With his Progressive Conservatives embroiled in controversy over a Greenbelt land swap, Premier Doug Ford is lashing out at the Liberals for changes they made to the environmentally sensitive swath.
“The premier’s own housing task force did not say we need to swap land in the Greenbelt to get housing built,” said Liberal MPP Stephanie Bowman .is the solution to the housing crisis and are they the same people who will stand to profit from this decision?” demanded Bowman.“However, it appears that private land developers and at least some members of this Conservative government are the only ones who think paving over farmland and the Greenbelt is the solution.
“What the previous government did was not right, but it is minimal in comparison to what the Ford government is doing,” said Schreiner. Schreiner said the moves “are going to create a speculative bubble within the Greenbelt that’s going to make it very hard for farmers to be able to afford land to be able to farm profitably — because all that land is now going to be part of land speculation.”
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