Messy messaging, mad MPs

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CROMBIE’S CARBON-TAX CONUNDRUM — BONNIE CROMBIE was front and centre at Queen’s Park to pitch bold housing solutions — but she wound up getting into the weeds of the anti-carbon-tax crusade, again.

What Crombie wanted to talk about: The Liberals are hopping on the fourplex bandwagon with a new private member’s bill that would amend official plans and zoning bylaws to allow buildings with up to four residential units, and up to four storeys, as of right on residential plots. That a recommendation plucked right from the Ford government’s own Housing Affordability Task Force.

“This will result in more spacious, gentle-density dwellings being built across Ontario,” the party said. Added Crombie: “Our agenda is ambitious and based on a simple yet bold concept of abundance. Ontario’s Liberals are ready to be builders again.”

Green with envy: Provincewide fourplexes — something municipalities have been greenlighting (or not) piecemeal — was already pitched in a private member’s…