'It's indefensible': Calls for Ontario housing minister's resignation follow Greenbelt report bombshell

Ontario’s opposition parties are calling on the province’s housing minister to step down after a report by the auditor general found the government’s Greenbelt development plans were “biased” and “favoured" select developers.

“It’s indefensible what we’re seeing here. Without question. If the premier or the minister want to come out and say, ‘Actually, we were just wildly incompetent. Willfully blind.’ Fine. Otherwise.

The probe, which was launched in January following requests from all three of the province’s opposition leaders, found that of the 15 land sites removed from the Greenbelt, 14 were selected over the course of three weeks by Housing Minister Steve Clark’s chief of staff, Ryan Amato, who was not identified by name in the report.

Meanwhile, Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner argued the report suggests that Premier Doug Ford"doesn't care about average people."

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