While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Mike Moffatt.
This week’s federal Budget sends a signal to Canadians that the government’s thinking on housing has evolved. Instead of trying to increase housing supply, it is placing greater emphasis on reducing housing demand. The promises made in the Liberal platform to build more have been watered down: housing targets are being softened, and the government has adopted a hard line...
Gregor Robertson has a task before him that must seem impossible: simultaneously double housing starts while ensuring that those newly built homes are affordable to the middle class. And if that weren’t enough, the federal housing minister also has to convince Canadians that families will be able to purchase those homes and that investors will not gobble them all up...
Ontario is experiencing a host of problems, from rates of homelessness not seen in decades to the net loss of 100,000 residents to other provinces over the past four years. Many of these problems share a root cause: homebuilding that lags the rest of the country. This is not a recent phenomenon. Over the past six years Ontario is in...
Earlier this week, the federal government reversed their 2022 deregulation of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. This means that outside of a few industries, the proportion of temporary foreign workers (TFW) a firm can have has been reduced back to 10 per cent, and firms in urban areas can no longer apply to get a temporary foreign worker if the...
If you know a young person who struggled to find a summer job they are not alone. This has been the worst summer on record for youth employment outside of the pandemic. Many factors — from a weak economy to a population boom of young people — are at play with one of the largest being the federal government’s 202...
Record population growth. Falling housing construction. These are the ingredients of Ontario’s housing crisis, which continues to worsen as rents across the Greater Toronto Area exceed $2,000 for a one-bedroom apartment. The impact of population growth can hardly be overstated. In the last 36 months, the province has experienced a decade’s worth of population growth, growing by 1.2 million people...