Last year, Housing Minister Steve Clark said the government “will not in any way entertain any proposals that will move lands in the Greenbelt, or open the Greenbelt lands to any kind of development.”
Today, Clark is announcing a 30-day consultation on removing about 7,400 acres from the Greenbelt over 15 different areas and if that proceeds, landowners will be expected to develop housing plans quickly.Ontario announces sweeping housing changes allowing up to three units on many residential lots The aim is to build at least 50,000 homes on those lands in service of the government's target of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years.
Clark says he is also proposing to add 9,400 acres to the Greenbelt elsewhere, so when factoring in the land that would be removed, the Greenbelt would grow in size by 2,000 acres. Ontario created the Greenbelt in 2005 to protect agricultural and environmentally sensitive lands in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area from development.
As they should land owners should be the only ones that decide usage
So he wants to build on a natural water filtration system in the moraine...good bye clean water and clean lakes and natural wells
It just figures… fordnation is a selfish liar.
Absolutely disgusting!
Right from the start let me say I totally agree we should NOT touch the green belt. I don’t seen anyone coming out with any ideas where to build houses. A lot of criticism but no alternatives.
You can’t just “add land elsewhere.” Put the housing on that land elsewhere. The whole point of LAND is location, location, location.
Don’t trust the PC government for an instant!
Doug Ford should resign ! He’s off his rocker
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I am sure about the cutting part. I would bet money against the adding part.
The greenbelt is part of a Liberal idea to force city dwellers to live in small boxes condos. Save farmland but build decent highways north
This was the CorruptCPC plan all along. Shame on Corrupt DougFord. ElectionsHaveConsequences FordDoesntCareIfYouLiveOrDie
FORD IS GOING TO FAR Nobody trusts him anymore since he ripped ALL OF US OFF FOR OUR WORKER RIGHTS. If he touches that green belt, we will all vote NDP. There is no sense going back to the Liberals ALREDY BLEW ITr. NO NOT GOING BACK. The only way to move forward is the NDP.
How does one “add land”? 🤦♂️
More lies Dougie Not a good time right now
Fucking hell
The most ridiculous thing to do. Canada is known for the green land and now it will be taken.
I say No. this is wrong ! Self serving individuals are the only winners here !
The solution is simple; Create jobs outside of Toronto. Everyone goes outside of Toronto. For example, I would not live in Toronto if there was a job opportunity outside of Toronto.
Developers to put unafgordable homes on greenbelt, inaccessible by transit with taxpayers footing bill for development cists.
This is a joke and always has been. If you had enough money to throw at the right people you could do whatever you want. No real change as far as I’m concerned.
This will not be affordable housing. They will be luxury homes with a few townhomes by the highway.
Unnecessary idea by dictator Douglas and his government. DougFordisdestroyingontario DictatorDoug
I sincerely hope Ontarians come out in droves to peacefully but strongly protest this bull💩!U can't let this bully destroy the beauty of the Greenbelt. I'm sure there are farmers close to the city limits willing to sell their land. Expand the city rather than destroy what's w/in
Slippery Ford slips the green belt deal thru for his developer buddies while distracting everyone else with the CUPEOntario cupenat CUPE_Media notwithstandingclause
Completely opposed to this!
This destruction will be unfixable and will hurt us all.
Someone needs the land for a big project in good expensive area and here it is- moving it somewhere else...
FordMustGo
How do you add land? They propose to designate land which is already ….. (wait for it) …. Green and place a label on it so they can build on that 5 years later.
No values. No morals. Just greed. Our kid’s world is doomed.
I am so disgusted with what the Ford government is doing in health, education and now our greenbelts.The Ontario people need to pay more attention and get off their rears ends and perhaps vote next election.
Pardon me? Add land?
Sounds like it’s time for a vote of non confidence. This government doesn’t have its peoples best interests in mind
This is the wrong approach.
Well of course they do
This is a very vague nothing statement by cp24.
ProtectTheGreenbelt
Where are all these people coming from? Why more people and no upgrades to supporting infrastructure?
Who voted for Doug Ford? Ruin hospitals - wait times crazy. Not able to prevent a strike in education. Now let’s ruin the environment. Do people not see he only cares about 2% of the population (Developers, those with $$$ etc
Don’t let this happen! Green space being taken away will lead to more climate catastrophes!
Too much money in his pocket from builders
FordMustGo
😢
No
Such a deceitful act. Or better said liars !
fordnation and company sure are making up for lost time these day huh? onpoli
More homes to give away to bring in people from other countries instead of helping canadians
Good.
and how, exactly, does one ADD LAND to anywhere?
omg why is this government so evil
fordnation , you gonna make land? FordfailedOntario greenbelt
Urban sprawl, at its finest. Don’t believe for one second that it is necessary.
Anything else the Cons want to ruin this week?
This makes zero sense. They are adding land to the greenbelt by making farmland part of it?
how bout no
This just makes me so sad.
No, use land elsewhere for houses!!!
DrJudithGlennie They said 'areas' HUGE swaths and the 'land' they'll add back will certainly not equal what they cut. Ford also said he would not use the not withstanding clause. He is a liar.
This is a bull$h1t idea fordnation Build density and save the greenbelt
Ew
This is what Ontarians want and Ontario needs. Kudos to fordnation for practical solutions to complex problems.
He sold his soul to the devil…shoulder to shoulder
Where else you gonna fit 500k immigrants a year 🤷🏾♂️
He’s never in the house, you can’t even question him about it. FordMustGo ontpoli
Why are people surprised by this. all the P.C do is lie.
How will this impact home prices?
This is going to send home prices in Ontario tumbling.
I don't think that is how that works, liar fordnation
You will eat the b..
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Wtf!! No!!!
This move makes McGuilty and Wynne look like Saints.
And there you have it … an environmentalist friend warned me that Ford would do this.
Absolutely complete garbage. No excuse for this, sorry, none.
When Doug's lips are moving you know he is lying.
Flood plains and wetlands are where they are - protecting us from floods must be left to the experts. Preserve the Conservation Authorities. Orofect the Greenbelt.
Almost like the CUPE thing is just being used as a distraction so he can slide other terrible things under the radar
Can we stop this?
Climate emergency who?
What a shortsighted proposal!
Can one add and take away land that is attached to the Mantle of the Earth? Is fordnation going to dig up the Greenbelt and send it to Hearst Ontario in exchange for some pretty rocks? fordnation is a liar. The NDP members who called him a liar are right.
Politicians have been in bed with developers as long as I can remember. The green belt will soon be urban sprawl. $$$$ always wins. The green belt is the most profitable land to develope.
What is it about these Fords? 🙄 One admitted to smoking Crack while holding an office and the other one just acts like it? 🤷♂️
Another promise broken
Conservatives care about their rich developer friends making a buck. The environment, our protected greenbelt, global warming, sorry, that is not something our rich friends care about.
Hahahahhahahahahahahah! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 go figure Dougity McCluck F*cK would let this shiz happen 🤦♂️
Screw rural and suburban Ontario for continuously voting for these clowns. Get what you deserve.
It’s like now the covid crisis is getting under control, it’s time for mr ford to stick his head up his butt again and start being a numb brain
Add land? Wtf is that?
Of course they do because f*ck us right? It's money in their pockets so what do they care, right?
Second largest country in the world with a population of 40 million and people feel that there is a shortage of farm land? Where did they go to school?
This province is going to hell under this dictatorship of a government
fordnation destroying the Greenbelt to benefit his developer donors. Typical corruption from this guy and his 'govt'
Shocking Ford the the PC’s selling us out to the developers who could have foreseen this. Everyone that’s who.
fordnation is a disgrace. Watching from across the country at the dumpster fire that is Ontario and their poorly led province
This is what ford is focusing on. Cashing in on his investments
He will put it out there, people will get pissed off & he’ll backtrack. Not a leader who has confidence in his policy but a reactor to public pressure.
Bets that other place is northern Ontario…
They are in a roll now. 🤬
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It's 24 degrees on November 4th and you want to cut down more trees. 🤦♀️
Fire this man
StoneyHeart4 Promises made, promises broken.
Doug must have got a new sledgehammer recently. He’s just smashing and slashing it all. FordFailedThePeople FordFailedOntario
So does one go abouts fighting this
A map of lands owned by Devlopers Ford is indebted to, who just happened to own land by proposed hwy 413. Add Muzzo Group of companies and that's who's making $$ off this deal. Interesting history with the Vaughan Major Mac land deal in case any journos wanna do some digging.
No, a million times, no. Housing does not have to be an actual house. Higher density is what we need. If we kill the greenbelt, we doom ourselves. I get people need a place to live. We can’t all have houses though.
MsDhillon6A Ah yes, because we can always create new wetlands. Or something.
fordnation figures he should just hit everything at once so Ontarians have so many things to think about that they can't challenge them all. Healthcare is a mess, education is a mess, and now we're going to cut up the Greenbelt to build lots of new homes that people can't afford
No
God this guy is on a roll. It’s absolutely gutting to see the destruction he is causing across Ontario in the last what … like 48 hours, to only name a few more recent times. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED TO VOTE!!! FordMustGo FordFailedSchools ISupportCUPE
It won’t bring the home prices down. Everywhere you go in the gta and outside- you see new residential developments. And the prices are not affordable
Is there a difference. Someone explain to me please
That’s what happens when you want 500k immigrants a year…..
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Still can’t believe he was re-elected. I gave up the hope I had for this province when that happened.
More homes aren't needed. AFFORDABLE homes are needed
Wtf is the point of the greenbelt then if you just want to use it for houses as you please? Defeats the whole purpose
May litigation tie them up until the next election.
Yes, we need housing!!
Build up not out.
Deflection
This should surprise no one. All part of their plan.
People complain about housing affordability and then they want acres of Green around them.. well I guess those established already don't complain and want green belt but those on the edge of homelessness are the one to suffer, gov can't build houses in Alaska as no one will go
How is this breaking news? He said he was going to do it and yet still Ontario didn't bother to vote. The breaking news is he announced it on a Friday at the same time he was violating the constitution for education workers. Not a coincidence.
Corruption to the core?
NO NO NO NO NO NO
I believe the green belt has special qualities making it fertile and also it has underground water sources which were to be protected by the original designation. You can’t just arbitrarily replace what took thousands of years to create
What bs
that’s so dumb
Because he hadn't done enough destruction in the last 24 hours?!
….add land?
Up next, reclassifying suburban lawns as the NEW Greenbelt.
Add land elsewhere lmao
Ford is a communist piece of trash..
guess they will need to put in some more highways too then!
Doug lies all the time.
Then he's going to build Hwy 413 - where? Through the fucking greenbelt! 4 years from now we won't recognize Ontario.
I think we can all agree: the Ontario governments proposals are pretty much all garbage we don’t want. Like the only place they could think of was the green belt? Right.
Colour me shocked. Where is that 'land [from] elsewhere' coming from fordnation ? Gonna go punch some tree plugs into Northern ON wetland (you do remember Northern Ontario, right? It doesn't start/end in Muskoka) and call it a day? 🙄
Buck a beer guy wants to destroy the major source of clean drinking water for southern Ontario. 🤡🤡
Classic politics from weak politicians. Create a problem to distract citizens (cupestrike) so they won’t notice the real plan. WHY DO PEOPLE VOTE for conservatives? firelecce FordMustGo
About time, people need homes to raise families not 300 square ft studios.
so the opposite of protecting the green belt.
NEWS FLASH*** create a diversion with CUPE strike to enable them to do what they want. Has this been done before Ford tactics at their finest!!!!!
Deeply short sighted
Which means they are white washing and they’ve opened land that was never allowed before. But only half of what they originally wanted to open. Don’t put anything past this disgusting Ontario government
I was wondering when they would cave
I’d like to see one of those 413-style maps showing who owns the land that’s being cut 🧐
How about building homes 'elsewhere'? 🙄
No more homes. We have lots that people are not living in now and can't afford a house.
DoufFraud
This didn’t age well…
Ford’s really knocking it out of the park lately…
For the folks who are thanking others who didn’t vote. You do realize the candidates available were all horrible, yes?
Great idea
Doug Ford is driving nurses out of Ontario. Doug Ford is driving teachers and educational assistants out of the profession. notwithstandingclause Doug Ford is removing our green spaces and protected lands. ProtecttheGreenbelt Conservatives are killing our futures! FordMustGo
Wtf? What is wrong with ontario lately. This place sucks
Wtf... These politicians are going too far!
The real estate mafia in this country can do anything - our politicians are their puppets
Is he just begging for more protests? The Queen's Park lawn and the back side along Wellesley are already packed with protests for workers rights. Where can we hold the 'Stop taking the Greenbelt' protests? Dougie is just a mess. GeneralStrike
Build UP. More high rises, less suburban sprawl. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
The environment cannot afford Doug Ford.
Doug Ford: ‘I will never touch the Greenbelt!’ SteveClarkPC: ‘We will always protect the Greenbelt.’ Ford & Clark: ‘We’re handing over 7,400 acres of protected, critical watershed Greenbelt land to our developer donors!’ DictatorDoug DougFordLies
Disgusting
This is disgusting. Makes me so angry. 😡
Don’t bother trying to challenge it, he’ll just use the notwithstanding clause again
Ppl bitching about immigration as the cause 🙄. Southern ON alone is larger than some European countries that have 10’s of millions more ppl. We have a sprawl/planning problem not a space issue. Building single family exurbs in green belt will only make it worse
Mr Ford, go ahead with this plan and lose my vote forever..
Which contractor is Bubba's buddy? Wait and see. FordMustGo LecceMustGo
The slash and burn of the authoritarian Ford regime continues.
Is nothing sacred to the Ford government? They prefer highways to green spaces. Pave them over! They seem to have zero climate awareness. They think it’s fine to build the new Civic Hospital in Ottawa on contaminated land. What next?
Should go to the government, not to the greedy developers
I live in the suburbs. It would be hypocritical of me to oppose this.
Shocking.
Bad idea
What about the wildlife? Where do they go?
Lol. Classic Ford. He’s on a roll.
Oh great! Pumped to hear they’re making new land!
Hmmm, no!!!!! We need our greens, not buildings, relocate the immigrants elsewhere, Canada is vast!
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