There comes a point in every nation’s life when the distance between its ideals and its reality becomes too wide to ignore. Canada stands perilously close to that point. The rhetoric remains strong—compassion, inclusion, sustainability—but the policies beneath those words are eroding the foundations that make prosperity, opportunity, and belonging possible in the first place. The great irony is this: Canada will not need a “housing accelerator fund” if it continues to decelerate its own economy. Fewer people will want to come, and more of its best will quietly go. The issue is not whether we can build enough homes, but whether we can sustain the kind of country people still want to live in.