Greenbelt scandal: New Ontario housing minister faces questions on land swaps review | FULL

considering global warming they should not be allowed to touch one tree or water wetlands

you guys keep on voting him!

HOLD DOUG FORD ACCOUNTABLE.

The housing con job is ushering in your demise. Prior to the 1970s it was difficult to sell a home and might take two to five years. The average price in Vancouver at the end of the sixties was $23,939. In Winnipeg $13,588. A house was a place to live in and while homes were bought and sold they did not form a basis for trade in financial paper in an unregulated monopoly market.

In the early seventies the stage was set to change that. The newly elected premier of BC, for example, did not take a slow boat to China. The lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997. The Triads (gambling, drugs, prostitution) would launder some of their ill-begotten gains in Canada if conditions were in place that caused property prices to escalate.

Agricultural Land Reserve laws were implemented that inspired movements to place a halt on the use of all land. Citizens were cunningly manipulated with a guilt complex into proving that they were a people of compassion and not deniers by rushing to rescue trees. Each attempted use of land was met with organized opposition.

Instead of increasing acreage commensurate with the needs of a rising population land was declared “protected.” Those most affected cheer each time another tract of land is protected that through their action are pricing home ownership beyond reach and tightening the snare on their own demise. Canada has 895,000,000 acres of forest—lacking perspective—none of which may be spared for housing. The equivalent of a molecule in a football field would eliminate the shortfall and bring housing prices back to a normal level. Citizens of a democracy will not allow that to happen.

Building upwards while halting expansion outwards causes home prices and rents to skyrocket creating a gulf between property owners and the remainder that in major urban areas is measured in millions of dollars. Prices and rents cannot come down without a housing surplus.

The earth and the increase that it yields was not promised to Canadians. Couples that realize that their children cannot become established do not raise families. Canada functions like a gigantic enterprise shunting the lifetime earnings of residents exacted through rent, directly into the pockets of the chosen few, of which the aggregate income dwarfs the amount of revenue government earns through taxation. Citizens are being finagled into demanding rentals, not homes. Tenancies are replenished by immigration. Boundaries are redundant.

Persons at each income level were able to afford to buy a home, before the use of land was halted, as homeowners whose income increased moved upwards to more expensive homes leaving their old homes to be acquired by new entrants. (You can purchase a three-bedroom home in Detroit for $15,000).

Before persons are admitted to public office, whether elected or employed at any level, they should be placed under oath and required to swear to the truth of their response to these questions: Is your ulterior motive in becoming a public servant to place a halt on the use of the land resource? That was not promised to Canadians? That will cause home prices to skyrocket and shunt the lifetime earnings of citizens exacted through rent directly into the pockets of the chosen few? Unjustly enriching them and leaving residents impoverished and homeless?

Paul Calandra's appointment amounts to nothing more than Ford swapping-in yet another parrot. The difference between Steve Clark and Paul Calandra? Absolutely NONE. FORD NEEDS TO RESIGN. PERIOD

Nice to see Marit getting appropriately angry about this farce finally.

I will not vote for this party again based solely on this issue. It reeks of corruption, poor judgement and incompetence.

The real scandal is the fake bubble green belt land created in the GTHA and the dependancy on the 400 series and the commercial truck traffic.

We live in the future yet still act like its prime 1970's open highway driving. Is everyone smoking the hopium just to feed there kids? Its a shame that this place is where people want to be and yet its planned by gorillas smoking crack or white collar criminals and the people will keep coming because the rest of the world is that much worse. Or we just have less freedom and more faith in our system of law, which to be honest seems to be in a state of shock.

Im amazed we have such incapable leaders, or am I just surprised that they can hold public positions of power and yet have no good intention besides there own personal gain and we let them.

Im amazed Tim Hudak, after hes career in politics and then as ceo of OREA that he has not been named as part of the issue.

This province is a joke. Best bet is too get out of Ontario before it all collapses.

We are seeing the beginning of it in Toronto, the system is failing from the center and Hamilton is incapable of literally anything.

The way we build subdivions, surveys and continue the suburban sprawl for hours from cities is a god damn plague on this earth and the province. By our same building logic/ expansion, New York state should not have a god damn tree left.

Removing people from positions of power in decions making is our best hope for AI. We need only the best options for the future, not the most convienient and deterimental to our environment.

There is no future in Ontario the way its going besides self impossed economic slavery. Run before they dont let us out

What is your conservation expertise??

Housing crisis?? Where are the low income housing?

Like Trudeau they will get away with everything.

Building Homes >> HOW ABOUT HIGHWAYS TO HANDLE THE TRAFFIC FIRST & HOSPITALS

Do not trust him>>he will not look direct into Camera or yhour eyes

FORD has completely dug in. Attaching a new face is meaningless. Follow the money. What is FORD getting out of the Greenbelt deal?

I promise to really try and make sure the boss does not get compromised.

So the new housing minister continues to sling the same crap. Why am I not surprised? Get busy with the coverup, Calandra. Public, open, & accountable my butt!

How is building more homes going to help people buy and afford homes , the building materials have gone up , taxes will go up to cover sewage, roads , etc , building more homes will never bring the prices down !

Implement ALL 15 of the Auditor General's recommendations now. The Auditor General's report was clear there is no need to build on the greenbelt to achieve the 1.5M homes goal. Doing nothing while waiting for a review by the end of the is just another stalling process. Cancel the $8.28B in development rights for free that were provincial assets. Release all communications on the greenbelt rezoning. Use existing land outside the greenbelt first. Get laws passed that development rights owned by the province must be valued before they are transferred.

Ford government made Ontario really unaffordable he's only helping people with deep pockets.