Liberals, Conservatives in vote-rich GTA to pitch crime, housing policies

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 11:07 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The Conservative and Liberal campaigns are successful the vote-rich Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Thursday, promising Canadians policies that volition chopped taxes to marque homes much affordable and ace down connected crime. 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is opening the time successful Milton, Ont., wherever he's unveiling different plank of his party's program to tame the lodging situation by pledging to chopped improvement taxes connected caller location construction. 

For each dollar of improvement taxes cut, a recently elected Conservative authorities says it volition lucifer that magnitude to a maximum of $25,000 per home, for a full imaginable redeeming of $50,000. 

For example, if a municipality cuts improvement taxes connected a location by $35,000, it will person a "federal bonus" of $17,500. 

"We volition physique more, taxation less and get the authorities retired of the mode to prevention you tens of thousands of dollars," Poilievre said successful a video promoting the policy. 

The Conservative run says the outgo of the argumentation would total $1.56 cardinal per year. 

The Conservatives antecedently announced that their lodging program volition besides necessitate "municipalities to velocity up permits and escaped up onshore to let 15 per cent much location gathering per year," successful bid to get infrastructure wealth from the national government. 

A metropolis that lone increases the fig of homes built by 10 per cent successful a fixed twelvemonth would spot 5 per cent of its national infrastructure backing withheld oregon clawed back.

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Another plank of the Conservative lodging program that was announced March 25 is their pledge to region the GST from the acquisition of caller homes valued astatine up to $1.3 million. 

The enactment said cutting that taxation would prevention a homebuyer a maximum of astir $65,000 connected the acquisition of a caller home. People lone wage GST connected caller oregon substantially renovated homes.

The Conservatives accidental the GST measurement volition outgo betwixt $3.96 cardinal and $4.97 billion, and volition beryllium partially paid for with the $2.52 cardinal successful other gross they expect from the economical spinoffs of gathering 36,000 other homes each year. The remainder of the GST chopped volition beryllium paid for by cutting bureaucracy. 

Liberal Leader Mark Carney volition beryllium successful Brampton, Ont., aboriginal Thursday greeting wherever helium volition denote policies "regarding nationalist information and however to marque our streets safer," according to a spokesperson. 

Carney unveiled his party's lodging plan on March 31, promising to treble the fig of homes built annually successful Canada to astir 500,000.

To get there, Carney said helium would make an entity called Build Canada Homes (BCH) — a "lean, mission-driven organization" that would supply tens of billions successful financing for affordable lodging projects.

BCH volition proviso $25 cardinal successful indebtedness financing and $1 cardinal successful equity financing to "innovative Canadian prefabricated location builders."

A Liberal Party backgrounder explained that BCH volition besides contented bulk orders of lodging units from Canadian modular and prefabricated location builders successful bid "to make sustained demand."

BCH volition besides supply $10 cardinal successful low-cost financing and grants that it volition past funnel into antithetic affordable location gathering streams. 

A premix of grants and loans to the tune of $4 cardinal volition beryllium directed into long-term, fixed-rate financing for affordable homes. 

The different $6 cardinal successful grants volition beryllium earmarked for rapidly gathering "deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, Indigenous lodging and shelters."

About $2 cardinal of that $6 cardinal successful "deeply affordable" lodging wealth volition beryllium utilized to assistance physique lodging for students and seniors, successful concern with the provinces and territories.