Doug Ford is gutting Ontario conservation authorities | The Narwhal

Speaking to a lunchtime audience at the Toronto Region Board of Trade on Tuesday, Premier Doug Ford pitched a new plan he said would help tackle Ontario’s housing crisis.

“It will make it easier to build the right type of housing in the right places,” he told industry stakeholders, with a grin.

But Ford didn’t say his plan depends in part on a massive gutting of conservation authorities, which oversee and protect vital and deteriorating watersheds.

To understand the scope of the Ford government’s changes, The Narwhal sat in on a media briefing and read the proposed legislation. It also reviewed an internal government document, which was shared with some stakeholders Tuesday before being leaked to The Narwhal. Although the government did not respond to a number of questions from The Narwhal about the internal document, it released its legislation https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-2927 late on Tuesday afternoon, confirming https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6141 a number of key revelations about Ford’s actual plan.
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