Ontario quietly signs new affordable housing deal with feds

OTTAWA — Conservatives will be supporting the Liberal government’s internal trade and major projects bill that is expected to be passed before Canada Day, revealed Leo Housakos, the leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Housakos confirmed the news as he was questioning Minister of Transport and Internal Trade Chrystia Freeland during a pre-study of the bill on Monday afternoon. “Obviously, the Conservative opposition in the House (of Commons) supports this bill, as the opposition does in this chamber,” he said, before criticizing current Liberals who were in his party’s view a “...