I feel like the article doesn’t address my point very well, though. It uses relative terms like ‘more’ and ‘grown’ to suggest the federal government is taking on a greater role, but it’s measuring from a time where it was doing the least. If the federal government wanted to involve itself in housing it could re-implement the policy is had from the 40’s through the 80’s and directly fund the building of social housing.
Unfortunately since the pervasiveness of neoliberal thought from the Mulroney/Thatcher/Reagan era on the federal government only likes to act through gaming the system with tax incentives rather than directly making and executing a plan. Every new development has to be created through the filter of making a private entity a profit and we’re all suffering from the end results of that philosophy now.
This is basically true, however, since ratification of the constitution, the feds are more limited in their ability to intrude into provincial jurisdiction.
@grte @Grappling7155 this addresses his claim, quite well: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-housing-responsible-feds-provinces-1.6924290
I feel like the article doesn’t address my point very well, though. It uses relative terms like ‘more’ and ‘grown’ to suggest the federal government is taking on a greater role, but it’s measuring from a time where it was doing the least. If the federal government wanted to involve itself in housing it could re-implement the policy is had from the 40’s through the 80’s and directly fund the building of social housing.
Unfortunately since the pervasiveness of neoliberal thought from the Mulroney/Thatcher/Reagan era on the federal government only likes to act through gaming the system with tax incentives rather than directly making and executing a plan. Every new development has to be created through the filter of making a private entity a profit and we’re all suffering from the end results of that philosophy now.
This is basically true, however, since ratification of the constitution, the feds are more limited in their ability to intrude into provincial jurisdiction.
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