The premier wants to increase housing, a goal everyone agrees with. But Bill 23 raises huge concerns with local authorities across Ontario.
that Bill 23 will gut municipal planning, impose huge costs on municipalities, destroy wetlands, and hinder the creation of affordable housing, but Ford won’t listen. He controls the Ontario legislature and is using his majority to become more and more autocratic.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The premier wants to increase desperately needed housing and there is not a soul in the province who disagrees with that hope. But instead of listening, consulting and building consensus, Ford is set to dismantle municipal planning as we know it. And he is doing it no matter what anyone says. The association that represents Ontario’s 444 municipalities has complained that it was not given an opportunity to make representations to a legislative committee studying the bill.
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