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And now Trudeau appears set to copy another Harper strategy. Bill Morneau, the finance minister,toldan audience in Aurora, Ont., on Jan. 22 that he wants to do something to make housing more affordable for millennials,according to a report by the Canadian Press.

Vintage Harper! Three weeks before Election Day in 2015, hepromisedto add 700,000 new homeowners, essentially by increasing the maximum amount first-time buyers could borrow from their Registered Retirement Savings Plans by $10,000.

It was a bad idea that would have put more upward pressure on real-estate prices and encouraged even more households to take on more debt than they could afford. Yet the anti-Harper government appears to want to do something similar.

“I’m all for initiatives that help young people afford homes, but things like this make me skeptical that it’ll actually make a difference or outright fearful,” Francis Fong, chief economist at Chartered Professional Accountants Canada,saidin one of 19 consecutive tweets on why it’s generally a bad idea to create incentives to borrow when none are needed.

Morneau didn’t elaborate on what he might do to assuage millennial angst over how all the best addresses in Vancouver and Toronto are being grabbed at exorbitant prices by data scientists, bankers and global plutocrats. Because make no mistake, those are the millennials that have his attention; home prices in places such as Moncton, Winnipeg and Edmonton are no more out of reach than they ever have been, according to various surveys of housing affordability.