And I suppose you think this SAME way when it comes to all the ethics violations Trudeau and his federal Liberals have been engaging in?

Yep.... start by getting into doug fords personal phone!!!!

@@landon1626 The fact that they used personal accounts/devices says it all.... denying access b/c they're personal accounts/devices perfectly covers their lies. So it's time to get police to forensically look into the devices. We do this for murderers, why not for financial crime!?

The police are politicians' dogs, the politcians are their masters and hold their leash

Ya once they investigate at the federal level

What corruption exactly?

@@No_name860 did you watch the report?

I believe that we should give Doug Ford another chance .

​@@shanewilson8728....I wonder if you would've said the same thing if that was Trudeau instead?...Please take your hypocrisy elsewhere!

@@shanewilson8728 HAHAHAHA!! That's funny!!

@damontsekos9406 This is Doug Ford first scandal in five years , Trudeau has been in far more scandals and more serious than this one.

Dougie needs to RESIGN. OR WE JUST FIRE HIM!

@@ianarchibald1423 False equivalency! DO NOT forget what the Conservatives did to Patrick Brown, who would have been our Premier, in order to get Doug Ford in.....!? We can debate how bad the Liberals are\were, but this is FAR beyond anything that the Liberals have done, and we're not even talking about the scam that Ford is pulling with our healthcare...!?

@@ianarchibald1423oh yeah totally excuse rank corruption because “DA LIBRULS” 🤡

@@ianarchibald1423 I thought Cons stood for "law & order", if it's so difficult to replace him-maybe it's a Conservative ethics problem & the "law & order" talking point is all propaganda. Cons sure love to dish the criticism, but crack when it's directed at them.

@@ianarchibald1423 The Liberal Lite Ford needs to resign and be replaced by a real Conservative Premier with integrity.

Building _upwards_ while halting expansion _outwards_ causes home prices and rents to skyrocket, shunting the lifetime earnings of residents squarely into the pockets of the chosen few. Those most affected cheer each time another tract of land is "protected" tightening the snare on their own demise. A quarter million homeless in Canada with 1000 deaths each month. A major issue in this country is the vast expanse between cities, but no land may be spared for housing. Organized protest in an effort to save a grove of trees meets each attempted use of land, yet 895,000,000 acres of forest extend all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast. This artificially created land shortage serves the purpose of financial institutions, but costs consumers from five to above twenty times the normal price of a home. For each $100,000 of market price, if land is $20,000 and the building is $80,000 lenders will not advance funds beyond the value of the indestructible portion, which is the land, itself. A deliberately restricted supply caused prices to skyrocket with the cost of the building and the cost of land exchanging places in the equation. Now, for each $100,000 spent on a home the building accounts for $20,000 of the purchase price and land makes up the remainder, which is $80,000. Banks lend an amount that matches the indestructible portion of the acquisition, which is land. In an ironical twist this arrangement enables buyers to finance their purchase by paying several times the normal cost of a home. Canada produces cereal crops and livestock that are its staples, which are grown some distance from cities. We have highways and railways to haul in these products. This country also produces some fruit and vegetables during a relatively short growing season. The reality is that 95% of the food that we consume arrives from or through the USA. Major retailers are not going to snub reliable suppliers in order to acquire local produce for a few weeks each year. That has not kept land from being declared "agricultural" in an effort to prevent its use for housing and that has inspired movements to place a halt on the use of _all_ land. In order to save land for agriculture, forest land should be made available on which to construct homes. Legislation and regulations have severely restricted the home building and home improvement industries, the two industries for which we are admirably suited with our abundance of land, lumber, stone, minerals and other material. We have skyrocketing property prices preventing people from becoming established and a growing gulf between property owners and the remainder that cannot be bridged with any amount of effort. Housing has been turned into an unregulated financial paper market, with public officials that personally benefit at the expense of citizens, setting conditions to constrain supply that results in monopoly prices, with rent at maximum levels and home ownership beyond reach. *Footnotes:* ¹ A result of this cunning _sleight of hand_ is that purchasers make a down payment of $200,000 and finance the remaining $800,000 for a home that should only cost $200,000 to begin with if it were not for a deliberately restricted supply that caused prices to escalate to absurd levels. ² Cities were built on fertile flood plains at the confluence of rivers. Halting use of land beyond these areas that were developed a century earlier does nothing to enhance agricultural production, while astronomical price levels make this land unfeasible for growing crops. ³ Average price of a home in Vancouver in 1969 was $23,939. In Winnipeg $13,588. That equals $23,939/$7284 = 3.3 years salary in Vancouver of a new degree holder or $13,588/$7284 = 1.9 years salary in Winnipeg. ¹³ Civic governments reap a bonanza from inflated property assessments.

Irrelevant! Build up not out . Land and wildlife is more important than population rise.

Not resign enough but need to be punished under criminal laws

Doug Ford belongs in prison for life!!!

There is enough land without using Greenbelt land. Stop drinking the Kool-aid.

You’re not very bright, are you?

And what about the marshes and wetlands?

Why? Bill Gates and CCP are buying up the land to make sure you can eat lab grown meat. Wake the hell up people. That’s why they’re always going after the real farmers and making things harder for them at every turn. Notice how most of our food, is not grown here? They want to buy their land up cheap. WAKE UP.

​@@ianarchibald1423....Where were you during the McGuinty/Wynne years when we still had our Healthcare, our Long Term Care, our Science Research, our Education Programs and Services, our Rent Control, and Yes!...Our Greenbelt? BTW...Speaking of McGuinty, I hope last February 19th. you enjoyed your Family Day long weekend and remembering who was the one who gave it to you!

@@damontsekos9406 EXACLTY!!! Wynne\McGuinty weren't even close to this corrupt!

@@ianarchibald1423 ....I know, it started out Federally courtesy of Stephen Harper's budget cuts to it, and in Ontario it started out courtesy of Mike Harris's budget cuts to it and when Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne tried to fix it Doug Ford came along and picked up where Mike Harris left off!...Also don't forget that Trudeau is running a Minority Government and every time he's trying to fix something, he has Poilievre and his closet Con, pseudo-Socialist, buddy Jagmeet Singh ganging up on him!

Yes, we need to know why the put greenbelts on land where people could be living instead of living in tents.

Like the Liberal 2 gas plant cancellation that cost us 1b. Or that we're on the hook to subsidize energy after Liberals sold off hydroone.

lmfao what?! You mean the decade of corruption that the Harper government blatantly was?! My man, you understand that that specific period of time for the conservative party, is taught as a period of fascist control in other countries right?!@@ianarchibald1423 Harper was a "populist" just about as much as Trump is lmfao You act as if the 2008 recession, probably one of the hardest times for Canadiens since the depression, was not a direct result of his and his parties policies and actions.

@@ianarchibald1423Harper gutted Canada and now you blame the liberals just like youve been told to.

@@dAeveFellows🤣🤣🤣 your delulu

Builders don’t need us, we need the,. People are living in tents ffs. I know your probably don’t care, I’m sure you bought when housing was affordable, but do you have children or grandchildren to care about? Or are you one of those liberal/socialists voters that doesn’t procreate?

Why would they. They have been GIVEN the evidence on the wef and nothing. Why now ? The army should be included in that to.

Rezoning is like China?

Same amount of Chinese people too.

Corruption is a major issue in many OECD countries, so your comment appears driven by personal bias vs single standard facts

Brought to you by liberals/NDP who do whatever they can to kill industry and our economy. Some people never learn.

No, he does not.

@@No_name860 yes he does.

Depends where. There is greenbelt land North of Brampton that does not, and it should be expanded so people can live in houses instead of tents. I can’t speak on the area you’re talking about, but I can tell you around where I live there are no flood planes and there’s still a green belt on it. They need to look at this zoning again and figure out what parts actually NEED to be in a greenbelt and which do not. I guarantee a lot of it does not need to be and is only creating an artificial land scarcity which pushes up the prices of housing.

It will never be okay until the conservatives are GONE

That’s not how a free and fair country is supposed to work. Do you want more government housing? Grow up.

Office towers have all services Water, plumbing, in the centre core of building. Condos don’t get built same way.

You cannot just take office space that people own to make more housing. Wth is wrong with you?

@@No_name860 I didn't say anything about taking the office buildings from the owners. I meant them voluntarily converting the, instead of letting them sit there vacant as offices. I do think gold courses should be expropriated though. Look at Toronto in Google Earth and you'll see how much land is being wasted on the stupidity of golf.

I agree 🙌🏻

What’s shameful is having people live in tents.

You can not set prices, it depends on supply and demand. Prices shot up after that greenbelt went in because it created artificial land scarcity. Please take an economics class.

You mean the farmland that will not exist because farmers cannot afford to feed themselves thanks to all the extra taxation and regulations they put on them. Most of our feed is not even from Canada. WAKE UP!

@@No_name860 agreed .

Affordable? Where do you live? Also you must know a lot about economics to make a comment like that😂

Would much rather Ford, then that creepy little alien Del Duca or ANY liberal/NDP leader. Everything they touch turns to 💩

I agree 💯 I’m old enough to know that when they put that greenbelt in years ago, home prices doubled because it created artificial land scarcity. Some people in these comments are completely clueless. That’s what happened in my area anyway North West of Brampton. I mean it made my property value sky rocket so I really shouldn’t complain, but I worry about my kids and grandkids never owning anything because of how much home prices have gone up. I guess I’m not as selfish as some of the other people in these comments.

They live on farms in the Greenbelt. Their land is valued at $4000/acre. If stays as greenbelt the land value will NOT increase. It is only the land that developers got taken out that is worth $500,000/acre. I want cheaper housing too. The way to do that is to build on land that is closer to service as the auditor's report said.

Build more towers, less suburban sprawl

@@civilengineer3349 Building _upwards_ while halting expansion _outwards_ causes home prices and rents to skyrocket, shunting the lifetime earnings of residents squarely into the pockets of the chosen few. Those most affected cheer each time another tract of land is "protected" tightening the snare on their own demise. A quarter million homeless in Canada with 1000 deaths each month. A major issue in this country is the vast expanse between cities, but no land may be spared for housing. Organized protest in an effort to save a grove of trees meets each attempted use of land, yet 895,000,000 acres of forest extend all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast. This artificially created land shortage serves the purpose of financial institutions, but costs consumers from five to above twenty times the normal price of a home. For each $100,000 of market price, if land is $20,000 and the building is $80,000 lenders will not advance funds beyond the value of the indestructible portion, which is the land, itself. A deliberately restricted supply caused prices to skyrocket with the cost of the building and the cost of land exchanging places in the equation. Now, for each $100,000 spent on a home the building accounts for $20,000 of the purchase price and land makes up the remainder, which is $80,000. Banks lend an amount that matches the indestructible portion of the acquisition, which is land. In an ironical twist this arrangement enables buyers to finance their purchase by paying several times the normal cost of a home. Canada produces cereal crops and livestock that are its staples, which are grown some distance from cities. We have highways and railways to haul in these products. This country also produces some fruit and vegetables during a relatively short growing season. The reality is that 95% of the food that we consume arrives from or through the USA. Major retailers are not going to snub reliable suppliers in order to acquire local produce for a few weeks each year. That has not kept land from being declared "agricultural" in an effort to prevent its use for housing and that has inspired movements to place a halt on the use of _all_ land. In order to save land for agriculture, forest land should be made available on which to construct homes. Legislation and regulations have severely restricted the home building and home improvement industries, the two industries for which we are admirably suited with our abundance of land, lumber, stone, minerals and other material. We have skyrocketing property prices preventing people from becoming established and a growing gulf between property owners and the remainder that cannot be bridged with any amount of effort. Housing has been turned into an unregulated financial paper market, with public officials that personally benefit at the expense of citizens, setting conditions to constrain supply that results in monopoly prices, with rent at maximum levels and home ownership beyond reach. *Footnotes:* ¹ A result of this cunning _sleight of hand_ is that purchasers make a down payment of $200,000 and finance the remaining $800,000 for a home that should only cost $200,000 to begin with if it were not for a deliberately restricted supply that caused prices to escalate to absurd levels. ² Cities were built on fertile flood plains at the confluence of rivers. Halting use of land beyond these areas that were developed a century earlier does nothing to enhance agricultural production, while astronomical price levels make this land unfeasible for growing crops. ³ Average price of a home in Vancouver in 1969 was $23,939. In Winnipeg $13,588. That equals $23,939/$7284 = 3.3 years salary in Vancouver of a new degree holder or $13,588/$7284 = 1.9 years salary in Winnipeg. ¹³ Civic governments reap a bonanza from inflated property assessments.

Land and wildlife is necessary!!!not over population.

Do you really think that the mega mansions that will be built on green belt land will do anything to decrease the housing crisis for average Canadians? Give your head a shake this is just a way to make the wealthy wealthier. We are not talkinf about forest, we are talking about prime farmland. These houses will do nothing to decrease homelessness in the province. You are a vicitm of a con job if you think otherwise. The only object of this scandal was to make Doug Ford, and his developer friends wealthier.

The AG report said that land was available to build 1.5 million homes without the Greenbelt getting touched. So I call baloney on your red herring. Build the 1.5 million homes, then if you need Greenbelt land to build more, let’s talk about that then. This has nothing to do with building homes, it’s classic corruption.

Sure we can. Charge the corrupt provincial government officials, restore all the Greenbelt land to its previous state, investigate and remove Doug Ford for graft, and go build some houses. Just because we need houses doesn’t mean the rule of law gets thrown out the window for illegal acts of greed and profit.

My thought exactly. I understand the importance of nature and farmland, but all this debate about land use affects home prices. With the prices of homes rn, I can kiss my dream of owning a home goodbye.

How about building houses people can afford. The houses being built on the green belt will not be anywhere near affordable for average Canadians. These will be million dollar homes for the wealthy. While we are at it what about building affordable housing that will help get the homeless off of our streets?

@@hippybop8451 Even IF all these homes where built there would be no positive effect on prices, since these will all be homes only the wealthy could afford.

@@debwoodhall27 I agree with you. For myself, If I were to be buying a first home, it would be something smaller and more "affordable" nothing like a Mcmansion. Id like to see more incentives for developers to make more reasonable homes almost like what we've seen being built in the 60s

He is not trying to solve the housing crisis not by any stretch of the imagination. He is only trying to make himself and his developer buddies wealthier. Everyone should be outraged by this.

Those who already live in the greenbelt and want their properties to increase even higher.

Using protected, unserviced land that is nowhere near transit, shopping, or any necessary amenities that will put billions in the pockets of a few developers is not the way to solve the problem, it’s a smokescreen. Of all the land “opened up” in the Hamilton region, only one parcel could conceivably have homes started before 2026…just because god…I mean Ford says to do something doesn’t mean it is possible. This entire scam puts the onus on everyone else and leaves the provincial government “blameless” when the reality that their promises made without consulting municipalities comes crashing down.

@@newtonbrook That does not make sense. If they wanted their property values to go up they would development in the greenbelt. Now their land is worth $4000/acre if there is development the land value increases up to around $500,000/acre.

@@debwoodhall27 Do you own a home?

Yeah exactly, you know why. This socialist crap has been in the works for years. They want to keep the middle class poorer, it makes them RICHER!

Who will you trust. Liberals, ndp or green party. Knowing Ontarions they will go back liberal to be screwed over

No one trusted Fat Doug to begin with.