Claims government built fake homes for photo op misleading

In September, a public announcement of the Federal Government Agency for the Construction of Canadian houses caused positions on social networks applying for a fake construction site with fake houses, was used as a background for the press conference, and that the project budget for $ 13 billion would cost more than $ 3 million.

In fact, the builder of modular houses said that they are real and not intended for constant construction at the announcement. It is not clear how the entire budget of $ 13 billion will be spent, but it does not finance only 4,000 houses.

Requirement

Prime Minister Mark Karney participates in the announcement for the new Federal Agency to build Canada at home with the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure by Gregor Robertson in Ottawa, Sunday, September 14, 2025. Caivan Homes CEO said that the houses in the announcement were profiled building constructions, and this would not bring itself incorrectly understood as permanent housing. Canadian press/Justin Tan

When the Prime Minister announced the launch of the Federal Agency, which is aimed at raising housing construction, he did this against the backdrop of several modular houses of insufficient construction.

According to Prime Minister Mark Karney at a press conference at a press conference in Nepean, Build Canada Homes will oversee plans for the construction of 4,000 houses in six federal sections as part of its original budget of $ 13 billion.

On social networks, some users claimed that the government created a fake construction site with fake houses for announcement, because the modular houses were not completely completed and were removed from the site later.

“Mark Carney caught the creation of a fake construction site for“ announcement of housing ”,” says the video on YouTube on September 21 with about 109,000 views.

“It was supposed to look like a new housing development, and that it would be finished, people were going to switch to it after they ended, but then all this was demolished,” the video said.

Similar statements about the fake construction site, houses or employees appeared on Facebook, Tiktok and X -Platform, earlier Twitter.

Other positions argued that a budget of $ 13 billion amounted to about 3.2 million dollars. USA at home, which criticized construction costs.

Facts

The video from the announcement shows that Karni touched three modular houses built by Caivan Homes, but his comments from the press conference indicate that they were never intended for living.

“Two sets of houses behind me were made for two days assembled on the spot in one … We wanted to keep the Townhai open. We held the workers from the end of it so that you could see how everything is combined with each other, ”Karney said.

“The one who goes to Nunavut there,” he said about the third house.

Modular houses are produced at the factory, but installed on the spot. The modules belong to the sections of the house, which are built separately, and then moved to the foundation and collected.

The co -founder and CEO of Caivan Homes, Frank Cairo, said that the government turned to them with the intention of demonstrating the “production potential” of modular houses using prototypes.

“(Caivan) The prototype builds all our homes to mass production, and this is what happened in the place of Meriveil in Ottawa where the announcement occurred,” Cairo said in the Canadian press.

According to Cairo, the prototypes, which Karni toured during the announcement, are real houses, but this should not have been misunderstood as a constant place of housing development.

He said that one of the houses went to a family in Nunavut; Complex towhouses were disassembled and gathered in the project in East Ottava.