The greenbelt is meant to be…

The greenbelt is meant to be left untouched and this plan includes modifying it to get around the act that protects it. Condos are not affordable housing, by and large they are the chips in the international poker game that is speculative Canadian real estate investment. This plan amounts to a paltry 3% of the 1.5 million homes the government hopes to build, at the cost of destroying protected land that Canadians do not want touched. Nothing about this makes any practical or moral sense, but it will make crude financial sense to anyone who has the potential to profit off of this move. Like Mr. Ford himself.

Stop listening to the lies of profit-minded politicians, who have no interest in respecting Canada's land, no stake in your lives, and no real motivation to improve the housing situation that they themselves are actively making worse in Canada. Canada needs real rules put in place about home ownership, reselling limits, limits about the amount of homes one should be able to own at once, requirements that homeowners actually use their houses rather than treat them like assets. Rezone areas in Ontario dedicated only to constructing single-family houses and build more affordable housing, apartments, lower-rent level condominiums. Anyone who has been out to any suburb in the GTA can tell you that there is more than enough empty land that could easily fit the 1.5 million home goal via lower-cost condominiums. I have seen single large lots in rural Markham that could fit 10,000 people into condos easily. There are thousands of such lots.

What a joke this proposal is. The domain of politicians is the domain of the liar, of the trickster. Where it seems that the only rule of law is that no truth shall be uttered in place of a more profitable lie. It feels hopeless to any regular citizen that politics is still treated like an industry when it should endeavor to operate like a service. Housing is such a problem that most of our younger generations will grow up and never own a home. How will the housing market look in 30-40 years when 90%+ of Canadians do not own housing? When almost all housing is owned by rich investors and investment firms? Already there are an absurdly high number of unused condo units which are no doubt part of the speculative investment scheme. In 2021, there were estimated to be 65,000 unused condo units in Toronto alone. What a farce this whole plan is. Please don't let Mr. Ford distract you from the real problems faced in the housing crisis, from what really has to be done.