Under pressure in the polls, Justin Trudeau’s new cabinet began a three-day retreat in Charlottetown, where the prime minister promised housing affordability solutions and defended Canada’s immigration numbers.
Experts say they’ve given Trudeau’s cabinet a strategy to tackle the housing crisis. Recent polling shows housing affordability is a major issue for Canadians.
The authors of a recent report that pitched the federal government a way to restore affordability to Canada’s housing market say they’re optimistic their recommendations could soon become Liberal policy after addressing Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and his cabinet in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Tim Richter, president & CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, said addressing Canadians’ anxiety about finding affordable housing is a “bit of a Gordian knot (new window) when it comes to policy.” We were able, I think, to boil it down into a path forward anyway, a place to start to begin to undo that knot, he told reporters Tuesday.
But before then, I think, governments knew they needed to do something but were really unsure of what to do, what their role is. Along with co-author Mike Moffatt, founding director of the PLACE Centre at the Smart Prosperity Institute, Richter spoke to cabinet ministers meeting in Charlottetown to regroup ahead of the fall session of Parliament. Moffatt said they couldn’t reveal what was said behind closed doors, but suggested the cabinet was receptive to their ideas.
I don’t think we would be here unless they were taking this issue seriously, but I think it will also be incumbent on activists and others in the group to keep holding the government accountable, he said…
Source: ici.radio-canada.ca/
Saturday, May 9, 2026
