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GenSqueeze's Paul Kershaw tells the hard truth about Canada's housing crisis: "To restore affordability for all, we need home prices to minimally stall or fall, so that earnings have a chance to catch up... 70% of Canadians support this." It's time to tax land, not paycheques.
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