John Robson: It Seems Our Politicians Want the Government Involved in Everything

Published on April 15, 2024

Commentary So I see in the news where the feds are going to build a squillion homes or so, “unlocking the door to the middle class for millions.” Gosh. How grand. Nice of them. Except it does call to mind Owen Wilson’s question to Jackie Chan in “Shanghai Knights”: “What in our history together makes you think I’m capable of something like that?” Finance Minister and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland promised that by hurling $6 billion at the problem, “We are going to turbocharge the construction of new homes.” And “turbocharging” a major economic sector sounds great, though not as great as letting millions shivering in the shabby working-class dark into warm middle-class light. But if you really know how, and housing secretly is a federal responsibility contrary to the “that was then” claim of one J. Trudeau, why haven’t you already? And since you haven’t, what makes you so sure you can?...

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