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There's been a flurry or Canadian news articles that have basically been nothing but fluff pieces talking about an upcoming but unspoken federal housing strategy and it's all felt like blah blah blah let's buy time.

My hope is that that's because they finally do see what a cluster fuck the situation is and have realized that they can either do something to fix it, or be forced to wear it in the next election, and these comments are hints that they will aggressively build out housing themselves (and hopefully the transit infrastructure necessary to support it and connect it to existing population hubs in a sustainable way given that Sean Fraser has been given the dual role of housing and infrastructure).

Can't say I'm not skeptical though given how hard the government has ignored cost of living exploding and only addressed it with half bandaids, let alone root problem cures.

No, really? Liberals talking up progressive policy options?

Either we've been time-warped back to the 1970s, or things are much, much worse than they're letting on, or they're going to call an election.

Regardless, call me when they commit funding--not when they "refer it to a committee" or "have a Royal Commission to study the issue"--and actually take action, or else I'll consider this the "Electoral Reform" promise all over again.