The past 20 years have shown us that intensification efforts alone will not solve the housing affordability crisis in Canada. We need to build new homes, and we need to build the kind of homes that families actually want to purchase.
Speaking from experience, I can tell you that doing so won’t always be celebrated by party brass, and that’s ok. Appeasing them might make your life easier, but that’s not your job. Your duty is to put your constituents’ thoughts and concerns first.
This is absolutely the case with the Calgary Affordable Housing Task Force reccomendations. Just because “affordable housing” is in the title does not mean the recommendations would make housing as a whole more affordable.
Under Premier Jason Kenney, the party wandered away from the principles supported by the mainstream conservative movement. The shared values that allowed the merger between the former PC and Wildrose parties – things like smaller government, economic freedom, and grassroots democracy – were effectively abandoned.
I was born a Canadian, and I wish to save a Canada that includes an equal and prosperous Alberta. I sincerely wish to build a reformed Canada that treats all of its people equally and fairly. In fact, this is another opportunity for Albertans to lead the way, for by finding equality and fairness for ourselves, we can create the framework for others to find the same. Ultimately, this will help to build a stronger, freer, prosperous, and more united Canada. But if this is not possible, the majority of my constituents in Cypress-Medicine Hat and from across Alberta have made clear that we must seek another relationship, as a sovereign people.
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