The housing sub-plot in the federal election
The race is laser-focused on Trump and tariffs, but the three national parties have trotted out housing affordability strategies
By John LorincThough it seems like an eternity ago, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives circa 2023-24 desperately wanted this election to be about the ruinous cost of housing (and Justin Trudeau, of course). Poilievre starred in numerous extended and effective videos — e.g., “Housing hell: how we got there and how we get out”‘ — dramatizing the myriad ways in which the housing approvals system had gone off the rails. Municipal “gatekeepers,” according to his narrative... Read more
