Ontario launched audits to find ‘waste’ at city hall. No one knows what they say
After backlash over changes to the fees developers pay municipalities at the end of 2022, the province launched audits of local finances. A year later, they were cancelled.
#globalnews #Canada #Politics #Bill23 #Ontariohousing
https://globalnews.ca/news/10483920/ontario-bill-23-made-whole-audits/
Ontario launched audits to find ‘waste’ at city hall. No one knows what they say
After backlash over changes to the fees developers pay municipalities at the end of 2022, the province launched audits of local finances. A year later, they were cancelled.
#globalnews #Canada #Politics #Bill23 #Ontariohousing
https://globalnews.ca/news/10483920/ontario-bill-23-made-whole-audits/
Chrystia Freeland is stealing Ontario PC government slogans: https://youtu.be/ZCaSmpWnOTE?t=27 https://www.ontario.ca/page/more-homes-built-faster
This is from Whitby, ON, but apply it to the Ontario municipality of your choice: https://youtube.com/watch?v=troEeWrqO64
Ontario cancels municipal audits launched to understand impacts of its housing laws
The announcement came alongside confirmation the Ford government would reverse its decision to dissolve the Region of Peel and would revoke some minister’s zoning orders.
#globalnews #Politics #Bill23 #DevelopmentCharges #Fordgovernment
https://globalnews.ca/news/10167361/ford-government-city-finance-audits/
The owner of one of the 15 properties involved in the #Greenbeltscandal is asking the #DougFord government to exclude their plot from the provincial bill to return all that land to the protected area. Now lawyers are raising the prospect of a constitutional challenge if the legislation passes as is.
#GonnaBeExpensive #TaxpayersWillPay #onpoli #ontario #bill23
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/developer-asks-for-greenbelt-bill-amendment-lawyers-raise-spectre-of-courts/article_34e38740-d99f-55ba-808b-bc78a48e73d9.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
As the RCMP investigates their $8.28-billion #Greenbeltscandal, Premier Ford’s Conservative govt has tabled a law cancelling their controversial municipal boundary changes.
"another example of the Ford government pretending to do something by tabling a law to stop themselves from doing the thing that they already did and got caught for. Not real leadership or accountability and Ontario deserves better. - Nate Erskine-Smith
@CanadianCrone.
The recently appointed chair to the #Ontario Land Tribunal is Michael Kraljevic.
He & Premier Ford are long-time buddies & even played on the same Etobicoke high school football team together.
Kraljevic is now set to earn a cool taxpayer funded $1,019,875 as chair of the Ontario Land Tribunal.
Previously, Kraljevic was CEO of Toronto Port Lands Company, which owns & manages more than 400 acres of #Toronto waterfront land.
Will the selling price of new-builds be lower now that developers pay nothing for infrastructure? 
Yes, precisely. #Bill23 banned municipalities from charging developers for infrastructure costs. As a result every Ontario municipality will have massive budget shortfalls.
"Premier Ford chose to further enrich wealthy developers on the backs of every single homeowner in #Ontario"
Premier Ford may look contrite & promise he's reversing the #Greenbeltscandal lands, but note he's not reversing his biggest gift to developers - #Bill23 - which offloads infrastructure costs onto municipalities.
For example, #Guelph is projecting a loss of $227 million in development charges as a result of the #DougFord govt's #Bill23 legislation passed last year.
Guelph taxpayers now have pay 35% more in property tax between now and 2027.
a leaked letter from MPP Paul Calandra suggests that Premier #DougFord and various Cabinet ministers have doubled down to make the mayors of "lower-tier municipalities" accomplices to the #Greenbeltscandal by having them rubber-stamp the Conservative government’s forced farm, forest and wetland eating boundary expansions.
“There is simply no non-corrupt way to justify further extension of settlement boundaries"
In the midst of the #GreenbeltScandal, a reminder that #Ontario taxpayers will now pay for roads, community centres, transit, sewers etc. because of Premier Ford's Bill 23.
i.e. The Ford govt legislation will cost Hamiltonian's $14 to $25 million a year & York Region tax payers upwards of $34.9 million a year, costs that were previously carried by the developers.
Not only did #DougFord's developer buddies snag land at a profit, his #Bill23 eliminates infrastructure costs = even higher profits.
@Kristynwongtam: So many of my constituents face demoviction made worse by #Bill23 — we made Ford and his Ministers look at the tenants and families he is hurting this week. And we will keep fighting to keep them housed. Listen to THEIR stories and foll… https://twitter.com/nodemovictions/status/1717338232369619434
Bill 23, Premier Ford's controversial housing legislation, opened the door for the #GreenbeltScandal by weakening conservation authorities, removing environmental protection, weakening the OMB, adding “strong mayor” legislation & increasing the financial burden on taxpayers for local infrastructure.
#Bill23 is a beast. It's complex, powerful legislation that will change #Ontario even if the premier "returns" the Greenbelt lands.
@JILLSLASTWORD: The rot starts at the top, but the PC Party voted as a block on #Bill23. They worked together to keep secrets, push developer interests ahead of Ontarians, who needed REAL leadership in this affordability crisis.
Judge @fordnation. But j… https://twitter.com/colindmello/status/1704941345222103285
Keep pushing 'till he's down (and then start kicking)!
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-greenbelt-report-reaction/
@thenarwhal #CanPoli #ONPoli #GreenBelt #Niagara #Hwy413 #Bill23 #Fascism
