>>The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supply of housing, COVID being an unfortunately timed disruption which further strained th

>>The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supply of housing, COVID being an unfortunately timed disruption which further strained that supply. Nothing was built for almost a year, but the population continued to grow. It was completely asinine for Trudeau to refer to potentially restricting the number of foreign students[1] because, while this is a contributing factor, he sidestepped the primary driver which is that the largest reason for Canada's population growth[2] is our (permanent) immigration targets, where said policy is set primarily by the federal government (although some provinces have overlapping programs for immigrants such as Quebec). [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-housing-cabinet-retreat/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-hou... [2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-record-population-growth-migration-1.6787428 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-record-population-grow...