Canada will change how it counts non-permanent residents, the main statistics agency said on Thursday, after an economist said the current methodology may have overlooked about a million foreign students, workers and others.

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      1 year ago

      I love reading comments like these.

      Yes, let’s turn an entire country’s housing stock into the projects.

      There’s got to be a better way to provide housing than whatever we’re doing now, but putting an inept government, run by corrupt or otherwise incompetent career bureaucrats, in charge of the roof over my head would be a hilarious joke if people weren’t being completely earnest about it.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, let’s turn an entire country’s housing stock into the projects.

        No fucker wants that, and you’re disingenuous for suggesting they do, or that nationalisation of housing means that.

        There’s got to be a better way to provide housing than whatever we’re doing now, but putting an inept government, run by corrupt or otherwise incompetent career bureaucrats, in charge of the roof over my head would be a hilarious joke if people weren’t being completely earnest about it.

        Another strawman. You think nationalisation of housing happens without a government competent enough to do it?

        You might as well complain about buses because they don’t work without wheels.