The slow, uphill climb to fix the housing mess

Affording a home now is not quite as problematic as it was during the COVID years, but affordability is still the worst it’s been in Canada in 25 years, according to RBC.
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Housing Minister Gregor Robertson. The federal government will have to revolutionize the country’s notoriously unproductive homebuilding sector, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion
BY LES WHITTINGTON
January 21, 2026

OTTAWA—No one seems to know what’s going on in the Canadian housing market just now.

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