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While fossil fuels, vaccine passports, and development in Huntsville were among the topics discussed at a remote meeting of the Rotary Club of Huntsville held last Wednesday with guest speaker Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison, the need for more housing in the community was front and centre.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aitchison was asked for his opinion on what is driving the housing shortage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said there are multiple factors. One of the main issues he attributed to driving the shortage here is people leaving cities and coming to the area. While in larger urban centres in Canada, such as Toronto and Vancouver, it\u2019s foreign investment that’s driving the shortage and increasing the cost of housing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur real estate market is red hot,” said Aitchison. “It continues to grow because global players see it as a great investment market and so that is actually helping to drive prices up in the larger urban centres\u2026 and of course our proximity to Toronto means that people are escaping there and coming here and that\u2019s having a major impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Measures have been announced such as a tax on non-resident homeowners or investors to make sure they\u2019re not just buying and speculating and driving up costs, but they are not making a big enough impact. Aitchison said the rise in the cost of building materials is also driving up cost and in Muskoka, the growing income disparity between those who have moved here due to the pandemic, those who vacation here, and those who live and work here is increasing and making it difficult for year-round residents to buy and rent in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there’s the Residential Tenancies Act. Landlords complain that the odds are increasingly against them. \u201cI think a lot of folks that maybe would\u2019ve considered renting, you know, a duplex or investing in that way, frustrations with the landlord and tenant act, it\u2019s a problem. You know people are not prepared to lose money if they have a bad tenant, it\u2019s hard to stomach that. So there\u2019s a lot of factors,\u201d said Aitchison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As rumours of an election loom, Aitchison told Rotarians the Conservative Party would \u201chave some pretty significant policy proposals for Canadians to help address this housing crisis,\u201d although he did not elaborate on what those proposals would be.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversations about the housing shortage continued. One Rotarian suggested that resorts should provide housing for staff and went as far as saying that perhaps there could be a subsidy \u201cto help major resorts do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aitchison noted that some business owners in the area, although they are not in the housing market, have taken it upon themselves to buy rental housing in order to house their employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLarry Greenwood, who owns the, I\u2019m sure you all know, owns all the Tim Hortons in the area, I was chatting with him the other day. I think he said he has about 16 rental units now. He\u2019s not in the rental business. He\u2019s in the coffee-selling business but he needs these units because I mean nobody here wants to work and if you allow me just a hint of partisanship, I think the CERB (Canada Emergency Response Benefit) is a bit of a problem. It continues to leave kids at home, choosing not to work if they don\u2019t have to\u2026and I\u2019ve seen it all over the country the last couple of months, there is help wanted signs everywhere, so\u2026 they\u2019re bringing people into the country that they can get to work but then they need to give them a place to live because there\u2019s no places to live.\u201d He said finding a way to support those businesses in that effort, \u201cI think that\u2019s a very smart investment of public funds to incentivize the private sector to get the job done.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aitchison added that an all-hands-on-deck approach is required to address the issue, much like in the 1950s. \u201cWe need a federal government that is prepared to focus on this as an absolute top priority, not as something where they sort of dribble out some money to provinces here and there and hope that somebody else takes care of the problem,\u201d he said, adding that while it affects some areas more than others, it\u2019s a crisis across the nation. \u201cWe need a new C.D. Howe, we need that kind of leadership in government, again.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompted by a question regarding the extent of housing development in the area, Aitchison said within Huntsville\u2019s urban service boundary there are approximately 3,000 draft approved development lots within subdivisions, many of which have had planning approvals for decades. \u201cBut they\u2019re starting to get built now and you go to the north end of Town there, you\u2019ll see where Andy Kidd\u2026 they\u2019re expanding, they\u2019re building as fast as they can because of course, the demand is so high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as the rural area goes, Aitchison, in speaking to his experience as former Huntsville mayor, said it is a lot tougher to find a rural lot these days. \u201cAnd I\u2019m partly to blame for that. One of the things that we did in one of our iterations of the Official Plan was that we doubled the minimum requirements to sever a lot and create a lot in the rural area. We did it because of course, we wanted to make sure the rural area remained as rural as possible so that these, you know, rural houses were a little further apart,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s had a major impact on the ability of people to build and get lots, there continues to be lots of severances that happen throughout Huntsville. In fact, for the longest time, the majority of Huntsville\u2019s growth was actually in the rural area, not in the urban area. That has shifted now\u2026 most of the growth is now in the urban area which has taken some of the pressure off the rural area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aitchison said those subdivisions need to be built in order to help provide more housing. \u201cWe need to get shovels in the ground on a lot of these subdivisions and of course the developers are hungry, they\u2019re eager to go because it\u2019s very widely known that Huntsville is absolutely on fire and it\u2019s the place to go make money and build,\u201d he said. \u201cSo there is more coming for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was also asked about vaccine passports, to which Aitchison said \u201cright now I would suggest certainly in the short-term the concept of vaccine passports will probably be real if you\u2019re travelling between countries. I actually don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to happen to travel within Canada. That\u2019s my guess and I think that that\u2019s probably fairly reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aitchison was also asked about the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline built in 1953, which opponents warn is old and unsafe and could cause catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes and the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac, which connects Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. While the issue is currently before the courts, Aitchison spoke about fossil fuels in general. \u201cYou know there\u2019s no question we need to be transitioning away from fossil fuels but it\u2019s not happening overnight, and we continue to use the product while we have to. We can\u2019t literally completely plunge the country into darkness, you know, while we deal with that issue, so I think we\u2019ll be alright in the end.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of Line 5, Aitchison said: “There\u2019s a part of me that feels like it probably should\u2019ve been addressed earlier rather than sort of at the 11th<\/sup> hour, but I know that there was a lot of work going on behind the scenes on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not getting much airtime now I guess largely because it is in arbitration\u2026 in our own company, I\u2019ve said to a number of Alberta members who are of course particularly excited about it, I said \u2018you know what you should do one day,\u2019 I said \u2018Alberta should just decide to shut the tap off, just shut it off for a week and see how quickly the people who say we need to stop using fossil fuels right now, and see how quickly they kind of realize \u2018oh, I guess maybe we need to make the transition faster but we still need to use it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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