Housing the latest skirmish pitting progressive government against zombie neoliberalism

The growing disparity in wealth between homeowners and those who cannot afford to buy into the residential lottery has become a pressing matter of inequality.

Facing possible political devastation, Housing Minister Sean Fraser and the Trudeau government have decided to take on the national housing crisis in a full-bore, government-wide fashion, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 17, 2024

OTTAWA—From the explosion of the munitions ship that destroyed part of Halifax in 1917 until the election of former prime minister Brian Mulroney in 1984, the federal government had been heavily involved in Canada’s housing policy.

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