Can\u0027t afford housing? Here\u0027s a $500 cheque
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.., mainly because everyone expected that the recently struck NDP-Liberal deal was going to decisively strangle any notion of fiscal prudence. But the deficit for 2022/23 is $6 billion less than the $58.4 billion that the government was forecasting in fall. And Freeland is getting praise for notWhen compared against the, even when adjusting for inflation. But for context, the last fiscal year added $113.
. “Put simply, Canada is facing a housing shortage,” reads the preamble to the section on housing policy. As to why that’s happening, it’s mainly a problem of local governments refusing to greenlight new construction. On this, all Budget 2022 could really offer were some broad promises to tie federal funds to municipalities found to be increasing the housing supply.Article content
A 2010 photo of then Defence Minister Peter MacKay posing in a mockup F-35 in a press event that infamously cost $47,000. After the Liberals cancelled Conservative plans to buy the F-35, only to reverse them last week, MacKay published a column in the National Post saying that maybe Canada should have just bought the planes in the first place.The budget’s housing portion also contains a line item that could charitably be described as a cruel joke.
Budget 2022 earmarks $475 million in order to cut $500 cheques to Canadians facing “housing affordability challenges.”
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