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Year 31 • issue 18
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FRIDAY • September 3 • 2021
Conservative leader O’Toole focuses on housing during Barrhaven visit By Charlie Senack Conservative leader Erin O’Toole made a campaign stop in Barrhaven last week to announce the party’s affordable housing strategy. On August 19, residents who live near Flanders Street were woken up by campaign music blaring as the Conservative Party Leader walked down the quiet cul-de-sac. They used the growing suburb of Barrhaven to talk housing, which will undoubtedly be a key campaign focus for all parties. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no crowd with only a handful of residents gathering on the street to watch. Also in attendance was Matt Triemstra, the Conservative Party candidate for Nepean. “It’s time to face the
facts: we have a housing crisis in Canada,” O’Toole told the line of cameras lined up on the front lawn of a home. “The supply of homes to buy as well as to rent is not keeping up with our growing population. Foreign investors are also making our situation worse. They are bidding up prices, and in some cases, they are sitting on investments and leaving homes empty while Canadians search for affordable houses.” O’Toole referenced stories coming out of western provinces where criminals have been found to buy houses as a way of stashing proceeds of crime. Under a Federal Conservative government, O’Toole has committed to building one million homes in the next three years. This would in part
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole joined Nepean Conservative candidate Matt Triemstra on the campaign trail in Barrhaven last week to talk about affordable housing and other election issues. For full election coverage and a look at the candidates in the Nepean riding, see page 4.
be done by putting a ban on foreign investors, who live outside the country from buying property for at least two years, and making changes to the
mortgage stress test. “If people around the world want to invest in our great country — and I want that — we will instead encourage them to
invest in purpose-built rental housing to provide more affordable options to Canadians,” said O’Toole. “We will provide more incentives to get more rental
housing built, and we will create a federal beneficial registry for residential property.”
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