the plight of young people has faded into the background, as the trade war with the U.S. takes centre stage in Canada’s federal election. Meanwhile, political parties have said more about protecting seniors’ retirements than helping young Canadians get a head start.
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New polling conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail and CTV News suggests that while the trade war is the top issue for Canadians 55 years and older, the cost of living is the priority for younger Canadians. Only one in 10 Canadians polled under the age of 35 said the trade was their main issue.
Canadians under the age of 35 are also more likely to trust Mr. Poilievre (38 per cent) – who has made the cost of living a central focus of his campaign – than Mr. Carney (26 per cent) to help young people.
The trade war has “taken the oxygen out of the room,” said Mike Moffatt, founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative, a project housed in the University of Ottawa’s Institute for the Environment with the stated goal of reviving Canada’s urban middle class.
“Other than housing, there has been a real absence of any policy to help struggling young people.”
Slowing immigration would also hurt the current labor shortage. You know, the one class who’s responsible of the whole supply chain that get houses built while also paying their fair shares of taxes.
Get investors out of the housing market, stop people buying multiple properties without living in them and then let’s talk about our fellow workers who just want to feed their family.
Without them there is no need for more houses. If they aren’t increasing building faster than they’re coming in, which they aren’t, than that is clearly flawed.
But again why don’t we remember that the provincial governments are the ones who ignored this issue for the last two decades? Iand it’s not like Pierre hasn’t been in parliament those last two decades and what exactly has he brought forth that would have helped housing? That dude is a landlord and lives in a nice big mansion with a fucking chef lol