On Monday afternoon, the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is scheduled to visit Victoria and tour a rental apartment building. She’ll discuss the Trudeau government's economic plan to build more homes.
After that she has a meeting with Premier David Eby.
And Sunday it was Federal N-D-P Leader Jagmeet Singh in town talking housing He was in Esquimalt along with Maja Tait, Sooke's mayor and also the NDP candidate for Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke. where they called for a new federal fund that would help not-for-profit organizations buy housing and make sure it stays affordable for renters.
Singh pointed out this is something our province is already doing through the B-C's Rental Protection Fund. He’s calling for the same thing nationally.