VIDEO: Doug Ford falling manner behind on promise to construct 1.5 million properties

Each Sunday morning, one in every of our legislative reporters from The Trillium supplies an inside take a look at the week that was in Ontario politics — and the week forward

Welcome again to Trillium Discuss, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s workforce of journalists on the Ontario Legislature. 

Each Sunday, Scott Sexsmith sits down with one in every of our staffers at The Trillium to speak in regards to the week that was at Queen’s Park — and the week forward.

On the present as we speak is Editor-in-Chief Jessica Smith Cross, who breaks down the newest on the Ford authorities’s signature promise to construct 1.5 million new properties by 2031. 

Contemporary off a disastrous housing projection in its newest fiscal assertion, the province obtained extra dangerous information this week from the Monetary Accountability Workplace: relating to indifferent properties, Ontario “is on observe for the bottom degree of annual begins on file again to 1955.”

On this episode, we additionally discuss bike lanes — extra particularly, who needs them ripped out and the way a lot it is going to price taxpayers to do this. Spoiler alert: the value tag is fairly steep.

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