It’s been a rough couple weeks for Premier Doug Ford’s government.
Two independent, legislative watchdogs — in successive reports released just weeks apart from each other — found major flaws with the province’s decision to remove land from the Greenbelt last December to build housing.
On Wednesday, Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake found that Housing Minister Steve Clark chose to “stick his head in the sand” rather than oversee the process of selecting which sites would be removed from the Greenbelt — a vast 810,000-hectare area of protected farmland, forest and wetland stretching from Niagara Falls to Peterborough meant to be permanently off-limits to
