Re: What Poilievre’s housing ‘documentary’ gets right (Dec. 8)
I disagree with the Editorial Board’s assessment of Pierre Poilievre’s housing policy announcement.
Housing supply is not the major problem in Canada’s housing crisis. The lack of affordable housing supply is. Developers have continued to supply condo towers in, and sprawl around, major urban centres, and will now do so with more tax breaks than ever before.
However, this supply has not addressed affordability issues.
You are right that the job of an opposition party is to diagnose policy problems and to provide effective legislative solutions. Sadly, the Conservative opposition has failed to do this regarding the two biggest policy challenges Canada faces: lack of affordable housing and lack of government action to deal with the climate crisis. Their prescriptions offer more wishful thinking that the private market will solve our problems if governments leave them alone to maximize their profits, or better yet provide them with corporate assistance while they do so.
Wendy Hughes, Toronto, ON
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