{"id":10199,"date":"2023-09-04T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/ontarios-housing-minister-resigns-amid-greenbelt-scandal\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:21:28","slug":"ontarios-housing-minister-resigns-amid-greenbelt-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/ontarios-housing-minister-resigns-amid-greenbelt-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s housing minister resigns amid Greenbelt scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qe2zMKjcHyg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark has announced he&#8217;s resigning. <\/p>\n<p>He faced weeks of pushback from political opponents and residents following multiple investigations into his ministry&#8217;s handling of the Greenbelt land swaps.<\/p>\n<p>The province&#8217;s ethics watchdog found that Clark failed to properly oversee the process that led to protected Greenbelt lands being selected for housing development.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks earlier, the province&#8217;s auditor general found the process for choosing which parcels of land would be open for housing development was heavily influenced by a small group of well-connected developers who stand to make billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark has announced he&#8217;s resigning. He faced weeks of pushback from political opponents and residents following multiple investigations into his ministry&#8217;s handling of the Greenbelt land swaps. The province&#8217;s ethics watchdog found that Clark failed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[686,78,86,87,1444,3184,9210,1005,2914,10055,48,174,10056,75,4710,3112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}