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Housing has now become the PM’s latest expertise. He has declared ‘their plan’ to solve the housing crises. With no background in the housing industry, his Party has outlined steps they intend to take to accomplish ‘his plan’. Canadians have been building, buying, selling and renting homes for years without direction from the federal government. Their role is to assist Canadians’ needs, not tell us how to accomplish it. 

His plan reflects inexperience by demanding affordable housing for home purchasers and renters to the tune of four million homes by 2031. This is impossible! To propose such a number despite the fact Canada currently only has the capacity to build 1.6 million homes in that same timeframe represents an expected 150% increase in capacity.  

Their plan for accomplishing affordability is to bring down the cost of homebuilding by making it easier to manufacture homes, a concept that has been around for years. They are called ‘mobile homes’. Unless he is referring to the 1926 Sears Roebuck catalogue when an entire home comes via train along with assembly instructions. His plans include: 

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Shane Wenzel

Shane is the President & CEO of the Shane Homes Group of Companies and the namesake. Shane's responsibilities include strategic direction for the companies, policy advice for the building industry through BILD Calgary, and political involvement through the Alberta Enterprise Group on the economy, making him an industry leader in his field. Shane's sales and marketing background comes from growing up with two entrepreneurial parents, Cal and Edith, and participating in a business advisory group. On the personal side, Shane considers himself a bit of a "tech junky" and social media influencer on various platforms. He's also proudly apart of the LGBTQ community.