Home prices, rent, the cost of medicine, cell phone bills, child care, tuition . . . all of these things have been going up while our wages have stayed the same. 

Affordability has been a big topic of conversation this campaign, but it would be impossible to tackle all of the pledges that have been made. Instead, we’re going to focus on a few key things: housing, taxes, and education.

Host Tamara Khandaker is joined first by Mike Colledge, president of Ipsos Public Affairs Canada to walk through the numbers. Then she talks to Global’s money and consumer reporter Erica Alini on what the parties are promising.

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