TThe government should be…

TThe government should be ashamed and the people of Ontario should be outraged by the last announcement done by the Housing Minister Steve Clark; last year, when asked he said that the Greebelt will not be touched by developers; here is his promise today, when 7500 acres will be removed, animals and birds, forest, wetland and farm land will be removed and asphalted for houses; the government made the announcement while all eyes were on a strike by 55,000 education workers. Premier Doug Ford's legacy of “environmental destruction” gets worse every day. This might be the most sinister Queen’s Park Friday Dump!
Public backlash in 2018 prompted Doug Ford to backtrack on an election pledge to allow housing development in the Greenbelt, with him promising he would maintain the protected area in its entirety.
“The people have spoken. I'm going to listen to them, they don't want me to touch the Greenbelt, we won't touch the Greenbelt,” Ford said at the time.
Ford also made a similar vow in 2020 not to “touch” the Greenbelt, saying “we won't build on the Greenbelt” while facing criticism after the chair and six members of Ontario's Greenbelt Council resigned over differences of opinion with the government.
Providing more protected land elsewhere will not help. And this is on top of trying to built this new HWY 413 -another slap in the face for the people of Ontario who like these greens area of forest and untouched land
Why not building these needed homes/houses in the area that is not protected ? Or the government of Ontario, and Doug Ford in special want to keep their promises to their main party donors- the developers who are hungrier for more profit!
And do you think that these houses will be available for the middle class people ? Most likely not!
STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GREENBELT AND DO SOMETHING BETTER INSTEAD !