The premier delivered a brazen performance designed to leave Ontarians confused after Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk released her Greenbelt report
“Do you often start questioning your own perception of reality within your relationship? Do you question your sanity altogether?Which brings us to Toronto, on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 11 a.m.Ford government’s moves in the Greenbelt
The Auditor-General’s report is an open and shut case. She wrapped up her news conference around noon.and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark appeared before the media. In reply to the finding of a massive abuse of public trust, they offered a shower of obfuscation, denial, contrition and misdirection.The Auditor-General found that Mr.
Had the Housing Minister’s chief of staff been carrying out the wishes of his boss, and his boss’s boss? Heavens no. It was news to them how Greenbelt land had been chosen for rezoning. Cabinet had also signed off on the rezoning in a similar state of disinterest and ignorance. Allegedly. Would anything change? Oh, yes. The government is open and responsive to criticism, welcomes new ideas and always strives to do better. Mr. Ford accepted 14 of the Auditor-General’s 15 recommendations. Which sounds like something until you realize that the only important recommendation is the one the government rejects – namely that it must “re-evaluate the 2022 decision to change the Greenbelt boundaries.
Which is true, and beside the point: “According to the Ford government’s Housing Affordability Task Force, the Housing Ministry, and the Chief Planners of the three affected regions, the removal of Greenbelt lands was not needed to meet the government’s housing goals,” the Auditor-General wrote.
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