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Vaughn Palmer: Weeks after half-baked condo announcement, government still mum on details

Opinion: Rather than clarifying details of the plan, Ottawa and Victoria have stood by idly as political furore grows

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VICTORIA —The federal and provincial plan to buy up unsold condos for first-time homeowners remains shrouded in mystery, denial and backtracking, three weeks after Premier David Eby and Prime Minister Mark Carney promised it.

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Nor is there any apparent rush to fill in the details of the half-baked scheme, judging from events this week.

In Ottawa on Tuesday, the federal Liberals on a parliamentary committee blocked a federal Conservative motion to summon........

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