text: I'm no big fan of the current federal governing party, but this affordability mess in the Lower Mainland (and in other parts of Canada) has been built out of policy decisions by successive governments at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels over a very long period of time.
  
  It's a tale of buck-passing coupled with fear of 1) speaking truth to an electorate that might punish you at the ballot box if you don't say what it wants to hear and 2) alienating your largest donors.
  
  Cowards, the lot of them.