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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to Metro Vancouver last week expressing concern about how runaway housing prices have made the city “inhospitable” to average people.

But beyond acting empathetic and promising to study the affordability crisis, Trudeau, who has been an elected politician for eight years, acted bewildered about what to do to cool the boiling markets in Metro Vancouver and Toronto.

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It’s worrisome Trudeau, as well B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Housing Minister Rich Coleman, are acting blind to the housing regulations in place in most countries, all of which restrict foreign speculation and related causes of house-price mania.

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Trudeau even suggested the crises in Metro Vancouver and Toronto are a “

But he should know the two metropolises contain almost 9 million people, one-quarter of Canada’s population.

While governments have to avoid creating nationwide policies that will hurt regions not hit by a mass influx of foreign money and wealthy immigrants, Trudeau made another remark suggesting he’s getting bad advice.