A mandatory review of the Greenbelt that was to have started earlier this year has yet to begin, and critics are demanding “substantive guardrails” around the Ford government’s assessment of the protected lands.

The two-million acre, ecologically sensitive zone around the Greater Golden Horseshoe area was to have undergone a mandatory review starting in February.

But thus far, the Ford government has not launched the wide-ranging consultation or appointed members of a key advisory group which is crucial to delivering the review. The original legislation that created the Greenbelt has a clause requiring a government review once every decade.

Environmentalists and opposition critics are calling on the government to break its months-long silence on its plans for the review and to definitiv

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