
Looking to fix housing? Run for mayor, not prime minister
When it comes to solving our housing crisis, expanding government to fix bad government policies makes no sense at all.
When it comes to solving our housing crisis, expanding government to fix bad government policies makes no sense at all.
Even if there was a time when a Conservative rallying cry for lower taxes could defeat a Liberal rallying cry for a strong climate plan, that time is now firmly in the rear-view mirror.
Just because something is unpopular, doesn’t make it wrong. Or unwise.
Creeping independence is making our partisan politics weaker and our politicians dumber.
The pandemic offered Conservatives a chance to robustly defend the use of the institution of government to support families and communities. Instead, they fell back economic conservatism and populist tendencies — and found themselves well outside the mainstream.
In the coming decades, Conservatives must apply the tried-and-true agenda of free markets, subsidiarity and comparative advantage to a new priority: strengthening Canadian families.
By injecting dollars into provincial programs prior to reaching agreements with the provinces, Ottawa has gotten things a little backwards. Still, there are good reasons to think we can muddle towards a better outcome if they really want to do so.