Our Tsuut’ina neighbours are providing a better example of what it will take to solve this country’s desperate housing shortage than anything Mark Carney and his Liberal government have so far shown.

That’s because they have a solid plan to build thousands of homes on expanded reserve land, which takes in some exquisite countryside, situated on the edge of the foothills, facing the majestic Rocky Mountains.

And they’ve financial skin in the game. If the recently announced partnership with a Calgary developer falls flat, it isn’t Canadian taxpayers on the hook. That’s why it’ll likely succeed.

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Meanwhile, Carney, who pledged during last year’s federal election that his government would build homes faster than at any time since the Second World War, increasingly seems like a character exposed by that old Western put-down: all hat, no cattle.

The Grits promised half a million new homes would arise across the country every year. This would solve a crisis of their own making, when opening wide the doors to rampant........

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