James Moore

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3,438 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts Conversation Encore Episode -- Is Affordability An Issue That Governments Can Even Solve? · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

And in but i in my in my view it is.

There there are market forces here that are working and and Canadians are they're up off their backsides in the sense that they're engaged politically in a way that in the past people were quite passive aggressive about it.

Now it's a dominant conversation.

It's like you there people are staring politicians in the face and saying, What are you gonna do about this?

And they're actually demanding really specific things and they want to

Because they want to counterbalance the pressures of their kids being able to get into the world and not be depressed about this w wall of debt that they would have to absorb and actually get become upwardly mobile and get out of their houses and have positive, constructive lives where they accumulate assets and build wealth and build a life for themselves, build independence and all that.

But on the other hand, they have to of course counterpressure that with, however, my house that I bought for for $850, that's never

Now apparently worth 1.7.

I don't want that to crater down to 1.2 because that vector of 500 grand is kind of important to me in the next 10 years as I make a decision about my capacity to downsize.

And so the ability of politicians to balance that.

So coming full circle, Peter, to your question then, right?

Is can governments do stuff about this?

Yes and no.

You can do stuff that that is conducive and responsible and effective.

And I think some of those things are happening mostly with the consent of the public.

Because they they see the the balancing act on those two points that need to happen.

And I think that they are happening.

And you can't overreach and get it wrong.

So can politicians do things in the short term that sound really good?

Yeah, you can propose a 50-year mortgage like Donald Trump proposed to do in the United States.

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