Brownfield can be a good option, but there may be (a) other manufacturing / industrial facilities still in the area, which create disruption (like th people who buy alongside a runway and complain about the aircraft noise) and (b) significant remediation needed due to past practices (dumping chemicals, residues etc).
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Took him long enough; should have resigned as soon as the AG report came out.Man overboard ....
Premier reshuffles cabinet after beleaguered housing minister resigns
Paul Calandra has been handed the troubled Municipal Affairs and Housing Ministry file after Premier Doug Ford reshuffled his cabinet.Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark resigns from cabinet position
MPP Steve Clark has resigned from his position as Ontario’s Housing Minister.Right thing on principle (even if he didn't pick his own Chief of Staff), but will it be enough? We'll see ...Steve Clark resigns as Ontario housing minister
MPP Steve Clark has resigned from his position as Ontario’s Housing Minister.toronto.ctvnews.ca
Yes, obviously photos mean little in and of themselves. What will be significant is if contacts more intimate than big public events with grip-and-grins are identified, patterns of donation, etc.Every politician poses for thousands of photos with people they don't know. This is exploited by some who leverage those images to say "Look at who I know and therefore what influence I must hold!"
Of course, it's the ones who stay hidden in shadows who ultimately hold more influence than the showboats posing with their cigar still wrapped in cellophane.
I think we already know that too. What we dont have is an email from TACC to Doug Ford saying if we get this acreage we'll build your daughter a $5M house for a $1M. Does that exist? Doubtful even if there was a quid pro quo. Why was the OPP uninterested? Why did they say there was nothing there? Why were they unable to uncover what has been uncovered so far? I guess we know why they passed it on to the RCMP
I'm with you on this, especially since his team picks the Chiefs of Staff.
I always stand to be corrected, but I missed those bits in the media - you have any sourcing for the OPP saying "there was nothing there"? Also, how much have you seen re: everything the OPP had uncovered up to when the RCMP was asked to step in?
and the Mandate letters
Yup!
That'd be cool, thanks - and if it was out there, I'm surprised it wasn't higher profile than it was. Last I saw in detail showed no details, and reminded folks OPP probed Team Red Chiefs of Staff ....
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The potential for perception of the bit in yellow is part of what Team OPP said led to a referral to Team Mounties.
Yeah the horses have left the barn by that time IMO, not that they were politically compromised but that the appearance is bad, part of which is constrained by law enforcement communications but if that was the issue they coulda shoulda woulda kicked it up in January.Yup!
That'd be cool, thanks - and if it was out there, I'm surprised it wasn't higher profile than it was. Last I saw in detail showed no details, and reminded folks OPP probed Team Red Chiefs of Staff ....
RCMP reviewing potential ‘irregularities’ in Ontario Greenbelt development after referral from OPP
The announcement comes a day after the chief of staff to Ontario’s Housing Minister resigned, saying his actions had been ‘unfairly depicted’OPP’s ‘conflict of interest’ on Greenbelt probe puzzles police watchers
Handoff to RCMP after months of brewing controversy may speak to need for standalone squads that probe political matters
The potential for perception of the bit in yellow is part of what Team OPP said led to a referral to Team Mounties.
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Thx for this - I remember “we’re still looking” before the hand off but didn’t remember any official “nothing to see here.”Yeah the horses have left the barn by that time IMO, not that they were politically compromised but that the appearance is bad, part of which is constrained by law enforcement communications but if that was the issue they coulda shoulda woulda kicked it up in January.
Pretty sure I linked to the original article here but cant find it but heres some I did just now, they dont go as far as I remember though
OPP deciding whether to investigate Ontario government's Greenbelt development plan
The force's Anti Rackets Branch is looking for any evidence to support claims the government may have tipped off developers ahead of announcing the plan
OPP anti-rackets branch reviewing requests to investigate Ford government’s plan to develop Greenbelt
Premier Doug Ford and Housing Minister Steve Clark have denied accusations that the government tipped off developers in advance of a plan to open up protected land for building.
'No one has come forward with proof' against Ford government in Greenbelt probe: detective's email
'We need someone to say that they have information a Government official tipped off the developers,' wrote an OPP detective in an email obtained by The Trillium
Opposition leaders encourage OPP to keep up Greenbelt probe
An OPP detective wrote in an email obtained by The Trillium that 'no one has come forward with proof' worthy of investigating the Ford government's Greenbelt land swap
Ford’s mother probably got paid by green belt lobbyists. Heck, if Rob Ford was still alive, I bet Doug would have got his brother some backsheesh as well….
its hard not to be numb, consider the shock of a minister resigning for anything at all something that in the past was overdone but now is a rarity especially at the federal levelYou mean those of the middle class who actually have spare time and funding to worry about this, vs living? If they spin too hard, maybe Ford will reneg on his support to Trudeau’s Emergency Act maskirovka?
Ford’s mother probably got paid by green belt lobbyists. Heck, if Rob Ford was still alive, I bet Doug would have got his brother some backsheesh as well….
#toonumbtothisstufftogetoverlyoutraged
Well, in fairness to Team Fed Red, isn’t there a Canadian Don’t Resign Act?
That would be a stretch even if I said it.
