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

  1. <3) low or stagnant wages> Partly due to high taxes. You forgot to mention a mediocre job market.
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  2. First drop all the property taxes, insurance premiums, repair and maintenance costs, etc. by 30%.
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  3. And tenants have no clue or sense.
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  4. No it isn't.
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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8.  @kimmansour7160  Hardly. Renters pay only one person while property-owners pay different numbers of people as the bills come separately.
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  9. Because governments are themselves and beholden to property-owners who make the majority of their voter base.
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  10. How is it greed when landlords are facing rising property taxes, insurance premiums, mortgages, etc. ?
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  11. Tenants = losers.
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  12. <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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  13. While socialists are both wicked and incompetent. That's why they are not to be trusted with power.
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  14. You can thank Ontario for that.
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  15. Property tax and restriction increases have to stop.
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  16.  @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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  17. Van life is great only if you're willing to do without an assume all the costs yourself.
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  18. LOL. Windsor = Canada's version of the US rustbelt.
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  19.  @daebak_hana  Government = the ultimate landlord.
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  20. Same with the TAL in Montreal.
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  21. Manitoba is a wasteland. No offense. And Alberta? Few people want to live around Conservative-voters.
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  22. <The government is doing nothing> Because they're property-owners themselves and make money off of property and land taxes.
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  23. <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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  24. No thanks.
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  25. 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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  26.  @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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  27.  @KennethYimHomes  Namely on whatever's still around.
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  28. But they can do something about their personal finances.
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  29. LOL.
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  30. 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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  31. Translation: they want something at your expense as according to them, you're "the rich."
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  32.  @blobtv7444  ROFL
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  33. 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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  34.  @stevenshorten6184  Actually no place to buy either as the prices are still out of reach anyway.
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  35.  @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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  36. This housing crisis is more of a city issue since the city is where the vast majority of renters live.
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  37. <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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  38. 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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  39. Thanks to those who got priced out of Ontario moving in.
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  40.  @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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  41. Mass immigration is a by-product of feminism.
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  42. 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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  43.  @greg6500  Yes it does along with high demand from people willing and able to pay the higher prices.
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  44. <A home is a necessity> But it's still not a right as no one owes you one.
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  45.  @hyena280  There's barely anything socialist about Canada as Canada is by and large a free-market country.
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  46. <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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  47. 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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  48. <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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  49.  @lenadahling  Wrong! Libs do along with leaving societies all but completely unrecognizable.
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  50. 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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