“The Chief of Staff received “packages” from “two prominent housing developers” with specific sites to target. When the lands failed to meet the development standards to allow for a removal, the criteria was changed to specifically allow pieces of land owned by developers with access to the government to be removed. Of the 7,400 acres extracted, 6,700 -- or 92 per cent -- was removed as a direct result of developer access to the chief of staff.” Just absolute, blatant corruption.
I think most of us Canadians in Ontario know Doug Ford / Ford Family are crocks. Money lines pockets, and our voice our votes don't really count in reality.
To destroy the best farmland in Ontario for housing that could be built just a few minutes further north is insane and lacks any foresight. More people and no farms. Idiotic.
Another idiocy worth noting, is how we farm to begin with. We dont bother with the inclusion of easily installed filters at field runoff drainage points, of which there are many. Phosphorus doesnt have the ability to care about its actions on the ecosystem, and neither does the greed that encourages pretending that it doesnt matter and pretending that species get to live more than only once like non atheist cats with 9 stupid fantasy themed lives.
There ia barely a sentence in this report that isnt damning. Why did they try to get this done ao fast? So no one would find out. We need a vote of no confidence against the premiere, now!
AGREED! As a renter, we just got notice that a verbalized promise was ignored, and LL is selling, trying to get out of the law of residing on property for 12 months! I blame Ford for what we and TOO MANY others are going through! We cannot afford the rents, and we have been denied a mortgage, simply b/c we live within our means and REFUSE credit cards!!! This is BULLSH*T!
@@wtfisup they get to ride the real estate bubble for the pleasure. don't be silly. no equivalency. most landlords own the buildings too... mortgages are for new money people only
If it was another party, Pierre Poilievre and CONS would be screaming corruption. At the end of the day, a handful of folks make billions on the backs of poor, hardworking families. I remember about 20 years ago when there were more houses than buyers. As a result, home affordability was achievable. Now, the housing market is manipulated to benefit a few. Even if the market is glutted right now with construction of 2 million homes, it will take years before affordability can be achieved.
Exactly. The little loudmouth is deafening silent, and even if he does bother to say something, he’ll somehow do what he always tries to do and spin it. Such hypocrisy.
there was a time when they would hide behind the flag. but now they are positioning themselves in front of it just to show that their interest is above/ahead/beyond the flag, and the nation and people that this is supposed to represent.
Gg to everyone who voted for the slime ball who also ended up raising their rent more. Imagine doing that and blaming it on Trudeau. I wish could be that oblivious.
conflict of interest undertakings is the only, most profitable, industry that remains in that nation. so it makes sense for every level of government to engage with it so they can profit and benefit from its prospects.
I also read developers no longer have to pay sewage hydro and water infrastructure into a development. The gov't will and thus the buyers will have an even higher property tax. Not sure if I read this wrong.
This is news? City councillors and mayors across both Ontario as well as British Columbia continue expediting rezoning applications for luxury developments, especially in Vancouver, in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of amenities for RICH NEIGHBOURHOODS. Just this past year, city councillors and the mayor of Vancouver expedited re-zoning applications luxury developers applied for and got $420M in amenities for already rich neighbourhoods. While more and more tents and drug addicts popped up on East Hastings and while zoning for affordable apartment buildings, supportive housing, etc sit collecting dust constantly being delayed. City councillors are a major MAJOR problem when it comes to combatting the affordable housing crisis.
The AG just verified what we knew all along! Doug Ford you and your housing minister should resign today. In your response today to her report, you said you had to build on the Greenbelt. Before you even opened the greenbelt your 1.5 million homes were already designated to spaces OUTSIDE the greenbelt by your own housing ministry.. so why open up the greenbelt? You also reduced developers fees so what were you talking about fees would improve roads, hospitals,school etc, how will that happen with the developers reduced developers fees.?
Developers and land owners stand to make over 8 billion dollars for the Green Belt parcels. How much is going into Ford's pocket? Burlington says it wasn't necessary to use Green Belt areas for housing. They already had land zoned for it..... Greed over green.
Ontario is over 1,000,000 square kilometres in size (bigger than Texas), but they just can’t figure out where else to build their luxury mega-mansions, while Ontarians are in the midst of the worst affordable housing crisis ever seen.
Housing should not be an investment option. This causes most of the problems. The houses are cheaply made and sold for crazy profits. Buyers have no rights. We need Seller Beware laws.
@@Annapurna818 The important thing, is you want politicians that understand that homelessness frostbite never really produces afterlives. If they fail that cognitive litmus test, we really shouldnt traditionally overlook that in favor of their ability to distract away from core concerns.
@babitaramlal6483 I think you would call them a puppet. Because they are not doing their job. They are supposed to investigate the government on all platforms. Including Canada, not just parts of. Without an appointment ethics minister of Canada who investigates the puppets. 🙈🙉🙊
Not sure why Steve Clark kept interrupting and answering for Doug Ford. Also, curious how much one of the affordable homes being built in the green belt going to cost?
Well all those Ford supporters may as well admit they handed over protected greenbelt lands that should have been saved for future generations. So when they see the developers driving their Rolls Royces' remember you handed it to them. Sorry friends you conservative supporters should not complain about this nor the policy of Mayors overruling their councils even though you say you believe in democracy.
so let me get this straight, the housing tsar in ontario, the person responsible for a massive housing initiative worth billions is not doug ford the premier of the province, not steve clark minister of municipal affairs, no, it was some dude who worked in clark's office..is this some kind of massive joke?
Anyone wanna take a guess on how many times Donut Doug say’s ’folks’ in his press conference. It seems to go up based on how bad the transgression. I’m thinking at least 30 for this one.
I know nothing of politics, but I figure I could run. On that basis I’m as qualified as the rest of these yahoos. My outstanding qualification? I’m incorruptible. I know the difference and understand the consequences of lying. It’s a real shame the yahoo’s don’t, and I include all parties in that last statement.
1.5 million homes in 10 years. Housing ministry had allocated the entire 1.5 million housing to Ontarios municipality. So the purpose of the greenbelt was..... to secure fords donors for the next election. We are all complaining here but the turnout was 43% in the last election. So we get what we get.
Should look into simple yet decent laneway housing solutions, retrofits to prexisting buildings, building out into the lake can produce viable affordable ontario living. Catholics, start wearing a rubber. We are running out of places for the stork to find a chimney.
This guy ford is so crooked. Show some more news coverage on this topic opposed to some of these ridiculous things that Toronto & area or even Canada cover.
Oh that our federal government would take notice on how to have the integrity to take responsibility for their multiple ethics violations...and resign, for the good of the country!!
If we put empathy first in the development of automation, it really would be our species putting its best feet toward so we start creating a sustainability for all other species that we should be held responsible for. If we stop chasing bank notes because automation doesnt have to be programmed for a user fee like a ATM, only then can we win the human race of our lives. This would greatly effect urban planning.
All governments everywhere are corrupt. The quality of people who go into politics makes it so. Only sycophants, scammers, and attention seekers. Democracy is broken. There should be a vetting process and professional group overseeing politician wannabes and politicians.
@robertghazarian3075 all it takes is one person.. The entire party is never corrupt. Just like every job... some people are there because they care and some are there for themselves.
@@Annapurna818 Her tenure's at an end and that her office's recommendations are toothless and useless. What she's saying is that ppl keep voting against their interest when they know that the politician that they voted for isn't going to keep their promises.
People want more houses built, but restrict the land on which to build. The people are screwing themselves. Cities have to keep expanding to meet the housing demand.
It's hilarious they bring in 1 million in 1 year and everyone cries they have to build houses, if people want Canada to stay green stop bringing in mass immigration
The percentage of affordable homes required by developers was lowered by fords government. So the homes will almost entirely be unaffordable to people that actually need homes whether that's by purchase or to rent.
good luck with that. you need to be an immigrant willing to live with at least 9 other people if you want access to affordable housing that isn't tofu apartments and condos
What we need is a stop to foreign investors. I work on construction sites where homes Stay vacant for years... and we need to start bringing in imagrannts who build homes not doctors and engineers that can't practice. People in the trades are retiring they are getting old.
FORD NEEDS TO BE FIRED
Jailed is more like it.
@@ronturner3598 💯%
@@JEdwarrd you were great on big brother
@@ronturner3598 thank u. lol
😅Wonder if he's still snorting and dealing?
The deal should be canceled! It’s outrageous!
Everybody involved should step down as well
And Doug should pay any costs for breaking a contract.
Thank you for reporting something that actually needs to be brought to light and stopped from happening. Good work.
I believe it’s called corruption
thats for sure
“The Chief of Staff received “packages” from “two prominent housing developers” with specific sites to target.
When the lands failed to meet the development standards to allow for a removal, the criteria was changed to specifically allow pieces of land owned by developers with access to the government to be removed.
Of the 7,400 acres extracted, 6,700 -- or 92 per cent -- was removed as a direct result of developer access to the chief of staff.”
Just absolute, blatant corruption.
This is why I have problems as a public servant. I have integrity and ethics.
@@Annapurna818 Bet you don't work at Queen's Park.
Graft
So how do these deals work then. Personally nobody has mentioned what this gift was to the housing minister. A mug?
I think most of us Canadians in Ontario know Doug Ford / Ford Family are crocks. Money lines pockets, and our voice our votes don't really count in reality.
So are the Trudeau’s
it is shocking that this whole greenbelt transfer can still be processed/finalized despite outright corruption.
Because Canadas justice system is weak as piss !
Nature will suffer the corrupt greed of Our governance.
Money talks loudly in business and politics
To destroy the best farmland in Ontario for housing that could be built just a few minutes further north is insane and lacks any foresight. More people and no farms. Idiotic.
Another idiocy worth noting, is how we farm to begin with. We dont bother with the inclusion of easily installed filters at field runoff drainage points, of which there are many.
Phosphorus doesnt have the ability to care about its actions on the ecosystem, and neither does the greed that encourages pretending that it doesnt matter and pretending that species get to live more than only once like non atheist cats with 9 stupid fantasy themed lives.
It's actually criminal.
Hope they can eat the houses. Doing this at a time when we need to prioritize farmland and organic food production and climate defense.
Homes that no one can reasonably afford. But they'll walk away with pockets overflowing.
Free Northern Ontario !!!
There ia barely a sentence in this report that isnt damning.
Why did they try to get this done ao fast? So no one would find out.
We need a vote of no confidence against the premiere, now!
The conservatives have the majority..... So unless conservatives vote against their own leader it's not going to happen.
Who ever came up rule that if a dwelling was built after 2018, the landlord could raise a person's rent to whatever they felt like..
SHOULD BE FIRED
AGREED! As a renter, we just got notice that a verbalized promise was ignored, and LL is selling, trying to get out of the law of residing on property for 12 months! I blame Ford for what we and TOO MANY others are going through! We cannot afford the rents, and we have been denied a mortgage, simply b/c we live within our means and REFUSE credit cards!!! This is BULLSH*T!
That's what you get when you vote for Conservatives. Conservatives favour the privileged.
Publicly flayed would be more appropriate
@ladyliberty5771 what do you think landlords are paying for mortgage its even more expensive for them then it is for you
@@wtfisup they get to ride the real estate bubble for the pleasure. don't be silly. no equivalency. most landlords own the buildings too... mortgages are for new money people only
If it was another party, Pierre Poilievre and CONS would be screaming corruption.
At the end of the day, a handful of folks make billions on the backs of poor, hardworking families.
I remember about 20 years ago when there were more houses than buyers. As a result, home affordability was achievable.
Now, the housing market is manipulated to benefit a few.
Even if the market is glutted right now with construction of 2 million homes, it will take years before affordability can be achieved.
Exactly. The little loudmouth is deafening silent, and even if he does bother to say something, he’ll somehow do what he always tries to do and spin it. Such hypocrisy.
Pierre is a landlord with rental properties.... Many of which he rents out to fellow conservatives and that rent is paid for by taxpayers.
Okay how obstructing green belt for construction can help,how building more homes cant be a better option
If by influence you mean they bought him? Then, yes.
Can't Ford be audited and found out where he got 50 million ?
@@dirtysanchez5154 like there's a record uof where it came from?
Thank you for leaving the comments on.
there was a time when they would hide behind the flag. but now they are positioning themselves in front of it just to show that their interest is above/ahead/beyond the flag, and the nation and people that this is supposed to represent.
HMM interesting thought THANKYOU!
Gg to everyone who voted for the slime ball who also ended up raising their rent more. Imagine doing that and blaming it on Trudeau. I wish could be that oblivious.
Awesome post!
He knew!!!
This is disturbing
So, how do we NOT force mobster Ford to resign in shame?
Protect the Greenbelt and protect Ontario... In other words, get rid of Doug Ford.
conflict of interest undertakings is the only, most profitable, industry that remains in that nation. so it makes sense for every level of government to engage with it so they can profit and benefit from its prospects.
So I guess you want to rid the government of influence by environmental activists?
WHAT A WASTE OF WORDS - JUST LEAVE THE GREENBELT ALONE. RULES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
ARE TO PROPERLY TAKE CARE OF LAND - NOT TO KEEP DESTROYING LANDS.
How about slowing down immigration, lessening the demand for building in a hurried fashion?
They will never learn.
The more immigrants the govt. lets in, the more votes they get...........it's not rocket science.
How about turning all Airbnb's back into homes ppl live in instead of short term rentals which shrank existing availability?
@@lizliz4186 yeah that’s not as big of a problem as you are making it to be.
@@rightwingcollectiveiq it all trickles down to these problems. Federal all the way down to municipal. Look at the big picture here.
emergency room wait times from 4 to 7 hours (even for children) and yet they are building more homes that nobody can afford to buy
Oh, to be a developer with friends in government. Always a win a win, except when you get caught.
Simply ...corruption at the highest level.
Lock him up!
I won't comment on the politics involved, but the lounge jazz before the announcement starts is priceless. Unlike this government.
I also read developers no longer have to pay sewage hydro and water infrastructure into a development. The gov't will and thus the buyers will have an even higher property tax.
Not sure if I read this wrong.
I really think whoever is doing the talking is very carefully done to keep them happy.
Everyone in there is so much with the program of corruption.
Bonnie for Premier. Down with the Slug.
This is sad man, one bad decision after another Ontario is well on its way to becoming a failed society.
canada in and of itself is on its way to becoming a gulf country lol
Lmfao
Doug is still better than Trudeau as a leader
Already there. Check the housing and refugee situation.
Free Northern Ontario !!!
This is news? City councillors and mayors across both Ontario as well as British Columbia continue expediting rezoning applications for luxury developments, especially in Vancouver, in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of amenities for RICH NEIGHBOURHOODS. Just this past year, city councillors and the mayor of Vancouver expedited re-zoning applications luxury developers applied for and got $420M in amenities for already rich neighbourhoods. While more and more tents and drug addicts popped up on East Hastings and while zoning for affordable apartment buildings, supportive housing, etc sit collecting dust constantly being delayed. City councillors are a major MAJOR problem when it comes to combatting the affordable housing crisis.
this is the same issue you decry and they are next if this goes properly.
They claim they building houses but no one can afford them.
@@Annapurna818 hedge funds and investors can
The AG just verified what we knew all along! Doug Ford you and your housing minister should resign today. In your response today to her report, you said you had to build on the Greenbelt. Before you even opened the greenbelt your 1.5 million homes were already designated to spaces OUTSIDE the greenbelt by your own housing ministry.. so why open up the greenbelt?
You also reduced developers fees so what were you talking about fees would improve roads, hospitals,school etc, how will that happen with the developers reduced developers fees.?
this in no manner surprises me, despite that it thoroughly disgusts me.
My exact thoughts.
Welcome to the CONServative reality.
Good one.😅
Stop the spa and stop the Science Centre move. Only want the land for developers.
Interesting Ford kept saying how urgent building homes is (and it is) but he has time to push a spa that most people won't use or afford.
Ok when is he stepping down in shame?
lol fords have no shame
You kidding right?
Developers and land owners stand to make over 8 billion dollars for the Green Belt parcels.
How much is going into Ford's pocket? Burlington says it wasn't necessary to use Green Belt areas for housing. They already had land zoned for it..... Greed over green.
Wow shocking a Ford on the take...You get what you vote for - or don't.
😅
Conservatives favouring greedy, rich developers. What else is new?
THAT'S why he's been so quiet🤔
Ontario is over 1,000,000 square kilometres in size (bigger than Texas), but they just can’t figure out where else to build their luxury mega-mansions, while Ontarians are in the midst of the worst affordable housing crisis ever seen.
Oh, they know where they SHOULD build. It's where they SHOULD'NT build that makes them the big bucks.......Greed over green.
Decommodify housing.
Housing should not be an investment option. This causes most of the problems. The houses are cheaply made and sold for crazy profits. Buyers have no rights. We need Seller Beware laws.
Isn't that like not wanting to barter for human rights?
@@Annapurna818 The important thing, is you want politicians that understand that homelessness frostbite never really produces afterlives. If they fail that cognitive litmus test, we really shouldnt traditionally overlook that in favor of their ability to distract away from core concerns.
So now what ? Are these people going to be held Accountable ?
The land is privately owned
Things don’t seem to be above board regarding what happened here, given the Auditor’s findings.
That is the understatement of the year sir.
Ya thinK?
Kickbacks ? Guaranteed
I hope the media follows up and lets us know what the police are doing to look into this.
Just shows how crooked Doug Ford is ....
Shocking
If Canada had an ethics minister, there could have been someone to address the concerns that were raised beforehand 🎉🎉🎉
Each Ministry has an ethics officer, the DM, but no influence over politicians.
@babitaramlal6483 I think you would call them a puppet.
Because they are not doing their job.
They are supposed to investigate the government on all platforms.
Including Canada, not just parts of.
Without an appointment ethics minister of Canada who investigates the puppets. 🙈🙉🙊
Not sure why Steve Clark kept interrupting and answering for Doug Ford. Also, curious how much one of the affordable homes being built in the green belt going to cost?
Because Ford is clueless .
Oops look like Doug screwed up. Oh well nothing will happen about it anyways.
The evolution of The RY Drifters.
Hopefully God takes Doug Ford away soon for canadian citizens sake 🙏
Buck a beer friends.
Well all those Ford supporters may as well admit they handed over protected greenbelt lands that should have been saved for future generations. So when they see the developers driving their Rolls Royces' remember you handed it to them. Sorry friends you conservative supporters should not complain about this nor the policy of Mayors overruling their councils even though you say you believe in democracy.
who are the developers.. and who are they attached to..
You'll probably find if you do a deep dive that large developers have 'agreements' with Ford's office. Graft at it's highest level.
I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELLS YA!
count the number of times Doug pretends to “not know” about anything important…. He conveniently washes his hands off it. HE KNEW
Agree, he absolutely knew!
so let me get this straight, the housing tsar in ontario, the person responsible for a massive housing initiative worth billions is not doug ford the premier of the province, not steve clark minister of municipal affairs, no, it was some dude who worked in clark's office..is this some kind of massive joke?
Anyone wanna take a guess on how many times Donut Doug say’s ’folks’ in his press conference. It seems to go up based on how bad the transgression. I’m thinking at least 30 for this one.
Personally, I'm not "folks" nor his "friend" Ford actually talks down to people because he doesn't really care and thinks we're a bunch of rubes.
Donut Doug...perfect and thanks.
all the property in ontario and ford builds on the green belt....i smell a rat
Something rotten stinks in the city of Toronto.
They haven't had garbage removal at Queen's Park for quite awhile now.
Oh wow I’m shocked *sarcasm* too bad it won’t change anything. They are prob still gonna ahead and develop it anyway. “It was wrong” but go ahead.
LOCK HIM UP
Wow. Not a surprise, sadly.
I wish they would put this much effort into confronting Trudeau with all his corruption but with the biased media not likely
I know nothing of politics, but I figure I could run. On that basis I’m as qualified as the rest of these yahoos. My outstanding qualification? I’m incorruptible. I know the difference and understand the consequences of lying. It’s a real shame the yahoo’s don’t, and I include all parties in that last statement.
You have a moral compass, you will not be supported. It would be good if You could though✌️🧡
1.5 million homes in 10 years. Housing ministry had allocated the entire 1.5 million housing to Ontarios municipality. So the purpose of the greenbelt was..... to secure fords donors for the next election.
We are all complaining here but the turnout was 43% in the last election. So we get what we get.
I'm shocked.....LOL
Why isn't this outstanding lady our premier
Should look into simple yet decent laneway housing solutions, retrofits to prexisting buildings, building out into the lake can produce viable affordable ontario living.
Catholics, start wearing a rubber. We are running out of places for the stork to find a chimney.
Why is there such a need for housing that prime land is being destroyed. Hmmm, I wonder what it could be. Any ideas FJT.
There is a need but at the price of the green belt and not luxury urban sprawl no one can afford. Consultations are a joke.
@@Annapurna818 Why is there such a need.
This guy ford is so crooked. Show some more news coverage on this topic opposed to some of these ridiculous things that Toronto & area or even Canada cover.
LOOK AT THIS GUY LYING ..LYING SAYING HIS CHILDREN CANNOT AFFORD 1.3 MILL HOME ...THAT RIGHT THERE IS A LIE .
Oh that our federal government would take notice on how to have the integrity to take responsibility for their multiple ethics violations...and resign, for the good of the country!!
I hope the media actually follows up and shows us the affordable houses that Doug says he is building on the Greenbelt.
If we put empathy first in the development of automation, it really would be our species putting its best feet toward so we start creating a sustainability for all other species that we should be held responsible for. If we stop chasing bank notes because automation doesnt have to be programmed for a user fee like a ATM, only then can we win the human race of our lives.
This would greatly effect urban planning.
smells really really bad here...enquiry incoming just like everything else..
Ford have to go
PIERRE POILIEVRE
Where is your response.
Crickets .....
But he got a new haircut!
Can someone tell us which government in Canada was not corrupt? Take your time.
Dosnt mean they should all get away with it.
All governments everywhere are corrupt. The quality of people who go into politics makes it so. Only sycophants, scammers, and attention seekers. Democracy is broken. There should be a vetting process and professional group overseeing politician wannabes and politicians.
@@dylan15243 I agree, but can you name one that didn’t get away with it?
Whataboutism
@robertghazarian3075 all it takes is one person..
The entire party is never corrupt. Just like every job... some people are there because they care and some are there for themselves.
Better than useless ideological taxes that other parties love.
If the NDP ect want to keep. The land-in a green belt then let them buy the land
The labeling for distance between people in lines , tge contracts won't lie ,
Because this won't make the area warm up at all
Why isnt thwre a police investigation.
Heres your golden boy🤣
Wasn't his daughter getting married to a police officer. So did this happen right under the noses of several police officers? Did they ok it?
sending love and peace to everyone...
Thoughts and prayers are better.😮
@@Annapurna818 - create whatever belief serves you best...
Corruption
LOL, she just passed the buck to be someone else's problem.
She investigated and reported. She cannot go further.
@@Annapurna818 Her tenure's at an end and that her office's recommendations are toothless and useless. What she's saying is that ppl keep voting against their interest when they know that the politician that they voted for isn't going to keep their promises.
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Rope, when?
Ok this bonnie lisk needs to go
Just another gate keeper
People want more houses built, but restrict the land on which to build. The people are screwing themselves. Cities have to keep expanding to meet the housing demand.
It's hilarious they bring in 1 million in 1 year and everyone cries they have to build houses, if people want Canada to stay green stop bringing in mass immigration
More houses does not mean you will be able to buy it. The greed of developers needs to be curbed legally.
The percentage of affordable homes required by developers was lowered by fords government. So the homes will almost entirely be unaffordable to people that actually need homes whether that's by purchase or to rent.
Cities need to built more affordable housing in buildings that grow upward.
Free Northern Ontario !!!
What's new. 4 more terms for mr ford
We need more single family homes not condos.
good luck with that. you need to be an immigrant willing to live with at least 9 other people if you want access to affordable housing that isn't tofu apartments and condos
Not affordable. Planned communes with small homes are an option.
What we need is a stop to foreign investors. I work on construction sites where homes Stay vacant for years... and we need to start bringing in imagrannts who build homes not doctors and engineers that can't practice. People in the trades are retiring they are getting old.
Just don’t take us back to the criminal Wyne days
This is even worse. Millions are struggling to afford a place to live and Douggie and his buddies are lining their pockets on our backs.
You can't even spell her name. Did you sleep through Mike Harris?
Oh lawd no. My electricity bill reminds me of her and McGuinty every day.
@@Annapurna818
I take it you have never heard of the 407 or Chartwell?
@@danis11111 What real man would need to spell her man. Harris set us up for a stable future
Duh