‘It was a mistake,’ says Doug Ford to allow development in protected areas of Greenbelt amid scandal that cost him ministers
Ontario’s premier has reversed course on a controversial multi-billion dollar land swap deal, saying it was a “mistake” to allow development in protected areas of the green belt around Toronto. The abrupt reversal comes after the scandal has cost him a pair of cabinet ministers, two damning reports from government watchdogs and mounting public outrage.
“I made a promise to you that I wouldn’t touch the greenbelt. I broke that promise. And for that, I am very, very sorry,” Doug Ford told reporters Thursday afternoon. “It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt … I’m not perfect. No government is perfect.”
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