How Ford is angling to pull through the FOI dump

And must-read Movers and Shakers

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FORD SPEAKS (SORT OF) — What should have been a good-news announcement — a mini-budget teaser extending the gas tax cut — was clouded by the latest revelations on the Ford government’s heavy-handed involvement in now-reversed municipal urban boundary changes.

It’s not surprising, given reporters haven’t had a chance to question Premier DOUG FORD in roughly six weeks — and a lot has happened since we last heard from him, including an RCMP investigation into the Greenbelt land swap and a 7,000-page document dump suggesting his office and political staff were directly involved in controversial changes to local Official Plans.

Ford, however, said he had nothing to do with the policy changes and deflected at pretty much every turn. Here’s what he said (or not):

On the PCs making it rain MZOs for developers who were at Ford’s daughter’s wedding: “It’s a tool that the province been using for decades, and it’s a great tool,” he said, before spouting off on a tangent about the Ba…