<html><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div class="ApplePlainTextBody"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Merriweather Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="tsArticleContainer metroland" data-lpos="asset|body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="articleMainArt" data-lpos="asset|main-multimedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: min(960px, 100%); max-width: none; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="asset-photo card" data-lpos="asset|main-multimedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 960px; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"><figure class="photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-blur" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; cursor: pointer; position: relative;"><div class="image" data-toggle="modal" data-target=".modal-b5bf8420-5f0b-5b13-a5cd-2a0f160e220f" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); z-index: 9; position: relative;"><div class="tnt-blurred-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 960px; position: absolute; left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; z-index: 0; height: 907.109375px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;"></div></div><figcaption class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: initial; padding: 10px 30px 0px;"><span class="caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Doug Ford has close ties in law enforcement as he does in the development community. Can we expect a fair and competent investigation into the Greenbelt scandal even if police get involved? Margaret Shkimba is skeptical.</div></span><span class="credit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moudakis, Theo</span><span class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div id="tncms-region-article_top_content" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div id="asset-content" data-asset-uuid="56169b44-48ee-5b81-b6a7-08a378d02657" class="tsArticle hasSidebar clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; padding: 0px !important;"><div class="asset-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: min(690px, 100% - 60px); max-width: none; margin: 0px auto; float: left; position: relative !important;"><div id="share-left-affix" class="share-container content-left affix hidden-xs" data-subscription-required-remove="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 50px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 50px; float: left; font-size: 26px; top: 100px; position: sticky !important; margin-left: -130px !important; left: 0px !important;"><ul class="social-share-links hidden-print list-unstyled stacked none" data-lpos="asset|share-toolbar" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">What we long suspected in the Greenbelt debacle turns out to be true. Corruption within the Ford government resulted in a golden sweetheart deal for developers despite efforts to gaslight us into believing differently.</p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Some might try to pass this off as “ooopps, we didn’t know” but the mere suggestion beggars belief. Ford’s assertion that developers aren’t friends flies in the face of their attendance at Ford family events. We have been played, people. Shuffled, cut and dealt a deal from the bottom of the deck by a card shark with aces up his sleeve, queens in his pocket and kings in his hat. Loaded to win.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 128px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">I watched the news conference with Ford and housing minister Steven Clark. I had to turn it off and take a mini mental health break just to process the manipulation and deceitful tactics used by Ford to justify the corruption unfolding under his watch. But, but, housing, housing, housing. No excuse.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 72px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">The people who look saw behind the lies from day one. What’s that saying? If it quacks like a duck …</p></div><div id="fsk_splitbox_2886_onscreen" class="fsk_splitbox_2886_onscreen" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div id="fsk_splitbox_2886" class="fsk_splitbox_2886" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 603px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; height: 0px; text-align: center;"><iframe name="fsk_frame_splitbox" id="fsk_frame_splitbox" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: medium; border-style: none; width: 603px; height: 0px; margin: 0px;"></iframe></div><div id="fsk_splitbox_2886_passback" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; height: 250px;"><iframe src="about:blank" id="fsk_splitbox_2886_passback_iframe" scrolling="no" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: none; transform-origin: 0px 0px; margin: auto; display: block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"></iframe></div></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 212px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">What can we expect from the police? Ford has close connections in the law enforcement sector. Remember the Taverner scandal where family friend Ron had to withdraw from consideration for the top OPP seat because of public outcry and what appeared to be job-jigging? Both developers and police were in attendance at the infamous “stag and dough.” Can we expect an unbiased investigation as though they were dealing with any one of us for a white collar crime?</p><div id="magniteoutstream" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0px;"></div></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 72px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">In case anyone wonders what happens when people lose interest in politics and drop out of voting, this is it.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 128px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Only 18 per cent of eligible voters voted for this Conservative government. You know what that tells the government? No one is watching, no one cares, no one has time. The government can do whatever it wants and no one will even notice, never mind bat an eye. Accountability takes a vacation.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 462px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: var(--font-daily-text); overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Ford government has been expert as sowing so many (so many!) plots of discord: youth with special needs (always top of the list), people living in poverty, health care, education, housing, every file has been tainted with, if not corruption born from a misguided political ideology, then unbelievable, mind-blowing incompetence at the highest level of the province.</p><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print tsArticleRegion" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 20px; right: 30px; width: min(775px, 100% + 60px); position: relative;"><div id="tncms-block-2818989" class="tncms-block tnt-has-block-bg" data-lpos="you-might-be-interested-in" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 2px 8px 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 2px 8px 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><section id="block-2818989" class="block emphasis-h3 tnt-no-margin-bottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 40px;"><div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="block-title title-2818989" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 5px;"><div class="block-title-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; width: 716px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; font-size: 1rem;">You might be interested in</h3></div></div></div><div class="custom-card-liftigniter card-grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div data-filled="true" class="storyPack pack23 card-img-md region-bg" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><article id="card-summary-b61bc0cf-157c-52f6-a83e-512ff12ed8ad" class="packStory1 letterbox-style-blur tnt-asset-type-article tnt-section-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-start: span 12; grid-column-end: auto; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="card-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; grid-template-columns: auto 90px; column-gap: 15px;"><div class="card-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-radius: 5px;"><div class="media-preview media-preview-b61bc0cf-157c-52f6-a83e-512ff12ed8ad undefined-asset" data-aspect="1:1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="photo letterbox-style-blur" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div class="image" data-toggle="modal" data-target=".modal-{{uuid}}" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: 9; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/flashbacks-hamilton/george-hamilton-day-slipped-by-with-little-fanfare/article_b61bc0cf-157c-52f6-a83e-512ff12ed8ad.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=ymbii_top" class="tnt-asset-link" aria-label="George Hamilton Day slipped by with little fanfare" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--link-color); text-decoration: none;"></a></div></figure></div></div></div></article></div></div></section></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>