In case you hadn’t heard, Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis, and by golly the federal government must do something about it! At least, that’s the prevailing opinion of the liberal chattering classes, who are demanding a national strategy to increase the supply of houses, rental units and Soviet-style co-operative housing.
For the past couple years, the Trudeau Liberals have at least been pretending to address the issue, in the typical “we’ll add a heap of regulations and throw a bunch of money at the problem so it looks like we’re taking it seriously” sort of way.
