Much easier for politicians to feather their own nests through cosy relationships with large corporate donors than to address the real underlying problem with Canadian housing: generationally stagnant incomes. Better to pop the real estate bubble, punish the uppity middle class and, in so doing, create more favourable labour conditions -- all the while enjoy only the finest canapés at invitation-only party sponsored events. Canadian real estate is now threat "du jour" to the corporate welfare polity. And this must end.