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HAMILTON, ONTARIO L8P 1K2 HAMILTON’S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE SINCE JANUARY 5, 1995, VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER USING VEGETABLE OIL-BASED INKS 4 OCTOBER 10 — 23, 2019 VIEW [PERSPECTIVE] by MICHAEL TERRY for a re–election? Assuming the Republican Senate doesn’t actually THE TUNNEL VISION OF IMPEACHMENT remove Trump from office, he’ll be running again. This time he’ll be like this really might be it, that finally this. As the walls begin to actually claiming the impeachment in something is hurting Trump in a way close in, are we sure we want to see Congress was a hoax, witch hunt, fake that most cynics always felt would be exactly what this man is capable of? news, that actually amounts to collu- impossible. The level of delirium on What if his madness grows exponen- sion and election interference! display in the American body politic tially, along with the attempt to Imagine now the man loses an election really has increased exponentially. You impeach him? We’ve already seen signs and decides that the results should not can see it on the airwaves, as pundits of this, as the man’s Twitter feed has stand? What the hell would actually and anchors sporadically scramble somehow gotten even more insane. unfold? Even if the utmost chaos were from scandal to scandal, even admit- Hell, he just rubber–stamped a poten- avoided, let’s say these results, which ting they don’t know how to really tial genocide! Probably, Trump con- Trump will undoubtedly dispute, are explain all if to anyone at all. Instead vinced himself that he needed to Wag ratified, what then? What on earth they run Dear Leader’s tweets up on a a Damn Dog, and so after talking with does a Trump transition look like? screen and just gag and guffaw. “I Turkey, he suddenly announced he was Think he just gets stuff ready to help promise you, valued viewer, this isn’t okay with Turkey invading northern out the incoming President? normal!” Syria. Maybe sensing some discontent, During his first campaign, chaos The obsession over impeachment here’s how the man tried to play down was Trump’s best friend. He confused is not necessarily unwarranted, but it concerns and assert control. Really, both his opponents and the voting might be extremely misguided. For all actually look at this tweet: “As I have public into the strangest election vic- of the attention paid to each ‘stunning’ stated before, and just to reiterate, if tory in American history. This time, leak, each ‘unprecedented’ exposition, Turkey does anything that I, in my the chaos is becoming his enemy, but IT FEELS ALMOST absurd to write a piece to Kid Rock for not supporting his wish each botched attempt at a coverup, great and unmatched wisdom, consider more worryingly, it really might burn about the current impeachment to purchase Greenland. Is that a quid everyone is too busy trying to process to be off limits, I will totally destroy down the house. Everything that is process unfolding against Donald pro quo? Nobody knows! Perhaps Rudy the mania that no one is even bother- and obliterate the Economy of Turkey about to unfold in the next year and a Trump in the halls of American power. Giuliani will light himself on fire while ing to consider what normal will ever (I’ve done before!).” Obviously, this half will almost certainly be utterly The warp speed with which this hamming it up with Sean Hannity. look like again. No one is even sent the world scrambling, and led to beyond both the people and institu- deranged and exhausting tale is now Every conceivable insanity seems attempting to come to grips with the contradicting messages from the White tions involved. It is this unknowing unfolding would easily render any squarely in play. It is difficult to differ- potential outcomes of all this. House, the U.S. State Department, that underpins all of this mess, it is this analysis in any particular moment out- entiate much of what has happened in This is not to suggest that Donald and the Pentagon. It laid bare the uncertainty which is the elephant in dated as soon as it is printed. In the America from the moment Donald Trump should not be held to account absolute vacuum of power in the the room. What looms is unspeakably mere hours before this is to be printed, Trump descended down his escalator for his behaviour. But, surely we should world’s most powerful country, and the troubling, and perhaps that’s why the it’s truly anyone’s guess what might and into a throes of a madness that give a bit of pause, and wonder exactly danger of what a man like Trump may tunnel vision of impeachment gathers unfold. Maybe Trump will admit on would make Shakespeare blush lo what it is that will be achieved by all of try if he ends up sensing that the end steam. It’s a last distraction before Twitter that he wants to withhold aid those few years ago. But, it does look really is coming. whatever has been sowed truly comes What would an impeachment do [CA T CH] by DON MCLEAN to be reaped. V CITY AGAIN BATTLING PROVINCE THE CITY IS challenging yet another massive rewrite of plan- requirement to review them “based on the ecological value and ning rules by the provincial government. Planning staff, with significance” of the affected landscape. the full backing of councillors, oppose the province’s elimina- Other changes to the PPS give priority to “market–based tion of policies to fight climate change and protect sensitive need” and “market demand” for new housing, terms which staff natural areas. They are also questioning “market based” rules believe could “result in maintaining a market ‘status quo’ that that will make it easier for developers to pave over farmland is primarily based on a perceived desire for low density housing and effectively shift planning approvals “from a municipal–led and will do nothing to encourage a shift to an urban form that approach to a developer–led one.” is based on increased density.” The city notes that “market At issue is a major revision of the Provincial Policy need and market demand are subjective terms” and asks who Statement (PPS) which sets out the overriding rules that all will define them and how that definition will be determined. land use planning in Ontario “must be consistent with”. The Hamilton currently is carrying out a large scale review of PPS directs municipal policies on housing, infrastructure, how to accommodate expected population growth to 2041 and transportation, economic development, aggregate extraction, whether an expansion of the urban area onto more rural lands land servicing arrangements and other municipal activities. is justified. Multiple developers are pushing hard to expand res- The province’s new version limits climate change to idential development on foodlands to the south of the urban preparing for its “potential” impacts. The council–endorsed area. The largest proposal would add 80,000 residents to Elfrida staff report argues this “suggests uncertainty and does not in the biggest urban boundary expansion in Hamilton’s histo- acknowledge that impacts from climate change are already ry. Staff specifically warn that shifting that review to a mar- occurring”. Noting the city declaration of an emergency, it is ket–based approach “may identify a requirement for a larger even blunter about the provincial removal of all directions to urban expansion area” prevent climate change.