From: Tasnim FarihaTo: Housing watchersDate: July 30, 2025Re: We’re Still Losing the Affordable Housing War Canada’s housing supply gap is widening, not narrowing. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which first sounded the alarm in 2022, has now quietly moved away from its 2030 target for restoring housing affordability. The agency has shifted to […]| C.D. Howe Institute
This Shadow Budget restores surpluses by 2028/29, lowering the debt ratio from its current level above 42 percent to 35 percent by 2029/30. It also sets Canada on a path to increase its defence spending to meet its 2 percent NATO commitment, increasing defence spending $16 billion compared to plans.| C.D. Howe Institute
Canada is facing threats, and responding to them is job one. But our next government must not lose sight of the longer-term need to reduce our dependence on the US, raise our prosperity, to defend our sovereignty, and put Canada's debt on a sustainable path.| C.D. Howe Institute