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The Feds would like you to think they want to help first-time buyers. The Liberals’ over-hyped and costly First-time Home Buyer Incentive is a case in point. “The First-time Home Buyer Incentive makes it easier for you to buy a home,” they say. What the government omits to mention is that it’s stood by and allowed the mortgage qualifying rate...

. If you want to pay less mortgage interest, it helps to have a cheaper home. If you want a cheaper home, it helps if there are more homes than people want to buy. Cue the Economics 101 reference. Yet, there are some who’d like us to believe that demand, not supply, is the problem. As if not having enough...