Open Sources Guelph #448 - November 2, 2023

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we come down from the Halloween sugar high. A lot's been happening on the homefront lately so we will take a break from current affairs in the Middle East and look at Queen's Park, where the government seems buried under a mound of paper released to the press this week. Speaking of getting buried, we will look at if the federal government has buried itself by revisiting its most controversial piece of legislation. And lastly, we have another city council friend to talk with.

This Thursday, November 2, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

Out of Boundaries. Premier Doug Ford hadn't appeared in front of the media for 40 days, not since he announced that the changes to the Greenbelt would be reversed. It wasn't a great week for Ford to get back into the game because two environmental groups released 7,000 pages of documents, secured through an FOI request, that show that developers were calling the shots on policy changes beyond the Greenbelt. So how's it going for Ford now? Hint: It's not great!

Carbon Floppy. Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a carbon tax pause on households that use home heating oil, and an increase to the rural top-up rate, two moves that will benefit people in Atlantic Canada especially. If Trudeau thought that was the end of that, he was wrong, because now the premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario all want a carbon tax holiday, but the PM has said no dice. So did Trudeau just undermine his key environmental policy for cheap votes on the east coast?

Carly By Your Name. City Council took the week off due to Halloween, but it's a brief pause in the action before the debate begins about the multiyear budget next week (the documents will be released on Friday). To help tee up the discussion, we're joined this week by Ward 2 City Councillor Carly Klassen who's going to share her thoughts about the coming budget, her motion to petition for a guaranteed livable income, and her new role as the Downtown Guelph Ambassador on council.

Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.