To hear Doug Ford tell it,…

To hear Doug Ford tell it, Ontario is bursting at the seams, folks. We just need to let out the Greenbelt a few notches and everything will be fine.

As usual, the truth lies elsewhere.

Ford’s plan to carve up the Greenbelt is not about tackling the housing crisis. It’s about helping land speculators and developers turn their millions into billions.

There is plenty of land approved for development within existing urban boundaries. Even the government’s own Housing Affordability Task Force concluded that a shortage of land is not the cause of the housing crisis.

The same task force said that the Greenbelt, other environmentally sensitive areas, and farms must be protected.

But the Ford government’s pro-sprawl, anti-environment approach to housing – and virtually everything else – becomes more obvious and more troubling every day.

They insist that we have to choose between building housing and protecting the environment.