As one of those folks myself, thanks for thinking of us. The worst of it for me is our city is short on concrete workers & framers, they moved to Ontario in 2020 when things shut down. So now us downstream trades like sheetrock, electrical, & carpenters end up working part time, because projects are trickling out. I haven’t worked in 2 weeks. August is usually so busy I can’t even consider booking vacation. Now it’s dead.

So then we exit that job, move to another industry, and the entire building capacity has shrunk when we need it to grow. So at least pay us well, so we can survive this push-pull supply chain nonsense.

So a 1% annualized growth rate, while our growth from immigration is 3% a year (1.2M/40M). That’s a recession pretending to be growth, and they’re still raising interest rates.

As a construction worker who’s been working 1/3 time, or less due to housing slowing down, how are we supposed to sustain this influx of people without massive public housing projects? Without refunding the CMHC and actually building affordable housing, instead of “luxury condos” everywhere.