The premier said he broke a promise when he decided to open the Greenbelt for housing development.
“It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt. It was a mistake to establish a process that moved too fast,” Ford said.
The premier said he broke a promise when he decided to open the Greenbelt for housing development.
“It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt. It was a mistake to establish a process that moved too fast,” Ford said.
NAFTA (and now USMCA) is what drove rural Ontario to vote Conservative. Same goes for the prairie provinces.
You can clearly see the shift from strong Liberal (more so in Ontario) and NDP (more so in the west) support to Conservative support exactly when NAFTA came into force. That is not a coincidence.
The enclaves these rural, predominantly agrarian, areas once enjoyed was destroyed by NAFTA, putting them head to head with American interests, which required a political shift to something American-like in order to survive.