How Doug Ford’s Ontario government mastered the art of the flip-flop
Posted October 26, 2023 7:14 am.
In today’s Big Story Podcast, this week, Ontario Housing Minister Paul Calandra (new to the job after his predecessor resigned amid scandal in September) announced another reversal of a key government policy. This time, it was massive changes to urban boundaries outside several Ontario cities — changes most of the cities themselves fought against.
Richard Southern is a Queen’s Park reporter for CityNews. “I think this is a government obviously hurt badly by the Greenbelt scandal, and very actively trying to prevent any future scandals, and as a result we’re seeing a lot of flip-flopping going on at Queens Park,” said Southern.
Coming a week after the government introduced legislation to officially reverse its actions on Ontario’s Greenbelt, and on the heels of reversals of everything from pandemic policy to licence plates, is it a positive thing that this government can admit when it’s wrong and change? Or a worrisome sign that so many of its major initiatives need fixing?
Today, a trip inside Queen’s Park, where nothing is ever certain … or dull.
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