<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><div><div class="container position-relative" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 960px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; max-width: 960px; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: museo-sans, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative !important;"><div class="row justify-content-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px; justify-content: center !important;"><div class="col-md-10 col-lg-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 639.984375px; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; flex: 0 0 66.666664%; max-width: 66.666664%;"><div class="single__body" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped is-style-image-fullscreen wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 60px calc(-33.333333% - 5px) 20px; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: normal; --wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); width: auto; position: relative; left: unset; right: unset;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-style-default" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 82px; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(50% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.5); align-self: inherit;"><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); width: 458.390625px; max-width: 500px; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; background-image: none; background-position: 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; max-height: 60%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 8px 8px; position: relative;">Paul Calandra became the new minister of municipal affairs and housing after Clark resigned amid the Greenbelt scandal. Photo: Alicia Wynter / The Narwhal</figcaption></figure></figure><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">The Ford government has used these orders more than any past Ontario government and faced criticism for using them to override environmental concerns, and for giving them to developers who have sought to <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/mr-x-and-his-mzos-the-greenbelt-consultant-has-claimed-credit-for-getting-special-zoning/article_98189833-b37e-5e12-ada1-cb717db59314.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(255, 68, 56); text-decoration: none;">sell their rezoned land</a> instead of building on it. </p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">“The vast majority of them, frankly, I’m not concerned with,” Calandra said, referring to the over 100 minister’s zoning orders issued by the province since 2018.</p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">“Where I want to look at, full disclosure, is those that have been given [a minister’s zoning order] but work has not started in any way.”</p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said the Ford government’s flip-flop is yet another admission that their approach to housing policy has failed.</p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">“For two years, this government has poured their time, money and energy into helping well-connected insiders cash in on sprawl,” Schreiner said in a statement.</p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">“This government is spiralling out of control.”</p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">–With files from Fatima Syed</em></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated Oct. 23, 2023, at 3:00 p.m.</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">ET: This story was updated to include comment from Stop Sprawl Hamilton. </em></p><div class="article_widget_end" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen31082250_50="261693" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen31082250_50="261693" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time31082250_50="100" data-gtm-vis-has-fired31082250_50="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 50px;"><p class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: cordale, Georgia, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(62, 60, 57); line-height: 27px; clear: both;">[bravepop id="49320" align="center"]</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="divider" style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 1024px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(220, 219, 218); caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); 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