This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Conrad Black, of the National Post,

about challenges for 2025, an election year for Canada. Housing. The immigration policy is successful,

and Conrad celebrates it. However, there hasn't been a comparable attempt to build housing for the new

people coming in legally. This has led to a spike

in prices for all workers in Canada and great unhappiness. Conrad explains how this comes about

and what is to be done. Here's Conrad Black on the housing crisis, not the immigration crisis,

the housing crisis in Canada.

More of this tonight.

So, you know, we're building our population, which I think is a sound policy, but they

haven't had housing policies in place that have avoided tremendous pressure on the cost of shelter for people of modest incomes.

We're just crowding more people by letting these immigrants in, which in principle I'm in favor of.

But what we should have done was use the tax system to incentivize housing construction

so that it didn't make accommodation for existing

lower income people in Canada sharply more expensive and that's what's happened and that more than

any other single thing is the reason that I think the country will hand the incumbent government a bus ticket

next year.