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Politics Week: Trudeau Post-Budget Housing Sales Pitch

CANADA
(MNI) OTTAWA
  • PM Trudeau and FM Freeland continue touring to pitch measures for new housing from last Tuesday's budget. A plan to close the 3m unit gap agencies say is needed is now in place but some municipalities resist federal funding conditions and few units will be built before election due next year.
  • Conservatives draw high-profile candidates ahead of next election from other parties, a lawmaker from Quebec’s provincial CAQ and a former British Columbia Liberal finance minister.
  • Sample headlines: The Liberals move from borrow and spend, to tax and spend (Globe and Mail); Dominic LeBlanc wants his close friend Justin Trudeau’s job (Globe); The federal budget is a Liberal strategy driven by panic (National Post); Gusher of Liberal spending won't put out the fire in this dumpster (CTV)
  • Polling aggregator 338Canada shows Conservatives likely to win majority government if an election were held now. Election is due in 2025 under traditional four-year mandate.
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  • PM Trudeau and FM Freeland continue touring to pitch measures for new housing from last Tuesday's budget. A plan to close the 3m unit gap agencies say is needed is now in place but some municipalities resist federal funding conditions and few units will be built before election due next year.
  • Conservatives draw high-profile candidates ahead of next election from other parties, a lawmaker from Quebec’s provincial CAQ and a former British Columbia Liberal finance minister.
  • Sample headlines: The Liberals move from borrow and spend, to tax and spend (Globe and Mail); Dominic LeBlanc wants his close friend Justin Trudeau’s job (Globe); The federal budget is a Liberal strategy driven by panic (National Post); Gusher of Liberal spending won't put out the fire in this dumpster (CTV)
  • Polling aggregator 338Canada shows Conservatives likely to win majority government if an election were held now. Election is due in 2025 under traditional four-year mandate.