Last weekend, Ana Bailão, a longtime member of Toronto city council, took up her job as the first CEO of Build Canada Homes (BCH), the Carney government’s new bureaucracy tasked with doubling the number of homes built annually across the country.

Put aside for a minute the wisdom of appointing a longtime councillor from the city with the second-highest housing prices in the country, and forget for a second that Bailão chaired Toronto city council’s affordable housing committee during the years in which Toronto witnessed some of its worst inflation in housing prices.

There’s a theme here, because the cabinet minister to whom Bailão will report is Gregor Robinson, the Vancouver MP who used to be that city’s mayor and who was in charge when Vancouver pulled ahead of Toronto as Canada’s most

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