Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is asking the House of Commons ethics committee to hold an “urgent meeting” to investigate the federal government’s plan to buy vacant condos in British Columbia.
Ottawa and B.C. recently announced a proposal to finance the acquisition and conversion of more than 2,200 vacant unsold condo units into affordable housing. Conservatives have said the plan amounts to a bailout for condo developers, and raised questions about who initially asked for the policy.
“Forcing homebuyers to compete with their own tax dollars to raise prices for the benefit of developers is not in the interest of Canadians,” Poilievre wrote in the June 26 letter to the committee’s chair, Tory MP John Brassard. “Conservatives will get to the bottom of who is benefiting from this bailout.”…