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To build a better housing market, stop taxing housing like cigarettes

  • The first thing governments need to do, collectively, is address the fact that housing is taxed at double the rate of the rest of
Opinion | BY MARK KENNEY | July 25, 2025
Housing
Housing
Grand old row houses pictured along Queen Elizabeth Drive in Ottawa. Canada’s new housing minister has an opportunity to challenge the provinces to get tough on housing taxes, and make lowering them a condition for federal funding of local infrastructure, writes Mark Kenney. The Hill Times photograph by Kate Malloy

To build a better housing market, stop taxing housing like cigarettes

Opinion | BY MARK KENNEY | July 25, 2025
  • The first thing governments need to do, collectively, is address the fact that housing is taxed at double the rate of the rest of

To build a better housing market, stop taxing housing like cigarettes

Opinion | BY MARK KENNEY | July 25, 2025
  • The first thing governments need to do, collectively, is address the fact that housing is taxed at double the rate of the rest of
Housing
Grand old row houses pictured along Queen Elizabeth Drive in Ottawa. Canada’s new housing minister has an opportunity to challenge the provinces to get tough on housing taxes, and make lowering them a condition for federal funding of local infrastructure, writes Mark Kenney. The Hill Times photograph by Kate Malloy
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