(Quebec) Québec solidaire (QS) targets owners who want to obtain the highest price for the sale of their house.
The left-wing party proposed a motion on Wednesday to end the blind bidding system, which allows the seller to choose the best offer.
QS therefore demands that the disclosure of simultaneous promises to purchase on the same property be made mandatory.
According to QS co-spokesperson, Émilise Lessard-Therrien, this is an issue of access to property that people talk about a lot in the party.
People hesitate between two cans of peas at the supermarket to save a few pennies, but must decide to add tens of thousands of dollars in bidding war on a house without knowing the value of the competing offers, she imagined.
This system has a direct impact on the housing crisis, in the eyes of Mme Lessard-Therrien.
Remember that a motion is an order of the House, but it does not bind the government