Speaker, through you to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing: Early last year, the government’s Housing Affordability Task Force made 55 recommendations to speed up housing. The government ignored the vast majority of those and wasted a year enriching greenbelt speculators, who made $8.3 billion in profit without building a single home.

Now the minister has sent a threatening letter to mayors across Ontario demanding their feedback on each of the task force recommendations. The minister said they will lose funding if the mayors don’t respond within one month.

Why is the minister threatening municipalities when it was his government’s choice to ignore its own task force recommendations?