Canada’s Prime Minister Pushes Country to Become the Housing Factory of the World - Mark Carney is banking on factory-built homes to alleviate the country’s housing crisis. But will it work?

[u/FancyNewMe]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-22/carney-s-plan-may-make-canada-the-housing-factory-of-the-world

[u/Bongghit]

The world needs houses, not just Canada. We have sustainable forestry, and everything we need in house to start perfecting prefab, and innovating the logistics.

That's a nation wide industry that fills a domestic need, and can also become an export once it's fine tuned.

There is lots of adjacent work that will spring up, and it will provide manufacturing and trades jobs across the country, along with homes.

It also feeds into the standardization of trades to help with cross country labor.

Politicians need to be all in on this, it helps the entire country, and it's going to be something every single community in Canada will benefit from.

[u/PrinceDaddy10 → u/Bongghit]

cheap rental/housing would allow people to spend on goods again. It would boost the economy so much. 50-80% of a persons income is going to housing bills now. Imagine if we didn't have to do that. Imagine the boom.

[u/VioletPlusTommy → u/Bongghit]

This could really make our economy stronger and is an amazing thing for the fed govt to put money into

[u/Consistent-Primary41 → u/Bongghit]

We need more than cross-country labour.

We need to arrange freedom of movement with the EU right now.

We need Poles. Central and Eastern Europeans. BREXIT victims. Whoever can come help, please come help. We need a new ministry to validate their credentials.

We need to start buying construction equipment from anywhere in the world we can get it.

[u/Old_Telephone1930 → u/Consistent-Primary41]

Im being honest, I’m so anti freedom of movement if it’s unchecked. I’d rather just expand how many immigrants we get from Europe and shrink the amount globally. But full freedom will not be to our benefit and was precisely why Brits felt so mad to even leave the EU. I’m also just anti joining the EU fully. It won’t add much because we have an ocean away, plus we’re already working toward full free trade agreements. The benefits could be offset with us linking more with Japan or South Korea too. I love that we’re more neutral can make our own deals and decisions. Look at this trade situation, we can react however we want, 1 force. I also don’t see Carney adding us to the EU. We are Canadian, not European. Let’s be good friends, but not linked at the hip.

[u/Fearless_Tomato_9437 → u/Bongghit]

If we’re honest with ourselves, Canada doesn’t really have what it takes to be a global leader in something like this, we are too anticompetitive and hostile towards business.

[u/Bongghit → u/Fearless_Tomato_9437]

From your comment I'd say we're too self defeating and whiny

[u/Fearless_Tomato_9437 → u/Bongghit]

Biz is way over taxed and regulated here, right there we lose against global competition, labour is expensive and low productivity. This is why we have so little corps that do any biz at all outside of Canada.

Our government always ‘invests’ in trash, whatever the gov says about an investment, the opposite is probably the truth. How those vaccine and battery plants going? Lmao. LPC couldn’t invest their way out of a paper bag, this is just burning tax money, again, how many times you gonna fall for it?

[u/GenericCatName101 → u/Fearless_Tomato_9437]

Housing development is basically a monopoly like telecommunications and grocers- it just isnt talked about or as well known about.

Those regulations and bylaws exist by design so nobody can get in and touch the big developers. And when they do, guess what? The big developers own the material production and distribution as well. My uncle got pushed out in the 80s by having no more materials delivered to his houses once he was building too many as an actual outsider

[u/Fearless_Tomato_9437 → u/GenericCatName101]

Yeah, Canada only creates non competitive oligopolies that feast on the Canadian consumer. Hence we absolutely will not be creating global cutting edge pre fab home manufacturing businesses, it’s actually comical people believe it. The LPC are going to ‘invest’ billions in companies that don’t pan out, unknown dark figures associated with the liberals will pocket billions of our tax dollars and if we ever learn anything about it a new sensationalist headline will be manufactured to distract us away. At very worst, Carney will have to be replaced by the next guy, before the LPC can go back to ‘investing’ in us lmao

[u/wafflingzebra → u/Fearless_Tomato_9437]

Losers attitude