Canada

The rapid expansion of immigration isn’t a mystery, it was explicitly done to combat the perceived labour shortage coming out of the covid era.

The failure to account for how that would impact our already-tight housing market be attributed to mismanagement and lack of focus, or to malice as you suggest. But the housing crisis they created didn’t aid the liberals, and is no small factor in why they have seen their support plummet until so recently.

So if what you describe was actually the plan, it was a stupid plan. Instead I believe that Trudeau had good intentions and was trying to be everything to everyone and moving from hot issue to hot issue without dedicating the appropriate follow through to how the policies were actually doing. I can’t prove this; or prove that your idea is wrong.

But I will say that our crisis and the urgency we need to move can give us an opportunity to address some of the trades issues you bring up. Is there a better way to do these things? Is there another way to accomplish the same functionality of drywall without the causing the suffering you describe? Sure this is hard when the obstacle is to do this for one bespoke home, but what if you had the opportunity to invent a new method for 10000 homes? For 100000 homes? Because we need 3 million homes, so if someone can do this better and we can standardize on that; we can justify factories to make the products we need to make that work.

I’m not say it it’s easy. I’m not even saying my idea is best. I’m saying that this is the time to try something big and bold and new, because we have every reason to try and no reason not to.