I think everyone needs to cut this guy a bit of slack. You've got a rockstar level of intelligence in a leader, a non-career politician, someone who's actually gained knowledge, worked for a living, etc etc., trying to guide a country through two major major fronts, one being a grifter career populist politician trying to gain power at whatever costs. The other front is trying to protect us from and guide us through interactions with a completely deranged and unhinged lunatic, surrounded by a real who's-who of the worlds greatest supervillains, who happens to be our biggest trading partner.

Housing is an important domestic policy, don't get me wrong. Yes it's been ignored, abused by capitalism, whatever else, no arguments here. But right now existence and basically sovereignty>primary economic existence>basically everything else.

The roles these people are fulfilling currently, are probably some of the most thankless roles in existence, on the planet, right now. That they literally cannot win at.

For that, they have my support, through this current moment. Everything else, as terrible as it is and as much as that sucks, pretty much has to go on the backburner. I'm not even really a Liberal guy usually. I've voted for all three at some point, for the record (Cons, Libs, and yes even once for the NDP).

I would actually think they aren't so worried about their various financial interests (which if they are substantial are traditionally supposed to be in blind trusts in the case of the leaders), but more or less are worried more about the voters. Once the boomers die off, over the next couple of decades, I think you'll see a gradual, but dramatic shift in perspective about the governments involvement in housing strategy.

The government thought, couldn't run a lemonade stand without 40 layers of bureaucracy, so I mean be careful what you wish for.