#ONpoli

When asked why he needs to open up the Greenbelt for developers, Doug Ford lies his face off like no politician I’ve ever seen!!!

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1) "This so-called Greenbelt"

Doug Ford is pretending like the Liberal government randomly chose 2 Million acres of land and slapped a Greenbelt label on it with no actual purpose to the specific areas chosen.

This is false. It took years to sort out.

2) "They changed it 17 times to suit their developer buddies"

There were small adjustments, but those added up to ONLY 370 acres (out of 2 Million!). One example was 5 acres for a power plant. Another was where half of an old building was on Greenbelt and half wasn't.

3) "I'm not doing that..." (changing Greenbelt to suit developer buddies)

WHAT A LIE!

Ford is doing exactly that! He is choosing specific parcels of land based on where developers want to build sprawl.

@thenarwhalca has great articles on this:

thenarwhal.ca/ford-ontario-g…

4) "People are going to have affordable, attainable homes..."

Another whopper of a lie.

The Greenbelt developers want to maximize profit. They build massive McMansions that cost $2M-$3M or more. These are not affordable by any measure.

5) @CityCynthia asked Ford why building on the Greenbelt was needed when experts say there is enough land elsewhere.

Study after study prove that building sprawl makes the 1.5M homes goal less attainable.

Ford is failing to meet his own targets.

cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

And, just to wrap this up... Ford's target of 1.5M homes in 10 years was already a lofty goal. We're now even further behind, and Ford's moves to encourage building a small number of 4500sqft McMansions on the Greenbelt make it impossible to achieve.

https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/status/1631979236096393216?s=20