Quote of note: An environmental lawyer on the case against Doug Ford’s government

In November 2021, following a public survey and popular campaign against urban sprawl, Hamilton’s city council voted down a plan to expand the city’s urban boundary and instead decided to accommodate population growth within its existing borders. A year later, the Ontario government ordered Hamilton to expand its urban boundary by 2,200 hectares anyway. Now, on behalf of the advocacy organization Environmental Defence, environmental-law charity Ecojustice is challenging the province’s move.