Over the last ten or so years I think there are very few amateur political commentators who can claim to have been so consistently wrong in their predictions, about pretty much everything, as I’ve been. That said, it seems as though one of my hot takes has blown up in record time with the recent announcement from Premier Doug Ford’s Ontario government that they are reversing the controversial Greenbelt land swap. In an earlier post I concluded that the land was never going back into the Greenbelt, but now it look as though it might.
At least for a while. I still think it’s likely to end up being rezoned after the next official Greenbelt review, but for now Ford seems to have made a political calculation to sacrifice the interests of the developers to shore up some of the political damage he’s been taking. But given the amount of money at stake I think this is a story we’ve yet to hear the last of.
Alex Good 
Do you get some sort of award for being so bad at political commentary?
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I should. People could make money out of just banking on the opposite happening of whatever I say is going to happen.
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Well, I plan on collecting a cool 8billion, just so you know…
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Just make sure I get a cut. Not asking for much. Just a billion.
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Phhhtt, what did you ever do for me? If I remember correctly, you cut me out of that maple syrup pipeline project completely.
I’ll give you a buck. Then you can have venison 😀
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You’re getting all this counterintel. And you were out picketing against the pipeline so you don’t get any syrup. Or gravy.
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I was not! I’m all for pipelines. Maple syrup, oil, natural gas, drugs, waffles. If you can pipeline it, I’m for it!
And what kind of gravy was it? Brown or white?
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A deep brown, with mushrooms. We’ve been refining lots of it in preparation for Real Thanksgiving. Only a couple of weeks away!
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Uh oh, are we going to have the Fakesgiving War of 2022 all over again?
I thought we kicked your butt on that issue last year. But to be honest, I’d probably care more if the US actually celebrated Thanksgiving instead of Consumeasmuchofeverythingasyoucan Day 😦
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Our larders are overflowing with foodstuffs, so there will be plenty to feed our American cousins on Leftovers Day. We may even throw in some old candy corn and chicken bones from Halloween. You can’t call us bad neighbours!
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Oh man, don’t get me started on halloween. Peoples’ lawns are fully decorated and it’s not even October yet.
What I’d like to do is pipe all those kind of people up to your neck of the woods. Got any herds of hungry grizzly bears we could feed?
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I think the polar bears are maybe hungrier. Just have to truck them a little further north.
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Pipelines don’t care!
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I saw Margaret Atwood was throwing her weight into the Greenbelt thing. She’s got a similarly substantial weighting to you yourself in terms of political clout, right?
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Can’t say I was aware of her position.
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Spoken like Roger Moore in Moonraker.
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