It’s an interesting question.
At what point does the policy decisions of the previous government reach their full affect? We are still dealing with fallout from Harper’s failure to properly consult on pipelines. Change happens over decades. We really should be evaluating if Harper was successful now with 10 years of hindsight.
We also know that the macro economic conditions leaders find themselves in are completely out of their control yet the electorate credits or blames them for it.
So why do we have housing issues today?
- increased rates of population increase
- Failure of federal governments since Trudeau senior to invest is housing
- Policies of decreasing qualifying standards for mortgages leading to inflated housing values.
Which ones are Trudeau’s failures? Really just the increased immigration rate. The 2016 addition of the stress test likely saved a lot of people the past few years. But most of our housing problems stem from 40 years of poor policy.
So I think you can evaluate the current PM on how they make decisions rather than the results of those decisions. Trudeau fails because he doesn’t make data driven decisions to benefit people not because housing is expensive right now.
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