By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer \u201cI resigned from the government in 2017 because the Ford administration was coming to power, and I knew I couldn’t work for them.\u201d Victor Doyle\u2019s worst fears have come true. Over the past twenty years since Ontario created the Greenbelt, the world\u2019s largest protected landscape of its kind, the man known as one of its central architects admits he\u2019s relieved not to be inside the province\u2019s planning offices anymore. One of Ontario\u2019s former senior planners and the co-designer of the Greenbelt legislation, recently spoke with The Pointer. His instincts were prescient. Doug Ford was working his key donors ahead of the 2018 election, when he promised to open a \u201cbig chunk\u201d of the Greenbelt to \u201csome of the country\u2019s biggest developers,\u201d… <\/p>\n
By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer \u201cI resigned from the government in 2017 because the Ford administration was coming to power, and I knew I couldn’t work for them.\u201d Victor Doyle\u2019s worst fears have come true. Over the past twenty years since Ontario created the Greenbelt, the world\u2019s largest protected landscape of its kind, the man known as one of its central architects admits he\u2019s relieved not to be inside the province\u2019s planning offices anymore. One of Ontario\u2019s former senior planners and the co-designer of the Greenbelt legislation, recently spoke with The Pointer. His instincts were prescient. Doug Ford was working his key donors ahead of the 2018 election, when he promised to open a \u201cbig chunk\u201d of the Greenbelt to \u201csome of the country\u2019s biggest developers,\u201d... <\/p>\n