I certainly don't agree with that.
In fact, the presentation that I gave, as well as the work of the research, shows exactly the opposite, that financialization of housing is what is causing the housing crisis, and if we don't get behind it right now, as soon as possible and take measures to curb it, we are not going to be able to recover from this housing crisis.
This is an opportunity to address that. Housing is a human right, so, yes, financialization of housing is nothing new in Canada, but it is growing. You'll have an opportunity to ask the researchers more detailed questions around this.
That being said, when we're talking about supply, we need to talk about the right kind of supply, and financialized housing is not the right kind of supply. We need to have supply that is there to support the human right to housing—that's the progressive realization of it—by creating not just affordability but all the other six tenets of the definitions of the human right to housing, including habitability and security of tenure.
Financialization of housing is threatening all of those things.