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Cake day: January 6th, 2025

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  • The disaster was that the immigration policy wasn’t matched with any meaningful policy to create more housing at an affordable price. Immigration is something Canada continues to need, but on housing politicians are torn between the demands of those who can’t afford housing and the demands of the corporations that build and own property, plus (to a lesser extent, because the gains aren’t real) homeowners who want their property to keep increasing in value. And as usual corporate interests tend to win out.

    But maybe there could be corporate pressure for Canada to do something about housing, if it helps other (non-housing) corporations attract skilled workers from the USA and elsewhere.