I want to build so much we need to train and hire more workers

We've all seen them. Decrepit, overgrown rat haven pieces of land with a for sale sign on it forever. Pieces of land nobody is using and are sitting dormant are a blight and wasted opportunity. Someone or some entity privately owns that land and I want to raise taxes on those pieces of land and raise them so high that they intentionally never get paid, instead I want them to either build something useful on that land, like housing, business or parks, or sell the land to someone who will do something with it, including the city. Hoarding land in a housing crisis is blatantly market manipulation in favor of the land owners and it's past time we stopped treating the capital owners with kid gloves.

When in recession conditions the best way for a government to ride it out is spending on itself to keep people employed. Lots of well paid workers building and renovating a city will lead to new businesses opening and existing businesses thriving to meet the needs of these workers, all of which sends taxes back up to the city. More housing built means more people moving in to fill them and more businesses opening to meet market needs. More office space means more service work. More industrial space means outside manufacturing investment.

When he dies or is forced out of office then the tariffs will soon follow, and we need to be in a position to pick up on all the international business opportunities that are waiting for those tariffs to end. Until that time comes, we need to buy Canadian, sell Canadian, and if we have to, sell American.