Not only did Doug Ford…

Not only did Doug Ford promise not to touch the Greenbelt, his proposal for it is absurd. It is not necessary to use the Greenbelt in order to address the housing crisis as there are many other options that could (and should!) be done first. By destroying these areas of the green belt, the environment and natural habitat of many plants and animals would be disturbed, which seems like an especially unfounded move when climate change is so abundantly obvious and causing so many issues already. Digging into and getting rid of protected spaces of land such as parts of the Greenbelt is only beneficial for those profiting off the proposed building/infrastructure to be put there, which, how convenient, would be those like Doug Ford and his associates (i.e. the people already with an abundance of wealth and apparently less concern for the planet as it is often those in poverty that are left to deal with the brunt of the impacts).
The solution to the Canadian housing crisis does not reside in the proposals to building on the Greenbelt. This looks like a ill-disguised plan for those in power to make more money with no guarantee for Canadians that it will result in what is promised. So much viable housing is simply unoccupied because of the unreasonable costs, that is where focus should be to address a large part of the issue rather than these proposals.