🇨🇦 Carney Phones Astronauts While His $13 Billion Housing Plan Stays Earthbound

Prime Minister Mark Carney called the Artemis II crew to praise their teamwork and describe the moon mission as a unique example of what collaboration can achieve. The call was celebrated as a feel-good diplomatic moment. Meanwhile his government's $13 billion housing plan has not produced 500,000 homes. 24 Sussex sits rotting two kilometres from Parliament Hill. A decade of Liberal governance has left Canada with the worst housing affordability in the G7, a healthcare system in structural crisis, and a productivity gap that economists describe as an emergency.

But Carney called the astronauts. He talked about inspiration. He used the word collaboration. This is the governing style of a man more comfortable with Davos panel optics than with the grinding administrative work of fixing a country. Every photo opportunity with a space crew is a minute not spent explaining why Ottawa cannot make a single binding decision about one heritage building it has owned since 1946. The stars are inspiring. The governance is not.

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