Greenbelt fiasco makes a mess of development order
Critics of Ontario’s changes to its Greenbelt are warning that the government’s favourable treatment of a select few developers undermines not just those environmentally sensitive lands, but the province’s entire rules-based system of land development.
The report released last week by Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake into now-former municipal affairs and housing minister Steve Clark – who resigned over the long weekend – did much more than explain how Mr. Clark and his staff erred and violated the Members’ Integrity Act, 1994.
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