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Alongside housing minister Steve Clark, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday regarding the province’s housing crisis — going on to acknowledge the controversy surrounding his government’s recent and “biased” Greenbelt land swaps and development plans.

Before admitting his team needed a “better process” and claiming his government will “implement 14” of 15 recommendations by Ontario’s auditor general regarding the Greenbelt, Ford emphasized his priority to develop not only more properties, but affordable ones for young adults and immigrants across Ontario.

Developers in Ontario, however, supposedly had direct influence over the province’s recent decision to extract lands from the Greenbelt and received “preferential treatment,” according to an explosive report from auditor general Bonnie Lysyk earlier Wednesday — a report which showed the Ford government began working to remove protected land as soon as it won re-election.

According to the auditor general, the owners of 15 parcels of land removed from the Greenbelt could see the value rise by $8.3 billion.

As a result of the Ford government's Greenbelt land swaps, opposition leaders and journalists are calling for the resignation of Ford, Clark and the minister’s chief of staff who supposedly drove the project.

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