Canadian Politics Today

Pierre Trudeau Foundation: charitable, independent, non-partisan, scholarship foundation that PM Justin Trudeau has no involvement in. Again, the media frenzy started/led by the G&M, "citing an unnamed national security source, the G&M published allegations". That's 2 charities in 3 years - well done G&M!

The federal government created Wartime Housing Ltd, a Crown corporation that built thousands of small houses across the country. They responded to the housing crisis by building houses that they rented to servicemen and, when they eventually privatized the program, they used CMHC to get them mortgages. The market today isn't interested in small houses for low-income people and has failed miserably at providing it. But there's already a precedent in solving this problem and it worked.

It isn’t the scale or scope of Matlow’s initial proposal that makes it feel noteworthy. It’s that a credible candidate for mayor is proposing getting the government back into the business of building public housing. We all had complaints about how they did it once upon a time. But in retrospect, at least in those days there was public housing that had been built to complain about.

Companies don’t actually build anything.  They hire people to build.

The government doesn’t actually build anything.  They hired companies to build.  Regardless, this is flawed premise as even small houses are extremely expensive today.  Why?  Because demand FAR exceeds supply.  Why?  Because of several reasons, but the main driver is more new citizens than new living units built.  To suggest that companies aren’t interested in small housing is absurd, as a great deal of money can be made building all types of housing.  Even small homes.  But even if that was the case, if enough so called large homes were being built it would still impact supply and demand.  Large homes would become less expensive.  People living in apartments and or small homes that could afford a larger home would do do.  And apartments and small homes would open up for other people.  You people have no concept of how a market works, and basic concepts like supply vs demand.  You blame “the market” when the government conducts policies that distort the market.  But you don’t blame the government for those distortions.  It’s completely Orwellian.  Even if we took your ridiculous premise as true.  We have a government that KNOWS there is a huge housing crisis, but has completely ignored it, and continued to exacerbate the situation with the highest immigration rate in the G7, even though they know Canada has the lowest living units per thousand citizens in the G7.  That’s not just irresponsible, it’s evil.  So it’s not a surprise that you and your butt buddy ate big supporters of this government.  Anything that screws the middle class, you’re in favour of.