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Originally Posted by White Out 403
it should be prohibitively expensive for people to own a home thats empty and simply an "investment property". The government should also be using the power of the purse to force cities to make building homes faster, cheaper, and make a lot more low cost housing available.
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While I agree with you in principle. The FEDERAL government cannot do that. It HAS to be the provincial government.
Municipalities are not recognized under the constitution, they are a creature of the province. The jurisdiction falls to the province.
My hometown went to the Supreme Court of Canada over equalization payments and how a portion should be going to municipalities.