Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, vying for the Liberal leadership, announced competing policy proposals. Carney aims to incentivize prefabricated homes to address the housing affordability crisis, while Freeland focuses on attracting Canadian doctors and nurses back from the U.S. through loan subsidies and bonuses.
OTTAWA — Rival Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland issued duelling policy pledges on Thursday, with one candidate vowing to speeding up homebuilding and the other promising to bring doctors back to Canada .
But Carney did not comment on any of the specifics of what those incentives would entail, pledging no specific amount of funding or tax credits. The plan would offer doctors $200,000 and nurses $100,000 after five years. Ottawa would pay off a portion of U.S. student loans they have as well: $300,000 for each returning doctor and $50,000 for each nurse. Loans transferred to Canada would be made interest free.All the candidates will soon be turning to preparations for the two upcoming French and English debates in Montreal.
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