The staffer at the centre of the controversy has resigned, the RCMP may investigate, and the Premier and Housing Minister admit the process was flawed. So why is the plan still under way?
and will decide whether to launch a full investigation. In the meantime, the province’s integrity commissioner is pursuing his own investigation into the affair.
Where there’s this much heat, there’s usually an inferno. But lost in the blaze appears to be the fact that Mr. Ford is refusing to revisit the decision. That is an utter scandal, and he should reconsider it – or at least put the plan on hold, especially as new developments emerge. Any government with a sense of right and wrong and concern about public trust would do this while underinterests and priorities apparently lie elsewhere, and certainly not first and foremost with the people of Ontario. Indeed, any premier and housing minister with the tiniest shred of integrity would have resigned themselves after a report as scathing as the auditor general’s.and Mr. Clark claim to have had no knowledge of how lands were chosen for development under the Greenbelt plan.
A government, like the proverbial fish, rots from the head down. And this government has rotted far beyond its head. Mr. Ford’s government can’t be trusted, and it certainly shouldn’t be given the benefit of the doubt on the Greenbelt plan – or anything else. Ideally, the government should cancel the Greenbelt plan altogether; moreover, Mr. Ford and Mr. Clark should resign. Naturally, this a lot to ask of a government so prone to under-delivering on matters of integrity and competence.
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