Article: Where Ottawa West-Nepean Candidates stand on housing, public service, crime, and more

NDP candidate Josh Bizjak, Liberal candidate Anita Vandenbeld, and Green Party candidate Prashanta Dhakal have portrait cut-outs all in black and white, imposed over a green textured background.

The Ottawa Citizen has compiled questions and responses from readers in and candidates for Ottawa West-Nepean. Prashanta’s responses have been included in the article. Please read below.

We do have issues with not being able to build homes quickly enough. We have regulatory hurdles and we have policies that make a lot of mom-and-pop landlords not want to be landlords. That’s part of the problem, but a bigger part of the problem was that our population growth grew too quickly. And it was completely in our hands because that population growth came from immigration. Immigration is good. I’m a first-generation immigrant myself, but it has to be controlled. It has to be at a sustainable level.

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