This week! Kingston tomorrow, Thornhill on Wednesday, and celebrating all the new board members of the Spadina Fort York PLA on Sunday.
Would love to see you. All RSVP links here: luma.com/ericforolp
It was great to catch up with so many folks at #LIB2026 and to see the enthusiasm toward building our economy, infrastructure, and sovereignty.
@mark-carney.bsky.social is orienting Canada to take more risks, dream bigger, and work faster. Let’s dare Ontario to lead it, and own the future!
We had a packed house for our Toronto Housing & LVT meetup with @ericlombardi.ca @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social
Eric is someone to be paying attention to, for the sake of Canada's future generations. Read more
It was a great opportunity to discuss an important reality in Ontario.
The rise of excessive complexity in our land use systems has undermined the ability of the public AND private sectors to deliver competition, progress, and development in Ontario.
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to talk about how land use shapes Ontario’s economy.
Hopefully the first in an “Ontario Can Still Win” series!
Special shout out to @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social, @kenjaminyang.bsky.social and the Henry George Foundation for hosting.
Picture of a crowd in front of a slide that says common wealth Canada. Eric Lombardi is on the left and Ken Yang is on the right.
LVT x @ericlombardi.ca. Name a better duo.
Municipal governance in Ontario has become increasingly dysfunctional. It’s all to easy to lay blame on local councils.
In The Bridge, I argue that Ontario bears responsibility, and needs a new deal with municipalities.
Link below:
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Hope to see you at an event this week, including a talk on how we can make better use of our land
RSVP at lu.ma/ericforolp
Thanks to @waterlooolp.bsky.social, Laurier and UW Young Liberals Clubs for organizing a great event with @thefrankdomenic to talk about how we can build a better future. Big wave of nostalgia for me as I got to visit my alma mater, including old classrooms at QNC and the solar car I worked on!
I had a great time meeting the Huron-Bruce and Woodstock PLA this past week. Always a pleasure meeting people, hearing about rural issues, and visiting their wonderful communities.
I'll be all around the province this week. Come out, bring a friend, and let's talk about how we can grow Ontario.
RSVP at lu.ma/ericforolp
“This is the real story of this budget. Ford’s eighth, and it barely confronts any of Ontario’s real problems. Just another bill for taxpayers in a province that refuses to face its own decline.”
Check out my latest in the Toronto Sun: torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
Textbook visualization of a supply constraint.
Attending the Chase Cornerstone Housing conference in Hamilton today.
The median condo in Toronto today is half the size it was a generation ago.
The great shrinking of living space has had enormous effects on prosperity in Ontario.
It’s time to give people more.
HOW ONTARIO CAN WIN THE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY
What are the real challenges, where are the opportunities, and what will it take to build a more prosperous province?
Come chat about how Ontario can compete and win the future.
luma.com/lou1hiss
HOUSING & LAND VALUE TAX MEETUP
In Canada, earned income is taxed quickly and heavily, while land—one of the largest and least productive sources of wealth—is barely touched. That isn’t just inefficient. It’s unjust.
Come chat about how we can put our biggest asset to work
commonwealth.ca/toronto
Excited to announce upcoming events in Toronto:
Looking forward to hosting this meetup with @ericlombardi.ca @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social
If you're in the GTA and care about housing, intergenerational fairness, and fixing a system that's holding back builders and workers, come join us. RSVP below.
As a young person in Ontario, it feels like I’m yelling into the void.
It feels lonely and like our government doesn’t care about us. I mean, they’re busy with HOV lanes + booze (which we can’t afford), all the while cutting OSAP and pulling a no-show on congestion, housing, healthcare, etc.
It’s time to correct housing, fix our institutions, repair our public services, and make upward mobility a reality again after decades of decline.
“For a solution, the data suggest, look to Quebec, for many years now the happiest province in the country. If Quebec was a country, it would place 5th in the 2026 happiness ranking, tied with Sweden. (Canada without Quebec falls down to 35th.)”
ONTARIO HAS NOT DELIVERED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
“Canada’s story gets even more depressing when only young people under 25 are counted. The country then falls to 71st, another new low. Young people were once, on average, the happiest Canadian cohort; now they’re the most miserable.”
Apparently they want to make the changes apply retroactively to existing requests that haven't been completed yet. Someone requested something good.
Gutting Freedom of Information is diabolical.
But it’s being done because basically every file in Ontario has been mismanaged under this government.
We need more open data and transparency in Ontario, not less.
Here's the receipt.
While this is specialized, I do not blame the provider. They have to manage their own capacity with the resources they have.
But nobody should need to wait years, even for chronic issues. That's the point!
Literally just spoke with someone who received a THREE YEAR WAIT TIME to see a medical specialist in Toronto.
The rising dysfunction of our healthcare system is an insult to the people of Ontario.
