Ontario will move forward with Greenbelt development amid housing crisis: minister | FULL

Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said Monday the government would move forward on its plan to open Greenbelt lands for development despite a scathing report from the auditor general because the province is facing a “housing crisis.”

He said Ontarians he speaks to are telling him to build homes and infrastructure.

Over the weekend, hundreds of people staged a protest at Bethlenfalvy's office in Pickering, Ont., frustrated with how the government has handled the process of developing the Greenbelt.

Bethlenfalvy added that the government has made it “very clear” to developers they would need to pay for the infrastructure needed to build on the lands in the Greenbelt the government has opened to development.

He said the lands would be returned to the Greenbelt if shovels are not in the ground by 2025.

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