Whenever government meddles in the market, particularly this incompetent Ontario Liberal government, it turns into a fiasco and a myriad of untended consequences result.

Rent controls don't increase housing availability.  A vacancy tax will be thwarted with "straw" occupiers and "foreign speculators" will circumvent the system with "straw purchasers" - usually foreign students, as are being used now.

Some will argue that doing something is better than doing nothing.  Not in the case of these Liberals or the leftists at Toronto city hall.  They couldn't run a lemonade stand without driving it into debt and/or insolvency.

This is just another Liberal financial misadventure looking for a place to happen.