The issue of housing affordability has become a political crucible — a debate through which Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are defining themselves and each other.
WATCH: Trudeau says no one group is responsible for housing crisisPrime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday cautioned against blaming any individual group for the country's housing crisis, saying the problem is something that has been 'brewing and developing over the past number of decades.' He made the comments on the last day of the Liberal cabinet retreat in Charlottetown.
What Canadians need are "real solutions, not just slogans and buzzwords," Trudeau said Wednesday, apparently in reference to the Conservative leader. A few hours later, Poilievre said Canadians were getting only "more speeches, more photo ops, more puff pieces." Poilievre was, coincidentally, speaking at his own photo op in that moment — he had summoned reporters to the foyer of the House of Commons, where he stood before the glass doors that lead to the chamber.
The House is due to reconvene on September 18. If three extra weeks is enough time to solve the issue of housing affordability in Canada, it's a wonder no one has done it yet. But Poilievre's gambit has the benefit of conveying urgency — and it also makes for a tidy one-liner.Poilievre's conservative solutions
Poilievre suggested the House's time would be used to focus on three things: balancing the budget to reduce inflation, eliminating the "bureaucracy" that makes it harder to build housing and selling federal property to make more land available for development.Poilievre says he would have the federal government unload 6,000 buildings.
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