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  • sbvtoCanada@lemmy.caMark Carney's Economic Plan Released
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    The full point is

    Grow the construction sector workforce. Accelerated home construction will require a corresponding investment in our skilled trade workforce. We will expand and accelerate training and apprenticeship programs for skilled trades so that we can build the homes Canadians need. We will seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a more competitive construction industry with great jobs in trades and manufacturing.

    It talks about educating trades workers, which is excellent, but our construction sector is rapidly aging, and we need as many workers as possible. Canada has a well developed immigration system for bringing new workers into the country. We need to use that.

    Carney’s platform does not mention Federal Skilled Trades Program, TFWs, or any other part of Canada’s immigration system. Which is bizarre, given the Liberals use of immigration, and oblique mentions to Canada’s growing population,







  • sbvtoCanada@lemmy.caMark Carney's Economic Plan Released
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    I don’t know why everyone is fawning over Mark Carney. He is small ‘c’ conservative.

    I think there’s general antipathy towards Poilievre. It feels like classic Anyone But the Conservatives.

    Carney doesn’t have a history with Trudeau, so the hope is that he can steal a victory from the Conservatives.



  • sbvtoCanada@lemmy.caMark Carney's Economic Plan Released
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    Provinces are ultimately responsible for housing

    The current federal government dipped into provincial responsibility to: create national cheap daycare; pay for dental care; and “encourage” municipalities to loosen zoning restrictions. They (rightly) won a court case against Alberta about who can enforce environmental regulations.

    CMHC used to work with the provinces to build housing. They, and the federal government, can do it again.


  • sbvtoCanada@lemmy.caMark Carney's Economic Plan Released
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    1. Build houses. AFAIU, CMHC used to work with provides to do that. The houses could be sold below market price to people below a certain income, or rented out.

    2. Build affordable housing. Rent it out below market rate.

    3. More no-interest loans for co-ops and not-for-profit builders.

    4. Put a lifetime limit on the amount of profit people can make on their primary residence tax free. Maybe 100k? Maybe 100k/five years of primary residence? I dunno. This would have to be on new purchases.

    5. Get more people building houses. Carney proposes more apprenticeships, which is great, but that takes time - we should also encourage more immigrants to build houses as a pathway to citizenship.

    6. Nobody in the trades should pay for an education. Our taxes should cover it. Ditto for healthcare.

    There’s a bunch of other stuff that I like, but may not make sense: remove taxes on construction materials; lower taxes on the trades; crack down on money laundering; disallow foreign ownership of Canadian homes; make improvements on homes tax free.








  • sbvtoCanada@lemmy.caMark Carney's Economic Plan Released
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    I bounced onto his housing policy. It can be summed up as

    We simply do not have enough homes. 🤷‍♂️

    It proceeds to do the neoliberal “let’s hope the private sector saves us” crap.

    Nothing about the feds building housing.

    Nothing about fixing our tax code so houses aren’t investments.

    It doesn’t even talk about bringing in more construction workers.

    Just rEmOvInG rEd TaPe.