The owner of one of the 15 properties involved in the #Greenbeltscandal is asking the #DougFord government to exclude their plot from the provincial bill to return all that land to the protected area. Now lawyers are raising the prospect of a constitutional challenge if the legislation passes as is.
A Paris, #Ontario cattle farmer is concerned about coexisting with a proposed 400-unit subdivision. The farmland, bordered on three sides by the Grand River, has been a family farm since 1852.
More farmland gone: this farmer will likely be forced to sell - especially once the new homeowners start complaining about "the bad smell"
@CanadianCrone.
The recently appointed chair to the #Ontario Land Tribunal is Michael Kraljevic.
He & Premier Ford are long-time buddies & even played on the same Etobicoke high school football team together.
Kraljevic is now set to earn a cool taxpayer funded $1,019,875 as chair of the Ontario Land Tribunal.
Previously, Kraljevic was CEO of Toronto Port Lands Company, which owns & manages more than 400 acres of #Toronto waterfront land.
Premier Ford may look contrite & promise he's reversing the #Greenbeltscandal lands, but note he's not reversing his biggest gift to developers - #Bill23 - which offloads infrastructure costs onto municipalities.
For example, #Guelph is projecting a loss of $227 million in development charges as a result of the #DougFord govt's #Bill23 legislation passed last year.
👉 Guelph taxpayers now have pay 35% more in property tax between now and 2027.
Premier Ford's #Bill23 also gave the province power to make changes to the long-term development plans for #Guelph (and any municipality in Ontario)
Included in those changes is raising the height of buildings built in most parts of the Guelph downtown core to 23 storeys high.
a leaked letter from MPP Paul Calandra suggests that Premier #DougFord and various Cabinet ministers have doubled down to make the mayors of "lower-tier municipalities" accomplices to the #Greenbeltscandal by having them rubber-stamp the Conservative government’s forced farm, forest and wetland eating boundary expansions.
“There is simply no non-corrupt way to justify further extension of settlement boundaries"
In the midst of the #GreenbeltScandal, a reminder that #Ontario taxpayers will now pay for roads, community centres, transit, sewers etc. because of Premier Ford's Bill 23.
i.e. The Ford govt legislation will cost Hamiltonian's $14 to $25 million a year & York Region tax payers upwards of $34.9 million a year, costs that were previously carried by the developers.
Not only did #DougFord's developer buddies snag land at a profit, his #Bill23 eliminates infrastructure costs = even higher profits.
Bill 23, Premier Ford's controversial housing legislation, opened the door for the #GreenbeltScandal by weakening conservation authorities, removing environmental protection, weakening the OMB, adding “strong mayor” legislation & increasing the financial burden on taxpayers for local infrastructure.
#Bill23 is a beast. It's complex, powerful legislation that will change #Ontario even if the premier "returns" the Greenbelt lands.
Apparently, there is more to come over the next few days,
So far, the overarching mandate instructions appear generic.
The individual ministry mandates have yet to be released.
The billion dollar question : why did #DougFord waste millions of dollars fighting in court to keep the ministry mandates hidden.
"The political advantage of having a goof that "folks" can "relate to" as figurehead is that it lets the real brains of the operation work undisturbed."
The pandemic was another windfall. While Ontarians were suffering (& dying) the Conservative top-dogs were scurrying around undisturbed passing laws & legislation to cement the sell-off of a province.
Big Ford Fest rally at Bingeman's tomorrow night*.
SUPER BIG COUNTER RALLY TOMORROW NIGHT TOO!
Friday, September 8th
4:00 PM
425 Bingemans Centre Drive
Meet at the entrance to Bingemans Park on Shirley Ave.
All the unions, teachers, nurses, political parties, health coalition, & environmental groups are most welcome to come with their signs to share their concerns. #bill60#bill23
#DougFord#GreenbeltScandal#ProtestFest
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Friday, September 8th
4:00 PM
425 Bingemans Centre Drive
Meet at the entrance to Bingemans Park on Shirley Ave.
All the unions, teachers, nurses, political parties, health coalition, & environmental groups are most welcome to come with their signs to share their concerns. #bill60#bill23
"The #DougFord government is a dangerous but common combination of crooked, incompetent, and arrogant.
It thinks it can do what it wants, how it wants, because it knows best. And, hey, if that means making a handful of its buddies even more rich, well, that's how business is done!"
The next #Greenbelt Corruption Protest is this Friday evening - Sept 8, 2023 in Kitchener Waterloo. It has been planned to coincide with the Premier's Fordfest BBQ. 🔥
"To every #Conservative MPP, many whose ridings are inclusive of the #Greenbelt, the #Niagara Escarpment, the Oakridges Moraine & the Holland Marsh, you need to also be held accountable. Sitting there complicit, "safe" in your Blue ridings."
You knew.
We're looking at you too.
TODAY!
💥 An opportunity to protest Doug Ford's Greenbelt corruption.
August 27th, 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Maple Community Centre
10190 Keele St, #Vaughan, #Ontario
Help us save the Greenbelt!
Bring your own creative signs, but we will also have some on hand.
Oh my. 😉
The organizers of this afternoon's protest against #DougFord, his developer buddies & their $8.3-billion real estate swindle shrewdly located their event a few blocks from the new hospital that the Premier re-named to honour... one of his developer buddies.
August 27th, 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Maple Community Centre
10190 Keele St, #Vaughan, #Ontario
"Premier #DougFord calls the #Ontario government "a corporation" because that's how he views "his government" - an opportunity for big business to make big bucks - especially if he can make $$$ for his pals while fleecing the public of prime farm land, quality education, and public healthcare."
At a press conference today to explain away his $8 B.I.L.L.I.O.N #Greenbelt swindle, Premier #DougFord was asked how it’s possible he knew "absolutely nothing at all" about the protected lands scooped up by his developer friends.
"I don’t believe in micromanaging, I believe in delegating.” he said.
That incredulous journalist is every Ontarian right now...
Premier #DougFord stood alone today defending his government's $8.3 billion #Greenbelt scandal.
Ford's Greenbelt czar, the Ontario housing minister MPP Steve Clark, was absent but his daughter, Caitlin Clark, stood beside the Premier.
👉Ms. Clark is Premier Ford's spokesperson.
Today, the very Premier who's planning on paving over some of the best farmland in the province was cruising around with his entourage promoting... fresh Ontario-grown fruit and vegetables.
#Bill23 is a BEAST; complex & powerful legislation that will change #Ontario.
#DougFord's $8B #Greenbelt swindle is top news, but the bill also severely limits provincial conservation authorities ability to protect our watersheds, species, ravines, shorelines & parks.
Cityscapes as well - the largest authority, TRCA, revealed Ford did NOT consult with them on his decision to move the #ScienceCentre to #Toronto's waterfront despite TRCA OWNING the land the Centre currently sits on. #onpoli
Grydon Smith, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources hired sanitation co., GFL to clean up the runoff of last week’s #Etobicoke chemical fire. Unfortunately, the company could not stem the chemical runoff effectively and it breached the creeks and is pouring into Lake Ontario.
MPP Smith also pushed through #Bill23 which stripped Conservation authorities of power. #onpoli#ontario#DougFord#toronto#LakeOntario#greenbelt
he Fun fact: The aforementioned Minister of Natural Resources for #Ontario, MPP Graydon Smith, had to go to court because he violated the Endangered Species act.
Also MPP Graydon Smith 👉 "While you were busy preparing for the Canada Day weekend, Ontario's #Conservative government reversed a decades-long ban on penned hunting areas and will now allow captive coyotes, foxes, & rabbits to be used as live bait & torn apart by hunting dogs. "
Ryan Amato, the so-called "mastermind" behind #DougFord's #Greenbelt giveaway is a longtime PC staffer including stints with Patrick Brown & MPP Caroline Mulroney. According to the premier, Amato is single-handedly responsible for the entire $8-Billion scandal.
Mr. Amato had been holidaying in Italy since the release of the #AuditorGeneralReport, but has since returned. He remains on the #Ontario provincial govt payroll with full authority until further notice. #onpoli https://archive.ph/gjJ7W
“The Premier’s Office has accepted Ryan Amato’s resignation as Chief of Staff to Steve Clark, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, effective immediately.”