The issue of affordability is front-and-centre in recent elections. But I rarely see some important aspects of this issue discussed in the mainstream media. This article discusses some of these. https://billhulet.substack.com/p/what-effect-does-the-service-economy
Change the education system, every large high school should offer 1 free extra year of nursing or auto mechanics for students that aren’t going to University. With a high unemployment rate for youth, it would be a good program, high school already exist so not much more in cost. Something has gone wrong with the college system.
Québec’s CEGEP system is basically this and deserves emulating across the rest of the country.