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Ontario’s Greenbelt, Doug Ford and an explosive audit - Categories Via RSS |
- News
- Publication Date |
- Aug 14, 2023
- Episode Duration |
- 00:24:35
Last Wednesday, Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk delivered a scathing report about the province’s plans to build on parts of the protected Greenbelt. While Premier Doug Ford had promised to preserve this vast network of vulnerable greenspace, he announced in November that the province would lift protections on thousands of acres to build more houses.
The auditor general’s report finds there’s no evidence the land was needed to meet the government’s housing target and says that it was chosen under heavy influence from a small group of well-connected developers. The report goes on to say that those same landowners now stand to make a lot of money and could “ultimately see more than a collective $8.3 billion increase to the value of their properties”.
To make sense of the report, we’re joined by an Ontario reporter with The Narwhal, Fatima Syed.
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