Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark should have resigned in the wake of two damning reports on the Ford government\u0027s Greenbelt controversy.
In refusing to fire Clark, Ford has set that bar very low.He said he would not do it prior to the 2018 Ontario election that brought him to power — after a video surfaced of him saying he would open “a big chunk” of the Greenbelt to develop housing.
His failure to provide proper oversight of what his chief of staff was doing in carving up 7,400 acres of Greenbelt land for housing, in the finding of integrity commissioner J. David Wake, “led to some developers being alerted to a potential change in the government’s position on the Greenbelt with the result that their private interests were furthered improperly.
Wake could have recommended suspending Clark from sitting in the Legislature for a period of time, or — the harshest penalty — declaring his seat vacant.
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