I mean, they’re absolutely right, but this has big pot-calling-kettle-black energy: the LPC had control of the housing file since 2015 and pretty much sat on their hands during the worst affordability crisis in, well, ever.
Neither party is philosophically equipped to do what needs to be done (tax the wealthy, directly build public housing at scale, use punitive tax measures to prevent speculation, ensure services are available before bringing in immigrants en masse) because both parties are absolutely committed to neoliberal orthodoxy, and neither is willing to stop the money train.
- Milhouse calls hair guy bad
- Hair guy shows the receipts
- #bothSides
- Why switch then, just to get a bag of other really cruel, bad ideas as well with no improvement to housing?
Maybe some of us want some rights left by 2030. People don’t seem to realize how fascist the liberal leaders are, just look at all their legislation. If the truly far right ever get in charge, these clowns have already done the preliminary work.
I mean, you’re right. It’s just unfortunate that the choice is between milquetoast neoliberalism and proto-fascist neoliberalism.
Nah. Trudeau talks milquetoast liberalism, passes proto-fascist legislation. The choice is that or good old asshole conservatives.
Fucking hell.
I’ve never had a federal ballot with less than 4 choices.
As long as people are convinced that there’s only 2 choices. Conservatives and Liberals politicians will remain winner and Canadian will be losers.
This is the answer. Start voting small IT’S NOT A WASTED VOTE.
The people who literally caused it are claiming he doesn’t care? huh.
Housing costs have been going up dramatically since the early-90’s. Having said that, Trudeau’s done sweet fuck all to fix it in the last 8+ years, but the guy before him did fuck all to improve housing affordability in the 11+ years prior… In fact, it’s been like this for nearly 30 years… Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien BOTH pulled funding on housing.
So, fuck all politicians, fuck our electoral system, and especially fuck Trudeau for bathing in the applause of thousands of voters after stating that 2015’s election would be the last under First-Past-The-Post.
I don’t recall any other party importing more than the population of Saskatchewan in 18 months, during a pre-existing housing crisis though. It has not been like this for 30 years, it’s been like this for 3. Sure things were rough if you chose to live in Vancouver. Now it’s rough all over and people with any option are now choosing not to live in Canada at all.
Psst, it’s not just Canada, it most Western countries except like Japan. Just look at how bad the states is getting too. And the housing would be going up with or without immigration.
The states is really only getting bad in the major centers, and even in some of them, Miami looks cheap to me and I live in fucking Saskatchewan. Devaluing the currency to send everyone money in the mail was not a sound plan, said it before, said it during, now we are literally in the “We fucking told you” stage. Now what does Japan not allow much of again?
I know youre being facetious, so I’ll answer that for you, housing as an investment and over regulation on housing density.
I’m not so stfu. Housing is allowed as an investment there, the conditions just aren’t conducive to it being profitable. it’s because of a low birth rate (Canada has had that the last decades) and low immigration. We almost had the problem solved and they opened the floodgates because these fucks don’t think Canada is a real country anyways. Well, they’ve convinced me, fuck this shitty excuse for a government and fuck immigration, fuck the east and fuck you too.
Fuck you too buddy, fuck you.
Every western nation knows that the post-9/11 low-interest moneygasm is coming to an end, and that immigration is the only way to keep the party going.
They’re all to chickenshit to ask the rich to pay their fair share, and brown people make easy scapegoats anyways, so why not?
