Canada Housing

A National Post opinion piece written by Pierre Polievre himself? Not only did I read it but I saw it for exactly what it was. Canada needs a Conservative leader who is a functioning adult who has something, anything, to say other than, "TrUdEaU bAd."

I feel like a good chunk of that has been the fact that our GDP has been heavily reliant on real estate for the last few decades.

Here is a link with a graphic showing the percentage of GDP being real estate, which has been on the rise since 2000. Granted, its skyrocketed since the pandemic, but that's largely because of the slow growth in other sectors.

Unfortunately, we have significant tax credits associated with home ownership and sales, resulting in people planning on their house downsizing funding retirements. Drastic changes are needed, but are effectively political suicide. Additionally, we have terribly design/planned fees for development- check out '99% Invisible's podcast, 'The Missing Middle', where they discuss how zoning and permitting provide negative pressures towards building luxury/condos or single family units and away from affordable development.

Did you actually read the article?

It's written by one of the loudest and most blatantly biased-for-financial-gain people in this country.

So no, I did not read the article. Wasting time going and buying a lottery ticket has a better chance of being beneficial to me in any way.

If Mr Trump (ghost-)writes a book, I think I'm not wasting time with that either. Same reason.