Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Rent in Canada hits another record high in January | Canada Tonight" video.

  1. Abolish rent control as that enabled Air BnB's existence.
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  2. Why are tenants so entitled and ignorant?
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  3. It's not their job to.
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  4. No. Government meddling is.
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  5. Rent caps do not work. As a matter of fact, they enabled short-term renting, renovictions and corporate ownership.
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  6.  @karmacat5437  Rent control enabled Air BnB, renoviction and corporate buyout as mom-and-pop owners got taxed and regulated out of the market.
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  7. Not before property tax, mortgage, repair and maintenance cost increases, etc. are made criminal.
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  8. No. The problem is government meddling.
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  9.  @bradcanning875  Which means someone can afford the prices.
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  10.  @SARugby1  All products of government intervention.
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  11. Canada has lax immigration laws.
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  12. LOL. Government meddling enabled those corporations to have control of the housing market as the mom-and-pop property-owners got taxed and regulated to oblivion leaving corporations to fill the void. If anything, this is the rent control you asked for.
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  13. Yet Ontario's crisis still isn't as bad as Liberal/NDP-run BC which has rent control. Quebec has rent control and right-leaning leadership.
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  14.  @lynb1022  AB and SK have nothing on BC when it comes to being a nightmare.
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  15. No. Government has done more than enough damage with its intervention.
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  16. Air BnB is a product of rent control. Landlords seeking to do short-term renting because government made long-term renting costly and non-viable.
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  17. LOL. Government meddling exacerbated and enabled the crisis.
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  18.  @ChillyDippers  Sorry, little guy, but the government is the ultimate problem.
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  19. The government caused and enabled the problem.
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  20. Rent control made Air BnB.
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  21.  @Eminetics  Yet BC still has the highest rent and homelessness rate in the country.
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  22.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  Yes there is. Housing built before 2018 in Ontario are still under rent control.
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  23. Nor in Quebec.
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  24.  @notmuchtoit705  No. Government interference constrained supply.
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  25.  @canadabear72  Government meddling enabled those corporations and super-rich.
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  26. Because we hate conservatives more than we really love liberals.
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  27. Exactly.
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  28.  @Gabrielle499  Get your own house.
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  29.  @iExploder  No it didn't. And Harper didn't let 500 000 people in the country at a time.
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  30. <and the rich landlord class needs to be abolished.> And replaced with the government as the rich landlord class. <Greed of landlords is the driving force behind rent increases, > Nope. Try government meddling.
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  31. But who forced people to rent?
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  32. @siegfried487 And don't mind living in squalor with barely any functioning basic utilities like Cuba or North Korea.
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  33. Government intervention helped cause the rent increase.
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