Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "CBC News: The National" channel.

  1.  @justintrudoo  Since when did socialism support mass immigration?
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  2. What about the property taxes, repair and maintenance costs and insurance premiums?
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  3. Can't blame the landlords when there are people willing to pay those rents.
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  4.  @atesah  <people are entitled however to have shelter> No they're not. Terms and conditions exist for a reason.
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  5. <Wage stagnation is also a problem factor here…> And currency devaluation.
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  6. <They don't care about renters.> Why should they? They don't owe renters anything.
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  7. They do especially as they were the ones who took on the legal and financial risks of ownership.
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  8. <Food and shelters are basic living essentials.> But you're still not entitled to them. Neither are you entitled to demand that someone else provide it against his/her will for free if not at a steep discount.
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  9. <Hearing a landlord complain that the tenant is not paying rent shows that the landlord does not understand the relationship between incomes and rents and as such I have no sympathy for these people> Just like tenants don't understand that the rising rents are a consequence of rising costs to keep the rental unit operational. The property and land taxes, mortgages and interest rates, utility costs, repair and maintenance, insurance, etc.
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  10.  @atesah  Yet you still wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
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  11.  @Doraemonhandle  It never really was. That's why in most cities in the world, the poor live on the outskirts.
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  12.  @finn6988  Housing is not a right. There's a reason why landlords and property-owners don't rent or sell to just anyone.
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  13. And public housing = slums.
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  14. How? A lot of jobs cannot be done remotely.
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  15. But most won't because the other places are not as desirable. It's either Toronto, Vancouver or bust.
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  16.  @timber543  Translation: nowhere else they deem appealing.
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  17. But the Liberal/NDP-voters moving in from Ontario are trying to change all that.
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  18.  @MedicalAutonomyProject  They barely even pay the existing doctors.
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  19. 1) For what? Living in a place you can't afford is not a right. Either pay up or move out to somewhere you can afford. 2) Meaning higher taxes for everyone else to support it putting some in poverty in the process.
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  20. And tenants are entitled losers. You don't have the right to live in a place you can't afford.
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  21. Not really. Federal and provincial governments are part of the problem.
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  22.  @A99-b6h  The poster didn't come from privilege.
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  23. Entitled tenant.
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  24.  @Deruwugen  Says who?
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  25. @The Great Gazoo Who's the right people?
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  26.  @rebeccahillsares8253  < but people are suffering. > Some of them by their own doing.
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  27. <Like Finland we could through the Canada Pension Fund > And leave people without a pension by the time they reach eligibility age.
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  28. Just like no sympathy for tenants. Step your budgeting game up.
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  29.  @TheClownWorldShow  Pretty much. Also conservative politicians. Yet the cities they're complaining about not being able to afford to live in are as liberal/left-wing as they come.
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  30. Government restrictions.
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  31. Raised by Boomers and Gen-Xers.
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  32. <Tenants have a right to housing > But landlord have the right to set the terms and conditions housing will be provided under.
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  33. Due to construction costs, permit fees, etc.
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  34. Because due to local zoning laws, those are the only high-density housing they're legally allowed to build in the city.
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  35. <Housing is a human right.> Says who? <Tenants have rights.> So do landlords. <It is not a human right for arseholes like the big landlord in this story to make more money.> Actually yes it is as he was the one who put up the money to buy the property.
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  36.  @MentionBiscuit  How about buy your own place?
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  37. <renters cannot.> They should have save some of their money and bought the property themselves. It's not the landlords' fault that a lot of renters rather party and BS barely getting by than invest in their own futures.
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  38. Canada is finding out the hard way like Sweden it cannot have a welfare state and open borders at the same time. The Gulf states have welfare but it's restricted to citizens, namely ethnic locals only.
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  39.  user-dx5em7om4t  And probably vote for the same kind of politicians and policies that caused her/his son to flee Ontario.
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  40. Empathy doesn't pay utility bills, insurance premiums, repair and maintenance fees, mortgage or property taxes.
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  41. Enabled and facilitated by even greedier governments.
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  42.  @mauriceharting5877  And left countless countries including Russia bankrupt.
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  43.  @mauriceharting5877  <It requires politicians and the public sector to sacrifice some of their financial advantages when compared to the private sector by lowering their salaries with the result of lowering taxes> And laying off public-sector workers.
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  44. Black people need to think beyond just being workers and renters always at the mercy of others.
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  45.  @minoozolala  And tenants are incredibly entitled. Always wanting more than they're willing to pay.
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  46. Zoning restrictions. And the fact that Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are where the jobs at.
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  47. The rich save and invest while the poor spend all they have.
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  48.  @katherinespencer2073  Exactly.
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  49. Corporations are the reason why the country has a middle class.
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  50. South and East Asians.
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  51. <3) low or stagnant wages> Partly due to high taxes. You forgot to mention a mediocre job market.
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  52. First drop all the property taxes, insurance premiums, repair and maintenance costs, etc. by 30%.
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  53. And tenants have no clue or sense.
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  54. No it isn't.
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  55.  @robocop581  <They're willing to sacrifice for the future.> While Canadians rather sacrifice their futures for that comfortable lifestyle right now.
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  56. Since when was housing a right? <The banks put up blockades and the credit bureau puts up exclusions. Both together make for good gate keeping. > And rightfully so. They don't owe anyone credit or mortgage.
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  57. No. That would be the Canadian government. And landlords are no more greedier than tenants with no sense deludedly thinking they have the right to live in the most expensive part of town for cheap.
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  58.  @kimmansour7160  Hardly. Renters pay only one person while property-owners pay different numbers of people as the bills come separately.
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  59. Because governments are themselves and beholden to property-owners who make the majority of their voter base.
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  60. How is it greed when landlords are facing rising property taxes, insurance premiums, mortgages, etc. ?
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  61. Tenants = losers.
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  62. <the problem is greed and selfishness> Including that of tenants who think they're entitled to live in a place they don't own and can't afford.
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  63. While socialists are both wicked and incompetent. That's why they are not to be trusted with power.
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  64. You can thank Ontario for that.
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  65. Property tax and restriction increases have to stop.
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  66.  @marilynnemeth3625  AirBnB is just a consequence of government policy making long-term rentals costly for landlords not just financially but legally.
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  67. Van life is great only if you're willing to do without an assume all the costs yourself.
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  68. LOL. Windsor = Canada's version of the US rustbelt.
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  69.  @daebak_hana  Government = the ultimate landlord.
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  70. Same with the TAL in Montreal.
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  71. Manitoba is a wasteland. No offense. And Alberta? Few people want to live around Conservative-voters.
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  72. <The government is doing nothing> Because they're property-owners themselves and make money off of property and land taxes.
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  73. <It is the short term rentals and the big companys trying to make money off people 100% > Thanks to government restrictions that make it costly to build and own housing leaving only the richest of the rich to take on the task.
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  74. No thanks.
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  75. My co-op board of directors said the same thing at the last general meeting. The co-op lost a lot of money having to deal with bad tenants.
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  76.  @murrproductions9654  Just like no one's going to give tenants any sympathy for their inability to manage their finances being the cause of why they can't pay the rent in a timely manner.
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  77.  @KennethYimHomes  Namely on whatever's still around.
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  78. But they can do something about their personal finances.
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  79. LOL.
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  80. Just like I can't feel too bad for the short-sighted frivolous renters who can't budget for squat but expect the landlord to cut them some slack.
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  81. Translation: they want something at your expense as according to them, you're "the rich."
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  82.  @blobtv7444  ROFL
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  83. And in the end tenants suffer in the form of either having to pay higher rent on whatever unit is still around or no place to rent at all.
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  84.  @stevenshorten6184  Actually no place to buy either as the prices are still out of reach anyway.
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  85.  @murrproductions9654  Don't rent then. It's not the landlord's fault you didn't have the foresight or sense to sacrifice for your future opting to live it up in the present.
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  86. This housing crisis is more of a city issue since the city is where the vast majority of renters live.
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  87. <and their incomes dont increase when rent increases.> That's not the landlord's problem. Renters need to take that up with workplace management.
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  88. They'll do that when tenants learn how to live within their means so they can afford the rent or better yet buy their own house.
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  89. Thanks to those who got priced out of Ontario moving in.
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  90.  @kevinstfort  <They aren’t interested in profit (or large profit), their interest is on the welfare of its society. > LOL. Don't be naive. Government is very much interested in profit. There's a reason why they got out of the social housing business and most social housing suffers from mismanagement, neglect and underfunding.
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  91. Mass immigration is a by-product of feminism.
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  92. Landlords caused nothing. <by pricing almost everyone out of renting for the sake of unmitigated greed.> In response to the high property taxes, land values, repair and maintenance costs, mortgage and interest, insurance premiums, etc. imposed on them by the government, bank and (provincially-run) utility companies.
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  93.  @greg6500  Yes it does along with high demand from people willing and able to pay the higher prices.
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  94. <A home is a necessity> But it's still not a right as no one owes you one.
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  95.  @hyena280  There's barely anything socialist about Canada as Canada is by and large a free-market country.
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  96. <as we have with Healthcare> And so far how has that worked out with Canadians being unable to get a family doctor or timely procedures sometimes having to go the US for such?
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  97. In response to Lib-NDP-imposed rent control that locked out new renters from entering the market and discouraged new housing to be built.
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  98. <We need government intervention.> Government intervention is very much why we're in this mess. Mass immigration, rent control enabling Air BnB and corporate ownership as the mom-and-pop owners got taxed and regulated out of the market forcing them to sell or leave the property to crumble because they were legally barred from setting the rent at the amount sufficient enough to cover basic operating/maintenance expenses. Bureaucracy and red tape resulting in high building costs and condos being the only high-density housing worth building.
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  99.  @lenadahling  Wrong! Libs do along with leaving societies all but completely unrecognizable.
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  100. LOL. The same socialism many of the immigrants are fleeing from if not its after-effects. India had that for most of its post-independence existence.
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  101. Then relax the zoning laws and restrictions on building.
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  102. So are tenants.
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  103. LOL. Housing is not a right. And your suggestions are the exact reason no one wants anything to do with rental housing. Government meddling made it non-viable.
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  104.  @roddc7696  Housing is not a right if you can be denied it or have it taken from you.
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  105. Not really. They're not responsible for some tenant's frivolous spending habits or lack of ability or desire to get something better.
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  106.  @sew_gal7340  For what? It's not the rich's fault a lot of the poor can't manage what they have to save their lives.
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  107. If you're not prepared to buy your own place, then you don't have the right to complain about how much landlords decide to charge or what they do with their properties.
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  108. They have to be living beyond their means as they're making $7 500/month and even if the rent is $2 000/month, they still have a lot of money left over.
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  109. London and New York are world-class cities and they have plenty of homelessness to go around.
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  110. Starting with the government itself.
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  111. New York is still a car city. Ever been to Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx?
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  112.  @ninemoonplanet  Which is legitimate.
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  113.  @omglovemeimsweating  Housing is not a right, though.
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  114. They just want white-collar jobs.
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  115. Along with entitled tenants.
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  116. They corrupted nothing. Local zoning laws is the reason for the lack of "affordable" housing being built.
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  117.  @murrproductions9654  But Canada is a free country. The poster has no obligation to sell those extra properties.
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  118. No. The government is.
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  119.  @christianjarvis167  Like it was in the early 1990's when Bob Rae ran the show?
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  120. That's if you mind being the government's -----.
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  121.  @annabellemalo  Along with shortages and higher prices because you'll have no one to get anything from.
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  122. You have high taxes and a relatively uncompetitive economy to thank for that.
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  123.  @Canada_Dominium  While you don't seem to have a moral or ethical problem with forcing people to produce and provide housing against their will.
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  124. No. The housing crisis due to government meddling. And social housing = crime and poverty-ridden slums.
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  125. But AirBnb's are the result of lopsided rental laws favoring tenants that made long-term rentals costly and no longer worth maintaining.
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  126.  Merican Modi  Namely Democrat-run locales.
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  127. As exaggerated as stereotypes are, there is truth in them. Asians are more likely to own property while blacks are more likely to rent.
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  128. 89% of canada's land is Crown-owned.
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  129. The housing market is anything but unregulated.
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  130. But they have fewer jobs and services and are not that desirable.
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  131. Then get your own house. Otherwise you don't have the right to complain about how much a provider decides to charge you.
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  132.  @annabellemalo  There's nothing privileged about the poster.
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  133. And who can blame them if anyone saw how pitifully low the government pension payouts are?
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  134. @Kevin Souza And what society would that be? Landlords are not responsible for the shortsightedness and frivolity of tenants.
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  135. @Kevin Souza Hardly as they're not responsible for the high property taxes, insurance premiums, repair and maintenance costs, utility costs, etc. that make up the overall rent.
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  136.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  Canada has no super-rich.
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  137. Ontario already already did that.
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  138. Thanks to people from Ontario moving in.
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  139.  @rainorshine7816  <Remember always, the “essential” workers have a right to safe and affordable housing too.> Also remember always owners have the right to tell them NO.
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  140. Only 11% of Canadians make 6 figures.
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  141. So does the UAE.
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  142. Time to revoke their Student Visas.
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  143. The do have a choice. They chose instant gratification over their futures.
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  144. Yes it is. If you're so concerned about getting exploited, why don't you save your money and buy your own house?
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  145. <A landlord may not rent to you if your a single mom, a person with Disability or if you simply don't make a lot. > Or if you're a member of a certain racial/ethnic group.
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  146. Let's just hope you saved and invested during your working years for the day you become old and no longer physically able to work.
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  147. Landlords are not charging whatever they want. They're charging what the market can bear and covers the increases in taxes, maintenance, insurance, etc.
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  148. Exactly.
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  149. Yes they do.
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  150. <renters are demanding.... shelter....> At someone else's expense. <who do you trust.> Landlords. Their property, their rules.
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  151. And to a lesser extent, utility and insurance companies.
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  152. Pretty much.
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  153.  @dolcemaddalena  <I've noticed there are no houses being built in Montreal it is mostly overpriced cheap quality condos.> Montreal proper has no land to build houses on. If you want a house, you're going to move off-island.
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  154.  @atesah  And replace it with what? Equally corrupt greedy in the form of entitled socialism?
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  155.  @FreeJulianAssange23  Renters are even more so expecting society to pay for their poor life choices and spending habits.
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  156. Not really. You don't have the right to live in a place you can't afford. Pay up or move out.
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  157. Future shortages and cost increases be damned!
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  158. <This displaced so many that lived in an area for generations.> But never bothered to buy the property they lived on if it wasn't owned by the city. Complacency did them in.
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  159. But none of them are as desirable as Toronto or Vancouver.
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  160. Who's most Canadians? 68% of Canadians are home-owners.
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  161.  @reckonerwheel5336  That's what the outskirts are for.
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  162.  @Peacenutman  Fascism = socialism.
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  163. Government regulations are the reason affordable housing are not even legal let alone viable to build .
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  164. No it isn't. And neither is living in the most trendiest city on a shelf-stocker's salary.
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  165. They voted Liberal and in turn their own displacement. It's only an issue now because they and their loved ones are being personally affected by it.
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  166. But the average NYer earns more than the average Torontonian.
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  167. Um. No. We already have that with city housing.
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  168. Then ban immigration. But no Canadian politician is going to risk being called a racist xenophobe and have his career and personal life ruined.
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  169. <Apartment is the best option cheap and green.> But zoning restrictions, price-control and tenants given way too much protection rendered them not worth the trouble. Hence, the condos and single-family houses being the only housing built. There's a reason the federal Liberals under Chretien got out of the rental market.
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  170. Why? They own the property and have the right to turn in profit on what they invested their money in. Renters need to either buy their own homes or manage their money better so they can afford the rent.
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  171.  @BUSTEDDVD  <But if you keep uping the rent you literally create a class of homeless people because poor people usually live cheque to cheque.> Landlords don't keep upping the rent for joy. They up the rent in response to the property taxes and other costs upped on them. Poor people usually live cheque to cheque because some are just plain lousy with finances.
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  172. Thanks to zoning restrictions, those are the only entities who can afford to build and buy property.
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  173.  @k.t.5405  <unlike Montrealers (except Westmount)> Also West Island and other Anglo-majority on-island suburbs.
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  174.  @justacoolguy1  But Liberals run Toronto.
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  175. <The business class doesn’t care, and simply won’t deliver affordable housing. > Because that's not their job. <They also will destroy all our old buildings and prime farm land to build low quality condos and subdivisions.> Some old buildings are too costly to renovate and are better off demolished. <Although they could build more affordable units, they mostly aren’t.> Too costly to maintain. Current affordable suffer from mismanagement and not generating enough revenue to cover basic operating costs due to tenants being undercharged in rent.
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  176. My youngest brother is past 40 and has been living with me since 2020 as he couldn't afford to live in Vancouver anymore having to move back to Montreal.
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  177. Via socialist policy of high taxes, punitive regulations and inflation.
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  178. Maybe because the tenant's perspective is that of someone who needs to get his financial stuff in order? Landlords have every reason to be entitled as they own the property and are well within their rights to grant or deny/take back an apartment to whoever he/she wants for almost any reason.
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  179. Or restrict immigration.
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  180. No. High taxes, bureaucracy and punitive regulations killed Canada's productivity. <big class of unproductive people: landlord/agents/financing.> No. Try the government/public sector.
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  181. Exactly.
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  182.  @vidthreenorth4007  Africa didn't get the memo.
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  183. Toronto has land to build new housing on while New York and Hong Kong don't as they're maxed out.
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  184. Zoning restrictions. And the vast majority of people only want to live in the big cities.
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  185. Notice most of the cities in Canada with the lowest crime rates are situated in Quebec?
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  186. That money has to come from somewhere to support that minimum wage increase.
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  187. Canada is not Singapore as Singapore has no land to build anymore housing on.
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  188.  @PhilTheThrill81  Exactly.
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  189. Pretty much.
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  190.  @NDWest  Kitchener-Waterloo.
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  191. <Rents are absurd in Halifax, fully on the level of most places in Ontario.> Thanks to people who got priced out of the GTA moving in.
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  192. Inequality is natural.
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  193. <We need a massive state-run Free housing system. We need massive increases in regulation on pricing.> No we don't. The government is the reason why there is a housing shortage in the first place. The not enough houses is a product of their zoning restrictions. And price-controls discourage any new housing from being built.
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  194. The average New Yorker makes twice as much as the average Torontonian.
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  195. Nah. It all started with Bob Rae. Mike Harris was just a consequence of what Bob Rae started with rent control and the subsequent shortage of housing.
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  196. The Territories don't have a housing crisis.
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  197. <compounded with the fact that nearly all out policymakers are also landlords with multiple tenants> And so are most of their voters.
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  198. Exactly.
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  199.  @uromvictor  But they got out of that business in the 90's.
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  200.  @mikewalsh7793  But the housing is dilapidated and doctors have to work a side job to supplement their meager state wages.
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  201. The so-called greater good are ignorant and every bit as selfish as the 1%. Look at how they treat each other.
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  202. Yes there is.
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  203. Or buy your own place.
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  204.  @mikewalsh7793  <Socialism is regulation for the good of society that makes life's necessities available no matter what your income level. > Until it's no longer available due to said regulation that stifles supply and production.
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  205. While tenants are operating on entitlement.
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  206. Like where? Aside from maybe Montreal, nowhere else in Canada have prestige.
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  207. Rent control doesn't work in the long run.
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  208. Housing is not a right. No one is owed or obligated to provide such.
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  209. They'll do that when the government stop raising the taxes and fees on them.
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  210. <They serve the interests of big developers, employers, and landlords.> Because they pay the most taxes (in real numbers) and are responsible for the middle class existing in the first place. < There are absolutely things they could do make life and rent more afforable, but they just won't. They could expand rent control, build socialized housing, nationalize the grocery chains and telecomms, implement a #LivingWage, etc. but they won't because their interests are the interests of the capitalist class and to a lesser extent existing homeowners.> Or because it will actually bankrupt the country in the long run as governments are even worse at running businesses and you can tax "the rich" for only so long until the working class become the new rich to tax. Socialism failed for a reason.
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  211. <All you have to do is expropriate the expropriators.> That would be the government. The ultimate expropriator.
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  212. No it's not. Even social housing has restrictions on who can get it.
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  213. We already did that with TFW's.
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  214.  @justluckyz  Exactly.
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  215.  @justacoolguy1  And would bankrupted the province like they did in the early 1990's.
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  216. No more than tenants are entitled and arrogant.
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  217. Also live within your means.
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  218. <Most tenants have no choice but rent, but people choose to be landlords instead of getting a real job.> Define real job. And a lot of tenants have no choice but to rent because they're lousy with finances. It figures why no self-respecting bank would grant them a mortgage and they're broke all the time.
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  219. Singapore doesn't have mass immigration.
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  220. You mean Hong Kong.
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  221.  @casual35  Or because there was a rent freeze and eviction moratorium during that time which allowed tenants to stay without paying for months?
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  222. Jobs, amenities, services and social support,.
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  223. All going to show that Quebec was more than justified in making Bill 101 and 96 and successfully getting some authority over immigration.
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  224.  @craigiefconcert6493  No.
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  225. But you do what you got to do like your grandparents did when they couldn't afford the communities they lived in.
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  226. Exactly.
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  227. <A soulless country, weak economy. > That is sustained by US largesse and real estate.
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  228.  @casual35  Can't afford partly due to his/her poor budgeting and living beyond their means.
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  229. You better not cry about shortages due to regulations.
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  230. Canada would have to do a major about-face on women's rights.
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  231. That's because you're paid in USD while the average local makes a tiny fraction of that per month.
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  232. <we need humanitarians, we need progressives, we need empaths in office> No we don't. They have done plenty to exacerbate the problem. And a lot of countries that had such people in office ended up going bankrupt.
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  233. Housing is not a human right as the landlord is not obligated to rent to you.
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  234.  @lenadahling  Yet you can afford your "alternative" lifestyle and high living standards. Hence the household debt.
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  235. In response to NDP rent controls that killed housing supply.
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  236. Hey renters, why don't you live within your means and /or get a better-paying job so you can afford to buy your own house?
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  237. <Then the government needs to address the factors driving up the cost of housing such as foreign speculation, money laundering through property, and housing hedge funds buying more and more of the available rental market.> Enabled and facilitated by the government itself with its zoning restrictions, lax immigration policies and bureaucracy. <As well, I have a hard time feeling bad for those landlords who only purchase properties to make a profit when we have millions of homeless people in our country. > I don't if you took a look at how incredibly meager government pensions pay out. Landlords are making a profit to secure their futures. It's not their problem many tenants don't have the foresight or sense to do the same.
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  238. Which was what the Supreme Court ruled against in 2005. Canada and the provinces denying people the right to seek and pay for private healthcare.
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  239. Not Montreal. It's an Anglosphere thing.
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  240. Yes. Affordable housing = city housing.
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  241.  @thebruceslife8148  Both Calgary and Edmonton have leftist Mayors.
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  242. The price of butter has to do with Trudeau's carbon and fuel taxes on production and transport.
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  243. So does the government. And the government wins with kickbacks and property tax revenue.
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  244. No. And not even close.
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  245. <cities at the end of the day have more power than provincial or federal governments as they are the ones that zone areas and choose who they sell land too> But provinces control the cities funding. <can choose who gets to live there and who gets to be homeless.> Because they own the property which gives them the right to decide who gets to live on it.
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  246. They already did rent control.
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  247.  @johnnysecular  <rent control already does an amazing job of making rent affordable> Only for existing renters. Not for new renters trying to get in the market.
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  248. Common citizens are still struggling in Germany.
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  249. So are renters. It's not the landlords' job to provide housing for those too irresponsible to buy their own house.
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  250.  @UseURHead  Yes. Irresponsible as a lot of tenants seem to take their lifestyles more seriously than their futures.
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  251.  @22chachalaca  Or just don't want the legal and financial responsibilities of buying a home.
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  252.  @KMCA779  No they didn't.
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  253.  @Tyler-qh9jm  Conservative provinces don't have the population or density to counter the GTA.
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  254. Canada is not Scandinavia as Scandinavia is for the most part homogeneous and policies like state-controlled public housing are an easy sell.
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  255. <Canada is supposed to be socialist.> Which is probably why it has a problem in the first place. Supply shortages and high prices due to government meddling. Sweden is finding out the hard way that socialism and open borders don't mix. Never mind that they got bankrupted by socialism in the 1970's.
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  256. Just like people in Monaco.
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  257. LOL @ PEI.
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  258.  @rebelliussoul3645  Because everyone wants to side with the little guy even when there's a valid reason for him being the little guy. Some of them of his own making.
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  259. The legacy of British colonialism.
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  260. And 45 million dead later.
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  261. Lopsided regulations favoring tenants enabled AirBnB.
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  262. That kind of housing is illegal to build in English Canada.
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  263.  @stinkfinger630  Sure you do!
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  264.  @stinkfinger630  Calling them out on their BS = hate? LOL
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  265.  @stinkfinger630  LOL
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  266. Germany also has a housing crisis.
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  267.  @casual35  But 89% of the land is Crown-owned and off-limits to inhabitation.
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  268. Just like are we supposed to feel sorry for tenants who live beyond their means, get complacent then wonder why they can't afford the rent? Household debt is a thing for a reason. And landlords have nothing to do with it. <BECAUSE of people that are "investing" in these houses and driving up prices.> To recoup the money they invested into those houses like any self-respecting investor.
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  269. Ordinary people are not that honest.
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  270. But wages are much lower. Besides, doesn't Manitoba have the 2nd lowest minimum wage in the country?
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  271. Then lower land values and building costs.
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  272. <Government needs to subsidize more.> With what money?
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  273. <What are you inviting immigrants for?> To replace old stock Canadians.
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  274. No more greedier than some tenants just looking for a free ride and someone else to pay for their own inability to get their finances in order.
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  275. No we don't. And he was no more right about landlords than Mugabe was about White farmers.
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  276. LOL.
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  277. A society full of deadbeats and general laborers.
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  278. <Part of the reason why AIRBNB is so popular is due to the fact short term rentals come with less strings attached. The Residential tenancy act, while possibly created with good intentions is a primary reason why home owners are fearful of renting. Renters can damage your property, squat without paying rent for months and can abuse the system to exploit landlords> Exactly.
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  279. <on the other people can't afford a home to live in...> Yet they can afford their expensive habits.
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  280. Hence, the condos and luxury apartments.
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  281. Government meddling in the form of lopsided regulations favoring tenants made AirBnB a thing.
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  282. No. Corporate rentals are products of government restrictions that made housing costly to build and own ensuring only the richest of the rich can do such.
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  283. I didn't know they were allowed to do that. I thought there was a moratorium on evictions.
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  284. Better than socialism where you'll be lucky just to get even dilapidated housing at all given its track record for shortages.
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  285. And tenants are just ignorant and entitled.
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  286. Just like no one feels bad for you, deadbeat!
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  287. What is this country's values? And doctors are well within their rights to be in it for the money.
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  288.  @Mallory-Malkovich  Some of them are condemned.
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  289.  @nopeyupokay378  But having kids you can't afford to raise is planned.
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  290.  @teadott  Also condoms, pulling out and good old-fashioned abstinence.
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  291. But you have to learn some French, though. Also deal with lower salaries and higher taxes.
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  292.  @Bugs11000  Only 16% of Montrealers speak English.
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  293. Which only means higher rent for tenants to pay to cover said tax on landlords.
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  294.  @That90sShow  Or an SRO at a run-down motel if those are still around.
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  295. But that's costly in the long run.
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  296. The rest of Canada don't have the stomach to do what Quebec does.
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  297.  @ogs_Boga1900  Where? Downtown?
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  298.  @sum1337  Or live where you can afford. Living in Downtown or some other trendy neighborhood on a burger-flipper's salary is not a right.
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  299. And why should they? A lot of tenants are tenant, because they take their finances and futures way too lightly.
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  300.  @Edt5814  Exactly.
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  301.  @misspetit  And a declining population.
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  302.  @Ryzen7-x9h  But most people only want to live in Toronto, Vancouver and to a lesser extent Montreal.
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  303.  @MariamMariam-ue7vz  They took on the risks of ownership while the only risk renters took was a rejected application.
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  304.  @AuntyKsTarot  No it isn't as any entity has the right to tell you NO.
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  305. No they can't. And certainly not without screwing over whoever will be responsible for building.
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  306. But also higher crime, same loony left-wing politics and corruption.
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  307.  @jacobnapkins1155  And the subsequent shortages as new renters are locked out of the market.
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  308.  @Lrxxx321  Define normal people as most people don't work in the service sector making minimum wage.
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  309. Government meddling is the reason AirBnB exists.
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  310.  @thezu9250  Because government meddling made long-term rentals too costly to own and maintain.
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  311. <How is it that people making minimum wage suppose to live?> Roommates, marriage/common-law relationship, live on the outskirts and other less desirable areas, etc. <Yet people need their essential services but these essential workers don’t have a right to affordable housing? Something wrong here> Not really. Housing is not a right and they probably wouldn't be eligible for affordable housing as working full-time at minimum wage would put a worker over the threshold.
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  312. But local government is the reason why housing is expensive and in short supply.
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  313.  @marcguidobolen693  Yes it is. It's not the landlord's fault all you know how to do is take orders and collect a cheque.
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  314. Rent control doesn't benefit anyone except existing renters.
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  315. And tenant are being cheapskates.
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  316. I blame the British for promoting segregation.
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  317.  @cloutm_anager8262  AirBnB is a product of pro-renter/anti-landlord government policy.
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  318. And most tenants are deadbeats.
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  319.  @BlackHand531  Learn to save and invest and buy your own property. Then you won't have to deal with sleazeball landlords.
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  320. No it isn't.
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  321.  @MikeyPaper  Including living in a city you can't afford.
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  322. Rents are high due to land values and taxes.
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  323. <What human being, in the right mind selects Canada over European places like Germany, France, etc where you can rents can still be below the $500 mark for a one bedroom > Simple. Those who have no desire to learn any other language besides English. And Canada is bit more lenient than France and Germany when itr comes to language proficiency requirements.
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  324. Rent control is the reason why few people want anything to do with rentals. And the high rents are in response to the high taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance and repair costs, mortgages and interest, etc. imposed on landlords. Never mind the legal fees just to get the bad tenants evicted.
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  325. No it isn't. And AirBnB is the result of government over-regulation.
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  326. It's not their job to care for tenants.
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  327. And the only developed country without a private healthcare option.
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  328. AirBnB is the result of lopsided rental laws in favor of tenants making long-term rentals costly and no longer worth maintaining.
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  329.  @nopeyupokay378  Living beyond your means certainly doesn't help matters.
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