grteLiberals pitch Canadians on renewed housing and affordability focus, drawing contrast to Conservatives | CTV News
Maybe I didn’t read this right but how is this drawing contrast to conservatives? Are conservatives promising to make housing more expensive? Feels like all politicians from every corner of the political spectrum will sell themselves as affordability-focused.
Conservatives only ever offer tax cuts to offset higher prices as a solution because the “invisible hand of the free market” should never be interfered with while its jerking off the insanely wealthy.
In theory both sides will help reduce overall costs but one will be at the expense of people who rely on government services vs. the the other that will will try to curb landlords from blatantly gouging.
Of course, I’m not defending that conservative policies for affordability work. They don’t. Just like their policies for public safety, transportation, healthcare and most things don’t, because they’re naive and backwards.
Still, they’ll still market themselves in defense of affordability, safety, transportation, health etc. So declaring oneself as “affordability-focused” is not a differentiating factor.