CUPE vs. Ford & The Ontario Greenbelt
Jane Brown is joined by Peter Muggeridge, Senior Editor of Zoomer Magazine, David Cravit, Chief Membership Officer of CARP and Bill VanGorder, Chief Operating and Chief Policy Officer of CARP.\n\nIn the latest pertaining to CUPE vs the province, Premier Doug Ford announced that his government would be willing to drop the strike legislation and go back to the bargaining table if the union decides to stop striking. CUPE has agreed to this. But what comes next?\n----\nFORD GOVERNMENT'S PLAN TO BUILD HOMES ON GREENBELT\n\nJane Brown is now joined by Mike Schreiner, leader of the Green Party of Ontario, Gideon Forman, climate change and transportation policy analyst at the David Suzuki Foundation and Tim Gray, Executive Director of Environmental Defence.\n\nThe Ford government has an ambitious plan to build 50,000 new homes on the Greenbelt. According to Housing Minister Steve Clark, the province wants to open up roughly 7,400 acres of the protected land to do this. Premier Doug Ford said that we have a housing crisis to deal with due to a growing immigrant population. Our panel weighs in on the latest and on whether Ford broke his promise about protecting the Greenbelt.\n\nListen live, weekdays from noon to 1, on Zoomer Radio!