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Former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt says she believes that voters such as those who previously elected her in the suburban Greater Toronto Area increasingly share all three of the task force’s priorities: affordability, resilience and emissions reduction.The Canadian Press
After a summer in which both Canada’s housing shortage and the mounting effects of climate change on the country’s communities came into sharp focus, a new non-governmental task force will call for governments at all levels to address the two crises in tandem.
The group, known as the Task Force for Housing and Climate, will launch on Tuesday and be co-chaired by former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt and former Edmonton mayor Don Iveson. Backed by the Clean Economy Fund, a charitable foundation, the task force will put forward ways of accelerating construction of…
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