NDP Leader Jim Dinn is slamming what he sees as the provincial government’s lack of transparency in the recent sale of the old Airport Comfort Inn, now operating as transitional housing as Horizons 106.

A Brampton-based numbered company recently purchased three Comfort Inn hotels from the Clayton Hospitality Group according to AllNewfoundland and Labrador.

The provincial government is leasing the east-end property for $21 million over three years, but says the new owners intend to “maintain the facility for its existing purpose.”Dinn says the transaction leaves a lot of questions, including whether the facility will remain transitional housing for a certain number of years, or whether it could be reverted back into a hotel and force residents out.

He says the fact that the province has said nothing about the sale is “unacceptable,” and now the millions government is spending on leasing the property is flowing out of the province to Ontario.