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Liberals pitch Canadians on renewed housing and affordability focus, drawing contrast to Conservatives | CTV News

Liberals pitch Canadians on renewed housing and affordability focus, drawing contrast to Conservatives

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberals-pitch-canadians-on-renewed-housing-and-affordability-focus-drawing-contrast-to-conservatives-1.6497158

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau started his post-shuffle re-pitching of his government as affordability-focused to Canadians on Thursday, seeking to draw a sharp contrast between the Liberals and their Conservative rivals. Housing was another key change made as part of the shuffle, and now the minister in charge says his file will be a 'complete priority.'

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NeonKnight52

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I think the contrast is that the Conservatives have talked about addressing the supply side rather than the demand side. Pollievre has talked about "removing the gatekeepers" to allow more homes to be built.

I'm not sure if cities are actually making it hard to build more homes. But I would guess that from a city's perspective, you'd want to limit the rate of new homes being built so you can keep your land valuations as high as possible to maximize property tax revenue. But again, that's just a theory. And not sure the Conservatives could do anything about that anyway if it were the case