Ontario Greenbelt development plan 'favoured certain developers,' report finds
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- The Ontario government's process for choosing protected Greenbelt land to open up for housing development was biased in favour of certain developers and landowners who had timely access to the housing minister's chief of staff, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk said Wednesday. Premier Doug Ford acknowledged the process could have been better, but said this was necessary to meet the province's housing target of 1.5 million homes.
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"We're in a housing crisis so corruption is perfectly fine!" - Translation of Doug Ford's words.
Justin Trudeau logic. We're in a housing crisis, let 1 million more immigrants in. Zero housing zero immigration. PERIOD.
Canadian cities has a housing crisis, not only Ontario. But they dont resort to corruption.
Those developers directly involved in manipulating the government, should be immediately disqualified from any further participation in this program!
Disqualified? Should be investigated and brought before the law for corrupting the democratic process and social good
Agree 100%. Ford & his ministers are convinced they are ENTITLED & BEYOND the reach of the law.
If you want to solve the housing crisis, start heavily taxing uninhabited condos and apartments. But they won't do that because those are owned by their donors.
There are towers here Vancouver that look like maybe 20 people live in them.
They are bank accounts for the CCP members that use there positions in China to extort money from the Chinese citizenship.
It's exactly what Doug Ford did with Bill 27 for recruiting companies in Ontario. He favoured big business over small business. His priority is kickbacks from those that benefit HIM the most!
100 % correct - fords party is CORRUPT - SIMPLY LINING THEIR POCKETS many many ways.
The fact that Doug Ford is a premier(politician) of any province is an embarrassment.
It's fitting for a country that's elected Trudeau 3 times.
Canada has no idea what it's doing.
The fact that your PM is responsible for the shortage of ANY affordable housing is an embarrassment. Don’t blame your premier. He didn’t allow over a million new Canadians into Canada in a year! Ford is doing what he can to develop new homes. You probably want to elect someone who wants to build more wind farms. Oh, wait. Did that already. It was disaster. And Ontarians already showed their response to her governance and ideas
There is literally so much available land in GTA still. Just around my area there is literally empty lots sitting around with condo proposals but nobody is digging. Why do we need to disrupt the greenbelt? Start building on all the vacant land in the cities!
NIMBYISM. That's the reason.
***clutches pearls*** I'm shocked.
“We’re in a housing crisis so this is a perfect opportunity to exploit the circumstances and transfer taxpayer wealth to private individuals in my economic class - just like we historically do with every major crisis in history.” - translated.
There is a ton of land that was already approved for housing. This was not needed at all and served no other purpose than giving big bucks to his buddies. They should be checking his and his families back accounts as well.
Other developers should sue the government for the unfair process.
We are in a housing crisis, we need to break laws to do so to line our friends pockets.
Did he not hear there is plenty of land. Leave the greenbelt alone! He needs to be fired immediately! I don't believe a word out of his mouth.
There's plenty of land all around the Golden Horseshoe, it's called the yellow belt. Enough land to last to 2030.
Fire them all. Starting with ford
CCPA published a report showing how far our housing crisis reached in terms of wage and rent gap. It also shows how wrong the usual argument of demand and supply relying on private developers. Dumping out in cheap price our precious green belted public properties to private developers who will mostly build expensive condos to maximize profits. On top of it, give them subsidies and tax cuts out of our tax money and build infrastructures for them as well from our tax money again. Instead, with this wasted money, imagine how many public affordable units the provincial government could build, if that happened, Ontario should not have known the current housing crisis and rental crisis where hourly rental wage is almost twice of the minimum wage and still bigger than median wage. Housing is not a commodity, it’s a very basic human right.
You don't say.........I have had enough of criminals running this country and province.
Unless these developers heads, and Doug go to prison, what function is this investigation
STOP LETTING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE CANADA MOVE HERE!!
Politicians usually mean "fertile farmland being used to grow food" when they say "empty field".
I bet money old Doug got his palms greased with developer bribes. There is a way to go about land use decisions and it does not include going through private firms.
Doug invited all the developers to his daughter's stag and doe party at the cost of $1000 per plate, which is an absolute bargain for the developers considering the value of their land in the Greenbelt increased by $8 billion!
Just build everywhere, Ontario needs houses
The corruption is pathetic
Why wouldn't it favour developers>? They will be doing the building.
Who makes the last decision what he did in his answer is so upsetting he should resigned forthwith
Names of the developers please wtf this journalism is
The Wynne Liberal gov't took land out of the greenbelt at least 17 times and no fuss or uproar happened then. The areas were in Clarington, East Gwillimbury, Markham and even wetland adjacent lots in Pickering. One of them became a for a golf course. Should we investigate who benefited from those times? Who were the developers back then?
YES.....i dont care what party does it.. corrupt is corrupt stop with this they did this so we can do this
Save our Farm land. No Farmers? NO FOOD
Why do these wealthy developers need to bribe Doug Ford when going through the proper process would allow them to legally build housing on the greenbelt? It's puzzling that the RCMP International Crime Division Unit is investigating this, given that they typically handle national threats to Canada. I often hear the term "well-connected developers." To whom exactly are they connected? People or countries that are sanctioned?
Grown the Greenbelt ? It's already green, now you've just made land further away from the city a designated Greenbelt. Kinda defeats the purpose. The reason we have protected areas around the city is so that all the land isn't used for development, at least some of it remains green. And , we didn't even hear about it being sold off until after it was done. First they should publically remove the Greenbelt designation so that ALL developers have a chance to purchase the properties, not just Ford's developer buddies that contributed to his campaign.
The greenbelt is a socialist wall to keep the power center in Toronto.
It seems at all levels of Government, the people who are put in charge don't seem to know what is going in their own offices, this needs to change and yes AT ALL LEVELS !!!
Why? It doesn't impact those in charge, so why should they care?
Please don’t pull the wool over your own eyes. Guaranteed 1000% Ford was in on the deal.
HUGE $$$ INVOLVED
In all Canada housing prices double since 2015. So is not only Ontario.
OH NO! Another Witch Hunt.😨😨😨
This fraud has been going on in the GTA for decades.
No confidence vote!!!
With Trudeau's immigration numbers this won't put a dent in the housing needs
And Doug Ford supports the immigration, said so himself.
Immigrants can't afford our houses unless 4 families live in one house
So the developers are giving back the properties... Right
It looks like it will not happen. More stall tactics. I remember a mayor in Calgary. He was a developer. Before he retired from office he made sure an LRT line went out to empty land that he and his buddies owned.
He gave away land for virtually free, but it's worth 8 billion dollars. And people think he is not selling out Ontario health care to Galen Weston jr for billions too? Ha.
STOP IMMIGRATION PROBLEM SOLVED.
How is this not a Crime with real consequences? Instead he continues to shovel the same crap! I can guarantee he helped developers along his new proposed highway as well…..removing farm lands, and last I checked we need food in this province as well! Please remember this come election time.
Developers assume all the risk. Takes 15 years to develop a farm field into serviced residential lots. How about lowering the building permit costs that have gone from $15k (2017) to almost $60k (2023) which is passed directly on to consumers. Not saying doughie ford didn’t help his friends but come on now
well duh
⚔️Housing versus agricultural land: How many times have we said, that we just have to remove a few more trees for community expansion or only •03% of crop land, to add more housing? Over loading our country w unplanned accommodations for immigrants, is irresponsible governing. Migrants must be put into a wait state, until they have enough accommodations, to settle them comfortably, perhaps. The latest waves of new arrivals, have high expectations of a better life. The UK had a better idea, for a temporary wait state, that does make sense: It’s not practical to keep flooding Canada w more ppl, without being prepared. Nature thins out over crowding. Put too many small pet birds in the same gage, and they will suffocate the weaker birds. Yes we have patience, because we have laws to protect us. But, we know what occurs when ppl some are cornered, due to over crowding: Our wiggle room runs out. Less agricultural land, and more adding more ppl, is an unplanned, and irresponsible approach.🛡️
Why don’t you develop the lands beyond green belt like in Kingston, Kitchener, London, and Owen Sound! Connect better transit or move the businesses there! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ These people want to corrupt on the pretext of housing crisis! None of ua going to get a house in better price! These gonna super expensive so realors get all the money! And Dougie get all the commission 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️💩💩🤮
Omg so it's ok to commit a crime as all as it's for a good reason... that is what she is saying!?!?
So does this law go for All Canadians???
Ford must go!
OVBIOUSLY
Mafia ties
Mafia is very strong!
Well I was SHOCKED!!!!.... lol
Politician = Co rru p tion.
Those glassy eyes Dougie, you back on the pipe?
Big waste of money to find truth now WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT CANCEL THE CONTACTS BECAUSE THEY WERE OBTAIN UNDER DECEITFUL BEHAVIOR TO TAXPAYERS THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED IN IT'S TRACKS DON'T ALLOW BUILDING PERMITS
Housing crisis…. therefore conservative cronies need Greenbelt land for a song? Nice try Doug. This makes the Ornge scandal look like a minor shoplifting incident.
Lol Is this a NEWS that developers who pay the politicians get the preferential treatment.. This happens no matter what party is in power. This reporting is useless. what did premier Wayne (what ever her name). The Anchor should be fired.
how are we even in a housing crisis who tf can afford to buy a house lol
Perfectly ok
May I plz have some 1000 Island dressing with that word salad Mr. Ford. lol
A Canadian Trump!!
Too many people moving to canada is costing canadians
😂 common sense, nepotism
Ford is Full of Rotting Cheesecake..
Ok so what's the problem? Yes of course it was given to these developers! Who else has the money, equipment or manpower connections to the unions to get this housing crisis resolved? What did you think was gonna happen? Sell a few lots here and a few lots there?....this is a huge undertaking folks that requires a lot of money and influence to get underway!....so yes he gave the contracts to the big dogs! A project like this has the potential to bankrupt smaller companies if they're not set up properly!...I don't like Dougie at all but c'mon people use your heads!
The problem is you believe there is a housing crisis just because a politician tells you there is one.
They'd put a fire hose connected to an open hydrant in your basement and tell you you have a flooding problem, so you better buy more mops.
Because .....their buddy owns a mop factory
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