Freeland stresses economic focus, while cabinet hears from housing experts on Day 2 of retreat

Cabinet heard from multiple panels of guest speakers on the second day of the retreat, including Mike Moffatt and Tim Richter, co-authors of a recent report on Canada's national housing crisis, who presented four broad points to ministers about how to resolve the housing shortage.

Now-Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and International Trade Minister Mary Ng make their way into a cabinet meeting in the West Block in November 2022. This cabinet retreat will set the government's path for the next year, ministers said.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

August 22, 2023

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I.—Day 2 of the federal cabinet retreat in Prince Edward Island was business heavy, as expert guest speakers presented to ministers on issues like housing, and as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stressed to reporters, the foc...

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