The Liberal cabinet will hear today from the authors of a recent report that pitched the federal government a strategy to get more rental units built — recommendations the housing minister isn’t ruling out as policy options.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his new cabinet are meeting in Charlottetown to regroup ahead of the fall session of Parliament and to find new ways to address mounting economic anxieties.
Tuesday, the second day of the retreat, will see the ministers meet with outside experts to discuss how to tackle the shortage of housing and the problems facing younger Canadians — whose votes helped Trudeau form his first government in 2015.
During one
