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Michael Higgins: Carney continues to blame Trump for problems the Liberals created
The fact that many young Canadians can't afford to buy a home or pay for groceries without racking up debt has nothing to do with the trade war
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Young Canadians have never had it so bad in this country, and yet you wouldn’t know it if you listened to the prime minister’s cozy “fireside chat” on Sunday.
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It was Prime Minister Mark Carney who should have done the listening, particularly to his House of Commons finance committee, which a day after his “we are all in this together” platitudes revealed that younger Canadians are increasingly out of it altogether.
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Witnesses before the committee painted a picture of cities where young Canadians’ dreams of owning a home are never going to be realized; where a “K” economy has one arm with older people growing ever more prosperous and the other full of younger people stagnating; where the average age of first-time home-buyers in Canada is now 40; and where impecunious Canadians are taking on debt to buy groceries.
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