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Dan's avatar

Play the cards you have, and if you don’t like the cards you have, create new ones and play these.

The federal government has massive purchasing power. Use it. Even when it creates a deficit. I don’t believe there is a law that prevents the federal government from being a landlord. Flood the rental market with affordable housing, build starter homes that people can rent to buy. Turn federal lands and offices into housing. Let provinces sue the federal government as much as they like, the more lawsuits the better.

And then do the same thing with healthcare. Hire hundreds of doctors, pay them well and create family health care clinics in areas where people cannot get a family doctor. Create a federal crown corporation that runs clinics, under provincial rules, in areas where it is most needed. Create hospitals specializing in long wait list procedures and invite provinces to send their wait list patients to these clinics.

My main fear is that the Liberals are thinking too small. They need to think big. And then multiply this with 10.

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LinTana's avatar

Would someone tell me please how this "build housing" works? I see a lot of building going on, a few "affordable units for the disadvantaged" and yet when you enquire about it, the starting price is at least 450 to 500 for a tiny place with a condo fee or whatever that doesn't pay for anything of substance to the individual. So "build housing" means what? "subsidize" big builders and have them sell at cost (to whom) or pay for it all and sell to low-income buyers? what exactly does "build housing" mean please? Or is the answer elsewhere? Increase minimum wage? even that isn't going to get you into a condo at 450?

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