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Makes sense. Despite what Conservatives across the country have been saying. Provincial governments are the best positioned to actually solve housing related problems.
Federal governments have the ability to build a massive amount of social housing and related infrastructure in conjunction with provincial and municipal governments.
They are just ideologically opposed to it.
The trouble is "in conjunction" the federal government has seemed willing to help fund this sort of thing for years. But provincial governments have no interest in doing anything.
This is why the federal government has started bypassing the provinces to work directly with municipalities.
Yes, true, and as I mentioned the cons and libs are ideologically opposed to risking the uppermid property equity of their main supporters.
However cf. the housing co-op initiatives of the 70's and 80's and other initiatives that don't require the provinces.
Only if you pretend the problem is lack of housing not insane immigration. Maybe importing carpenters instead of truckers and counter staff would help.