Craig Needles Podcast Episode 199: As the Greenbelt scandal turns

By Craig Needles

August 29, 2023 - 7:19pm

As the Ford government says they're considering removing development permissions from some of the land in the greenbelt they had already authorized - because the land owner tried to sell it. Is there any reason to push forward with any of the greenbelt development?

Diane-Laure Arjaliès, an associate professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western joins Craig to share her thoughts on why the greenbelt development needs to be stopped. Then Craig analyzes what the political fall out of the latest happenings might be.

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