Public complaints to the OPP have now been sent to the RCMP to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.
To the hyper partisans on either side, this is a distinction without a difference. Ford’s supporters will keep backing him, his opponents will continue to call for him to be locked up on dreamt-up charges of corruption.
In the SNC Lavalin case, it took four years for the Mounties to say “the RCMP determined that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate a criminal offence and the file was concluded.” In that case there were emails, text messages, public testimony and a cabinet resignation over the PM pressuring the country’s top lawyer to cut a deal in a bribery and corruption case.Article content
What continues to drive a lot of anger and criticism of Ford’s Greenbelt decision is the idea that this was public land that he gave away to friends or sold off cheap to developer buddies. When the federal government established the Greenbelt in Ottawa in the 1950s, they expropriated the land and paid for it, making it public land.
The land Ford took out of the Greenbelt was privately owned land that, in most cases, both the developers and the local municipal government had spent decades lobbying the province to allow development to occur on. There was no giveaway, no sell-off of public assets as opposition parties and some media continue to refer to it as.
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