AskPippa🇨🇦 on Nostr: Anyone surprised? "In a widely-anticipated 95-page report released Wednesday, Auditor ...
Anyone surprised?
"In a widely-anticipated 95-page report released Wednesday, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk offered a damning assessment of how the province selected sites last year for removal from the #Greenbelt — a vast 810,000-hectare area of farmland, forest and wetland stretching from Niagara Falls to Peterborough that was meant to be off limits to development.
Lysyk found the selection process was largely controlled by Housing Minister Steve Clark's chief of staff — not non-partisan public servants — and was also influenced by specific suggestions from #developers with access to the chief of staff."
..."The process didn't consider #agricultural, #environmental and financial impacts..."
#Ontario #DougFord #Ford #Canada #environment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-auditor-general-greenbelt-report-1.6930390
"In a widely-anticipated 95-page report released Wednesday, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk offered a damning assessment of how the province selected sites last year for removal from the #Greenbelt — a vast 810,000-hectare area of farmland, forest and wetland stretching from Niagara Falls to Peterborough that was meant to be off limits to development.
Lysyk found the selection process was largely controlled by Housing Minister Steve Clark's chief of staff — not non-partisan public servants — and was also influenced by specific suggestions from #developers with access to the chief of staff."
..."The process didn't consider #agricultural, #environmental and financial impacts..."
#Ontario #DougFord #Ford #Canada #environment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-auditor-general-greenbelt-report-1.6930390