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

Each Sunday morning, considered one of our legislative reporters from The Trillium offers 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 crew of journalists on the Ontario Legislature. 

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

On the present immediately 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. 

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

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

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