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A problem his policy has also made is that home builders are required to supply 7 years of warranties for buyers in their NEW-built homes, and this has imposed itself as a serious problem as these builders, who often build dozens or even 1000s of new homes, can be attacked by purposeful damages to homes thus discouraging many to build homes. ?‍♂️

Where in Ontario is that wharf with colorful buildings?

Every province has good and bad qualities, except Ontario. I lived in Ontario on and off for about 20 years. Not one good thing comes to mind about this province, not one. I've also lived in Quebec and Alberta, both great. Ontario is like the armpit of Canada, it just stinks, definitely because of the government overreach, extremely high tax robbery on everything you buy, very high cost of living compared to both Quebec and Alberta. Both Alberta and Quebec are wayyyyyy cheaper to live than Ontario, and to be totally fair, the people in Ontario seem to be the most narcissistic i've seen within 3 provinces i've lived in, and with the worst roads. So much car repairs every single year from just driving on the main roads, which are basically just pot holes because they line their pockets with the taxes instead of using the money to fix the roads. The people in gov make so much money, there is none left after their payday to fix the roads or build any parks or things for families. Ontario is actually a bad place to live, especially with other good options available, it's the only province i don't recommend moving to if you want a decent quality of life. You can't even find a doctor here unless you live within or drive for 2 hours to get to the city. It's extremely inconvenient and expensive for no reason other than tax grabs and high fees for every single thing you have to do in life, there's a high fee for that in Ontario.

Canada has no culture of its own. People from all around the world gathered here to escape wars, political issues, or for economic reasons from their home country. When honeymoon period is over (around 5 years) they start realizing that leaving behind their own people, culture, festivals, food, etc was not a good idea. Life in Canada (maybe in United States too) is very monotonous and robotic. Years and years go by\nand people are doing same thing over and over. Weather is very unpredictable to plan out anything in advanced. Due to bad weather entire country is designed to be indoors. People leave their wooden houses in cars to work in buildings with no open windows. Unless you leave in core downtown you won't see people on road as everybody is either in their vehicles, in their house, or slaving away at work. To all people who are looking to relocate to Canada: If you are doing well in your home country then do not leave. Life in western countries look good from far but when you live here it's different. Loneliness and depression will be your biggest enemy. Stay in your home country around your own culture and people.

What's the use of building homes if you can't afford a mortgage???

Hi i am a building electrician, how can i apply

well sure build more houses. its not going to matter if we keep building the houses we are building.

Quick fix: Remove rent control and build houses. It's called capitalism. Supply and demand.

He's citing BUILD BACK BETTER rhetoric. Very strange hearing this from a Canadian PM

More money to build houses we cant afford.

Facts are in 2021 Canada welcomed over 400 thousand new permanent residents. We printed over 400 billion dollars in the last two years. The average time for a permit to build a new house is over 6 months. What I don’t understand is that we welcomed all the new immigrants while in a housing crisis if a hotel is full do they still keep renting rooms? We printed 400 billion dollars to pay for Covid where if we would have just used masks and washed our hands we could have saved 400 billion dollars. With Canada having one of the world’s lowest population to land mass and tons of natural resources I can’t understand how we can’t cut costs shorten wait times on permits.

Fire gatekeepers, build houses. Pierre Poilievre for leader!

Housing construction hasn't kept up?? Instead of closing the floodgates, let's throw more money at municipalities to build more 60-storey micro-condos and sprawling ticky-tacky suburbs. Oh, but to get in an individual building permit to build your own home is near impossible because of the climate emergency.

The government is the problem and the solution is to get out of the way and let the free market build.

Programs won’t help ! Decrease the carbon tax and taxes on fuels. Materials and building costs have skyrocketed due to your policies!!

We need to end newcomers from Buying older homes and be obliged to build their own homes on vacant land. No one should be allowed to buy a 500 thousand dollar home then tear it down and then build a multi- million dollar home that no one can afford.

This US or Canadian Urban Sprawl, sort of started post WWII, when, to kickstart a post War economic boon, the building, automobile and materials industry lobby, promoted the suburban living homesteads.\nLand in the city perimeter was (and is) costly. So, pick up large tracts of land and build cheap single family homes. Promote the 'wonderful life of openness, safety', etc in the never ending sprawl of an unplanned growth.\nSoon enough, city planners figured out that this model is unsustainable (transport, connectivity, social life disconnect, etc), but it has morphed from low/middle income segment to uber rich gated communities. And is sadly copied blindly in emerging economies.\n\nMost of the comments below are the opinions of recent immigrant folks.\nWhat do the people, who've lived in a similar environment all their lives, think about it?

I hope this is the peak of the housing market and it’s all downhill from here, but that will require some seriously speedy construction, from skyscrapers to townhouses, detached is probably not worth it to build anymore bc it takes up too much room

If you ask me, India has also become a lonely country. Unless you like to stay within a single community, religion, FAMILY etc. you become isolated. And cities are now full of tall apartment buildings where people are locked away. Same with gated communities everywhere and suburbs. Lonely people watching the world on TV.

How about we slow immigration until housing supply is increased and then keep building and immigration rates tied to eachother so that we all have affordable homes? It’s not rocket science

Lol all the new houses here in be here in bedford NS are like 650 to 700 000 for like a 3 or 4 bed 2 bath not even big at all. Can only imagine what all these new houses they are talking about building are going to be . What a joke. 4 billion? They are gonna want 8 billion back. No doubt.

Just think of all the green house gasses caused by building these houses. Sorry 10 percent interest rate on the way just like date thanks to Toronto.

Another issue is that some white families have sold off or abandoned their family homes in once vibrant community's because they have refused to live with other people of color who happen to move in. Then black communities build up over say 50 to 75 years a great community, their own churches , schools, day cares, playground, crime watch and near jobs and easy transportation suddenly others with money wish to expand in those same areas. So taxes go up. Fire insurance goes up. Schools are closed down due to so called lack of budgets. Factory's move out farther. And or new higher technologies come in only looking for a few or certain type of trained skilled workers with higher educational degree's. All of these complex events cause the death of a functional great long standing community. By the time others come and say hey, where are the kids, where is the small local business and the great gardens, farmer markets or book clubs, libraries, community workshops, and black church's giving out food? Trust me its not such a simple answer. Many many other forces are at play. Entire sections of the city and rural areas have gone through displacement.

He just told you what one problem is. Immigration. Immigration has continued but house building can't keep up. They should have acted years ago but all the foreign money being brought in to the big cities has put them out of reach. That's only the tip of the iceberg. We need immigration but what numbers I'm not sure?? Maybe the answer is tradesmen to catch up on the building trades and bring costs down? The biggest problem though is the deficit financing leading to inflation. Like father like son...maybe the answer is think before you vote.

He should be more worried about building homes for the homeless already in Canada

Developers and builder being charged 40% more for development charges (per door) so the cost gets passed down to the buyer...to the point new home prices stop making sense and builders don’t want to build. Cup of coffee has better margins. Justin knows he’s the one causing housing shortage, food shortage and soon fuel shortage.

Why would people go outside the only things you see outside are these house that all look the same you can't even open a store ar any business were people can hangout these suburbs are depressing.Unlike Africa or Asian countries where there not much restriction where people can build a house or business or open a shop if they want to

The young framers that build those house can't even afford a car and rent

two problems he created. bringing in millions of refugees and immigrants as well the government controls building permits. guys a piece of trash rich kid.

Answer: high taxes, high cost of living, little opportunity to build and maintain wealth for the commoners.

Lol building more new houses won't make the price better ?? anyone who thinks liberals are still what they used to be are sadly lost

Double what we are building now? What will that do to the already insanely high cost of building material

Building more houses isn't the solution. The investors, the rich and privileged worldwide and major corporations are eating up the inventory of houses. This causes low supply and high prices. Of course he says build more houses, more tax money. Shame on him.

Well Trudeau let's big corporations buy up all the single homes, instead of letting them buy only apartment building. Leave the single homes for families

if we cant build housing fast enough to keep up to imigration why are you tacking in so much answer new canadians vote liberal because of open borders

Basic answer is, I {Trudeua}, have been jamming immigrants into Canada faster than the construction industry can build new homes/living units, so your Son's generation, and probably the next, is fucked, thanks to me.

What does building new homes have to do with the price of a home? The bar has been set, nobody is going to go back to selling houses for 150,000 - 200,000 doesn't matter how many homes you build. Also how long will it be before we actually see results from this 4 billion investment, by the time it does anything to help there will be even more Canadians and more immigrants. So there will be an entire generation missing out. \nMaybe you need to go back to school and learn better math skills.

better building materials could fix that problem easily... something like cheeper osb.... alibaba can get osb for under 8 dollars a sheet yet its still sitting at 50+ dollars per sheet because of building certification stamps.

Governments do not set housing prices ... the market and speculators do. So do you want a prime minister to freeze housing prices? Make a rule that sellers are not allowed to ask for more than 10% extra above their own purchase price? Order construction firms to build 100,000s of domiciles to be priced at $250,000 even if it is a loss? Set a minimum wage of $35/hr so a 2 income family might be able to buy at current prices? Politicians do fix/cause inflation.

Quietly homeownership will disappear over the next 25-50 yrs. Big business will own most homes in big city. The rich will make sure they have control more and more, farmers will lease/rent the land and homes will be rented. Only big business will be able to pay the maintenance and taxes on buildings and land soon and also right it off. Just wait until the next big recession when many lose pensions, jobs, investments, and bitcoin crashes. Not only will it be dual income families instead of single income nowadays…it will be 2 families in homes, quadruple income and working until they are 65 or even 70….trudeau smiles and pretends he will fix everything while Canadians suffer more and more. If you have a chance to sell and then buy in a safer community, do it now because if you have not noticed a lot more homeless and vanlifers yet, or occupied camper trailers in friends and families driveways then you will notice soon, try and buy where crime is less of an issue while homes are easy to buy and sell.

Does he even know the price of lumber to build a home and the price of fuel to deliver materials needed. Less immigrants till housing levels off might help

Look at SMIRK ON JT FACE. !!! WHY WILL HE NOT ADMIT HE CAUSED IT WITH ALL THE IMMIGRANTS HE BROUGHT IN COSTING MAJOR BILLIONS C\n TO tax payers@!! 75% don't even work. Live in low cost housing. Jt created this mess in housing with inflation. Costs of building supplies r 3X higher than 2 yrs ago. Oh yes. Says ppl can rent to buy condos near transit areas. Oh really ??? Don't believe a dam thing he says!!!

Even if they kept up with building homes, they will still be way to much $$$

Ok, so more immigration + less housing = Canadians can't afford homes... Got it. So you're going to start building more homes.. What about the other half of that equation?

This clown needs to start doing substantial things or get out of the way. \nWhen the younger ppl of a nation or city see that they have no future to build their lives they simply up and leave to places with opportunity. That means other countries if necessary. - which hurts the areas future even more as they lose the valuable asset of the next generation. Canada is on the verge of complete stagnation.

Justin Trudeau hasnt had to worry about money at any point in his life. Why would home builders build homes at a reasonable price. More construction doesnt mean better prices

What an absurd statement. Anything NEW they are building is going to cost even more. Trudeau is a clueless

Get rid of the gatekeepers and let builders build instead of your lackies getting in the way!

The federal government owns 10,000 acres at Pickering sitting doing nothing. Why. ?..\n. Build part of the airport and develop the rest of the land. Thousands and thousands of housing units can be built

Lmfao this guy... 4billion to build new homes which will destroy the environment.. because where you going to build these houses/neighborhoods.... And btw we KNOW well likely never be able to own a detached home. Trudeau's failed across the board so what is different with this empty promise?