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Budget 2025's Impact on Housing, Immigration & Jobs
Canada's Budget 2025 and its impact on housing policy. The hosts critique the $25 billion housing investment as insufficient, noting it includes infrastructure conditions, a limited GST rebate, immigration cuts, and controversial OAS spending — while the construction industry warns of job losses.
The federal HST rebate on new homes up to $1 million only helps about 20,000 buyers per year nationwide — essentially a political soundbite rather than a broad affordability solution.
BILD and the Large Urban Centre Alliance criticize the budget for relying on backward-looking data while…
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