Immigration is fine but we need to invest in rail and put them in the unpopulated parts. Build out new cities rather than cramming everyone in an ever expanding 1 family per home circle around a city
So i work with a lot of immigrants and there is already a system like that in place. The problem is you can just pay a fee/fine and move wherever you want instead. Close that loophole and see how it works as designed
I hear you decrying suburban sprawl, but then you want to sprawl into new areas; areas we need for our rapidly dwindling agricultural and green space. Canada seems to be the only forest nation not criticized for razing its forest for bungalow space.
How about we densify what we have and reel back some of this obscene sprawl with its hoarded greenspace that can be better used growing things or for simple oxygen exchange?
And aside from needing farmland, you need it nearby
By creating more hubs you have more space for farmland, forests, and wetlands
You aren’t going to be able to sprawl back, that’s why you create the densified hubs then move people there. Once the suburbs are empty you will see receding
As a European the suburbs in Canada shock me. My wife and some family are from/in Gatineau and it’s just an endless wasteland of single family homes with a Costco in the middle, crazy stuff.
Immigration is fine but we need to invest in rail and put them in the unpopulated parts. Build out new cities rather than cramming everyone in an ever expanding 1 family per home circle around a city
So i work with a lot of immigrants and there is already a system like that in place. The problem is you can just pay a fee/fine and move wherever you want instead. Close that loophole and see how it works as designed
We aren’t building up new hubs though so it’s not going to work well
In Ontario for instance; Ford took a bunch of infrastructure money from Northern Ontario and moved it to Toronto
I hear you decrying suburban sprawl, but then you want to sprawl into new areas; areas we need for our rapidly dwindling agricultural and green space. Canada seems to be the only forest nation not criticized for razing its forest for bungalow space.
How about we densify what we have and reel back some of this obscene sprawl with its hoarded greenspace that can be better used growing things or for simple oxygen exchange?
Cities are different than suburbs
And aside from needing farmland, you need it nearby
By creating more hubs you have more space for farmland, forests, and wetlands
You aren’t going to be able to sprawl back, that’s why you create the densified hubs then move people there. Once the suburbs are empty you will see receding
As a European the suburbs in Canada shock me. My wife and some family are from/in Gatineau and it’s just an endless wasteland of single family homes with a Costco in the middle, crazy stuff.