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Ten months after the Federal election, there are still only 231 MPs who have finished their conflict of interest disclosures. Nonetheless, we believe that it is important to publish the percentage of those who are landlords, their assets, and to provide the public with the necessary information.
Of those who have provided their disclosures, we see that the numbers have barely changed since the 2021 election.
There were more people in 2021 who were landlords, but that was with the entire body of 338 MPs submitting their conflict of interest disclosures. When the final 112 finish their work, or more likely when the Ethics Commissioner finishes publishing the disclosures submitted, it is likely to be a similar number of MPs who are landlords. Here are the numbers from the 2021 election.
We have broken down these numbers by province and party as well.
What’s more interesting to us this time is their assets. We are developing better tools to identify assets, donors, and lobbying, but it will not be ready for a long time. We are also working with the Investigative Journalism Foundation on a comprehensive analysis of these assets, due to be out in April.
Aedan has been at work with all of this information. The full database is updated, although the flags are not perfectly set. Please feel free to peruse the database. We have also created a table for you to search that we could embed on this website.
Here are all of the 112 MPs who have not filled their disclosure yet.
For every person who’s MP has not fulfilled their conflict of interest disclosures, we encourage you to go over to Our Commons and email your MP. Be polite, and ask them if they would get it done, as it is important to our democratic security. Do not be harsh, and treat them with respect. They have to deal with people like Isaac hounding them every day.
*Editor’s note: We believe that they have been working hard to get the disclosures online because the two of us are emailing them so much. It might seem prideful to take credit, but we’ve decided that this is thanks to us.
We will not be performing a comprehensive analysis based on these numbers because they are not complete. We also are unable to predict how the rest of the numbers will be with only ⅔ of the data available.
A preliminary analysis would indicate that there should be some concern. The movement of the Liberal government towards the center has proven to be somewhat discouraging, specifically when people like Gregor Robertson are claiming that it is not the cost of housing that is the problem, it is the supply. We know this to be untrue. It is the cost. Despite significantly less immigration, increasing supply, and a variety of other factors changing, the cost of housing is still rising. Landlords are working hard to prevent their housing prices from going down. Many landlords are so unwilling to bring their prices down that they’ll offer gift cards for hundreds of dollars, but will not decrease the price. Rental prices are rising at an alarming rate, and even traditional hubs of affordability are doing poorly, such as Quebec.
Sadly for around 90 per cent of the country, housing prices will not be decreasing any time soon unless there is mass government intervention, or unless there is a major recession that causes the economy to reset– something that will likely happen sooner or later, despite the government doing everything it can to prevent it.
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