Governments will want to throw money at the affordability crisis. What they should do instead is reduce taxes and other costs they impose on business

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Pierre Poilievre told the CBC’s Rosemary Barton over the weekend that “Affordability! Affordability! Affordability!”, the Conservatives’ new mantra, is what will unite the party behind his leadership. In her own version of an affordability crisis, Ms. Barton couldn’t afford him the benefit of the doubt, concluding her report on the interview by saying that if one more floor-crossing Conservative MP gives Mark Carney a majority government, then “it would be very difficult to make the case the leader should stay.” So it’s pretty much unanimous among CBC commentators: if Mr. Poilievre doesn’t soon start behaving the way CBC commentators believe opposition leaders should behave, he’s gone.

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