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City councillors in Stratford, Ont., should not have voted behind closed doors to seek a controversial land zoning order from the province, an independent investigator found. The order fast-tracked a since-cancelled proposal for a controversial glass factory.
The new chair of the Ford government’s Greenbelt Council was Ontario’s environment minister leading up to the Walkerton tragedy, an E. coli outbreak that killed seven people two decades ago.
Norm Sterling who oversaw cuts to the environment ministry’s budget that were later found to have contributed to what happened in Walkerton was a Progressive Conservative environment minister under the Mike Harris government. As an MPP in 2005, he voted against the creation of the Greenbelt.
Sterling replaces former chair David Crombie, who resigned along with six others late last year in protest of the Ford government’s move to limit the powers of conservation authorities.
iPolitics AM: House set for after hours session to fast track bill to order striking Montreal dockworkers back to work ipolitics.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ipolitics.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
iPolitics AM: Efforts to fast-track bill to end strike at Port of Montreal By Kady O Malley. Published on Apr 28, 2021 6:01am The House of Commons pictured in June, 2020. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
With the procedural paperwork now in place for the government to force an end to the three-day-old strike at the Port of Montreal, the stage is set for a lightning-round after-hours review of a bill that would order hundreds of dock workers back on the job, pending binding arbitration to resolve the long-running contract dispute.
Before that can get underway, however, the House has to sign off on a government-initiated motion that would allow the legislation to clear the Commons in a single sitting day.