Canada on verge of housing crisis due to Liberal inaction: Poilievre

OTTAWA — Government inaction on housing is leading Canada towards an unprecedented crisis, Canada’s Opposition leader warns.

Speaking Tuesday from a residential construction site in Brampton, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said inaction by the Mark Carney Liberals on homebuilding is sparking an unrecoverable cycle of layoffs, unemployment and withering-away of skilled trades — leaving Canada with a devastating shortage of skilled workers.

“The Canadian Home Builders’ Association says that 35% of their members are already laying people off,” Poilievre said.

“The Residential Construction Council (of Ontario) says that the sector is already laying off thousands of people, and that’s happening mostly in the Greater Toronto Area, where unemployment is already facing near-record highs.”