speculate on who it might anticipate legal action from. The next “off-ramp” for the project comes with Waterfront Toronto’s evaluation of the Master Innovation and Development Plan in spring 2019.