Homebuilding is ready for its tech makeover

This can help our national housing crisis and scale Canada’s advanced manufacturing sector, positioning our technology companies to compete in global markets.

Gregor Robertson, a first-time MP and a former mayor of Vancouver, B.C., is now tasked with working on solutions to Canada's housing crisis as minister in charge of the file. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JAYSON MYERS

July 3, 2025

It has become a familiar feature of neighbourhood life: building sites cluttered with machines and materials, open to the weather, and ringed by fencing that can’t hide the mud and mess. The whine of circular saws, the pistol-pop of nail guns, the beep of concrete trucks g...

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