ANALYSIS: Feds Can’t So Easily Shift Responsibility for Housing Affordability

ANALYSIS: Feds Can’t So Easily Shift Responsibility for Housing Affordability
A new building under construction in Ottawa in a file photo. Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times
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The Conservatives didn’t waste much time before seizing upon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent comments on skyrocketing housing costs—one of the most impactful issues Canada is grappling with.

“Housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters on July 31, seeming to shift the bulk of the burden for solving Canada’s affordability crisis on other levels of government.