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His tax haven indiscretions hoped long forgotten in our minimal attention span days, Liberal Minister of Finance Bill Morneau is now crowing about the booming conomy he and his colleagues have created. In a recent public report on this positive turn of events, one lost, we note, on the homeless attending our recent visit with the Peel Poverty Action Group at  the Knight's Table food bank in Brampton, Morneau cited as evidence of his team's success that housing prices were increasing, meaning high demand.
It takes a special kind of unawareness to ignore the fact that higher demand means higher prices and higher prices mean less  affordability, that is fewer people with roofs over their heads at night, aka more poverty, but Morneau has often shown us his special gifts in this area. His glutinous smile and unctious ways need no words to depict the mental planet where Morneau lives. And it aint the unaffordable downtown where many of his constituents have to live.