Just weeks after revelations of impropriety forced the Ontario government to reverse its imposition of corrupt settlement boundary expansions on unwilling City and Regional governments, a leaked letter from Municipal Affairs Minister Paul Calandra, dated November 2, 2023, suggests that the Premier and Cabinet ministers are doubling down and trying to make the mayors of lower-tier municipalities accomplices to the scandal by having them rubber-stamp the government’s forced farm, forest and wetland eating boundary expansions.
Leaked Letter Reveals Ontario Government Scheme to Recruit Small Town Mayors as Lackeys for Forced Sprawl – Environmental Defence, November 3, 2023
Ontario’s new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Paul Calandra, has repeatedly promised to move the ministry in another direction. Many staff and elected officials at the heart of the Greenbelt scandal, questionable urban boundary expansions and the alarming use of Minister’s Zoning Orders are under the microscope of an RCMP investigation or intense public scrutiny.
Leaked letter to mayors suggests PCs learned little from Greenbelt and boundary expansion scandals – thePointer.com, November 6, 2023