In federal budget, Ottawa looks to Canada Post land for building housing supply

The federal government is eyeing underutilized Canada Post and National Defence properties as a way to deliver affordability and supply to the country's housing market.

The Liberals' fiscal plan mentions at least six times that housing should be designed for Canadians to live in rather than serving as a speculative asset.

It aims to make the cost of renting or owning a home more accessible by creating a supply of 3.87 million new homes by 2031.

That would add two million more homes to the 1.87 million the country was already on track to build.