Blind support of dear leader absent of any analysis of the policy in question: Check.
Misdirected ad hominem to try and shutdown disent. Check.
And for the hatrick: proudly professed ignorance coupled with apathy to the issue.
Then again, if/when Big Green decides to litigate any movement toward developing land (especially the bits allegedly "suggested" by developers) when those steps happen, it would make a similarly interesting meeting among Queen's Park legal beagles. Wonder who'd be more willing to ask the Province to be a witness on those cases re: the process?
Nobody's been able to confirm that via the public record. There was a public statement from the OPP within the past month or so saying an investigation into Greenbelt lands that started way back was still ongoing, and a short while after that, these most recent events & allegations were picked up by the RCMP.
Closest to that was the Premier's statement to media late last month:
Just spotted this as well (from earlier this year) as a potential en-fuckening factor - although Team Red Canada should think very hard before stepping into this one ...
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The original land swap goes back to around November 2022. I can't recall when (or by whom) the OPP was asked to investigate. Following that is the process of deciding what to do about the request and, if yes, conduct a preliminary review to see if a full court press is indicated. The process is slow; lead investigators, teams, project spaces, funding, have to be identified and assembled, and my guess - and that only - was that the investigation/review was trudging along when the AG, Ethics reviews came out. Seeing as chiefs of staff are appointed by the Premier's Office, regardless of what stage the OPP were at, they decided to hand it off.
Interesting statement for public consumption. Getting "shovels in the ground" on land that, a few months ago, some of which wasn't even owned by them, nor zoned, nor serviced nor all of the other things that go along with developing a subdivision, "start building" is a bit laughable.
Perhaps. I wonder how the resident municipal governments are feeling about all of this.
We don't have a problem and the city is welcoming it.
Maybe. A lot of assumptions to get there- have they gone void, were they replaced with a new permit for something else that has been built, etc. But there's certainly some sort of material permitted stock unbuilt, to go with a building pace that still can't keep up with the permitting pace.
I live in a subdivision that’s growing fast just streets over from me, and that also had a similar Re designation of green space to within the urban boundary, permitting more development. From watching the tranches of lot sales, and seeing it all build every few days when I duck into the new part, I definitely get the sense that the throttle is available trades. Everything’s good to go for probably the next hundred houses here, but gauging by the foundation pours they’re only starting a couple new ones a week.
The builder has likely figured out exactly how many houses they can do a month with the trades that they have available to them.
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There is a part of me that suspects the more the media tries to make people care about the Greenbelt stuff, the more they risk making people care less.Premier Doug Ford’s 2018 mandate letter promised to hold cabinet ministers accountable | Globalnews.ca
In Doug Ford's 2018 mandate letters, obtained exclusively by Global News, the premier laid out his high expectations for incoming cabinet ministers and plan to ensure integrity.
It will be interesting to see what specific mandate letters contain.
My understanding is that a fair portion of it comes down to choking supply to increase demand, which increases prices.