The article discusses concerns about the expedient process and sustainability of recent housing legislation in British Columbia. It also highlights the reduced public opportunity for political accountability in the era of mass rezoning for more density.
In its first half-dozen years, the provincial gestures on housing have been what the Texas ranchers refer to all hat and no cattle. In any other political scenario than the poll-leading one in which the BC NDP finds itself, its five-pack of legislation in recent weeks would be considered the Hail Mary pass of a desperate government – the equivalent of what we’re seeing with Justin Trudeau’s Maritime manoeuvre on home heating oil.
Instead, the province’s government of the day is being given the long leash as if it were the government of the decade or the generation. It worries me when governments move swiftly after not moving much at all, so I have qualms about the expedient process and the sustainability of what’s been rushed into place. We are entering an era of mass rezoning for more density with a reduced public opportunity for political accountability. Let’s deal with the latter issue first. Now, it is a truism that there can sometimes be too much democrac
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