So I haven't gone line by line on the housing policies of the Liberals and Conservatives BUT, as someone who knows a TONNE about housing I call bullshit right off the top on the Conservative policy...
From their costed platform:
A new Conservative government will build 2.3 million homes over the next five years.
Over the past 5 years there have been about 1.25m housing starts (not the same as completions which is trailing data) so the Cons are proposing that they can increase new builds by 80% over their term which means they'd need to DOUBLE the number of new builds by the 3rd year of their term to meet this goal. Anyone who knows anything about housing knows this isn't vaguely achievable even with perfect conditions - we lack the trades, we lack the materials, we lack the zoning, and we lack the financing to do it. It's a total joke to make this kind of claim.
And this is before we evaluate each of the proposed policies to achieve this goal - I'll dig into detail for them and the Libs later but the top line is that the proposed plan from Cons won't work, it'd be lucky to generate slightly more housing (like maybe 100,000 more units over 5 years).
Data:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=3410012601