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

  1. Not really. Most of Quebec have affordable housing.
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  2.  @martinsmith5520  That would be the vaxxed themselves.
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  3. Maybe in English Canada, yeah! Quebec has had co-ops for a while.
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  4. LOL
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  5. Just like the government is not interested in lowering property taxes or building restrictions.
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  6. Mostly due to Ethiopian citizens who made their money abroad and came back home.
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  7. Corporate greed was enabled by government greed.
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  8.  @A.GonzalezTO  Define fair wage. They make more than a good 35% of Canadians.
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  9. That. And also, why should I pay a tax for a service I have been denied the right to benefit from at my time of need?
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  10. The mandates?
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  11. This is free healthcare. Bureaucracy, mismanagement, negligence, etc. are just par for the course.
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  12.  @lyndanickerson1373  Namely English-speakers.
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  13. So, when are they going to do the same to Saudi Arabia?
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  14. And immigration.
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  15. They wanted to 2 months ago but postponed it when the 4500+ workers lost to their mandates proved too much to bear.
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  16. Harper was right in imposing visa restrictions on certain countries.
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  17. But Thailand doesn't have mass immigration.
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  18.  @bradparker1020  Says a self-serving selfish "human."
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  19. You mean higher taxes.
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  20. Things like this is why people are better off driving.
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  21. Drop the Carbon Tax.
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  22.  B 132  It doesn't. It's about control.
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  23. It doesn't help anyone as that money is going to be spent faster than they got it.
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  24.  @clodovyasylvionna  Then tenants should buy their own house and stop expecting someone else to provide them housing.
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  25. And end up like Venezuela and Zimbabwe where everyone was a millionaire until they saw the cost of just a loaf of bread?
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  26. They already did that. But one problem, though. Foreign students and refugees are exempt.
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  27.  @jeanbolduc5818  Some of them being Anglo-Montrealers still seething over getting ran out Quebec by the PQ.
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  28.  @TheTruthAlways  LOL. But in the long run and reality, it makes things more unaffordable for the average person.
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  29. Don't you just love feminism?
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  30. Thanks to government underfunding and mismanagement.
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  31.  @hyperstimmed  Maybe you should have bought your own house instead of relying on someone else to provide one for you.
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  32. <Nothing but approval of luxury developments full of condos that no one can afford and that sit half empty rather than affordable apartment complexes being built> Because due to zoning restrictions and high building costs, those are the only high-density housing legally allowed to be built. Affordable is just simply not viable. <They fell for the idea that all these towers to help with density would "keep rental rates low", which unto itself sounds foolish and like total BS. > Thanks to mass immigration-induced high demand along with Toronto and Vancouver being cities that people are willing to pay a premium to live in.
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  33. Simple. Regulation = housing shortages.
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  34. Hard to establish lower cost housing with increasing building and maintenance costs along with demand from those willing and able to pay more.
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  35.  @shaw7598  Yet most of it's uninhabitable and the vast majority of the population live near the US border.
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  36.  @Rooted_Locs  Which became a necessity after the government mismanaged public housing into insolvency.
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  37.  @gianduthjumnah1647  Which is exactly what Justin's step-father intended for Quebec.
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  38. And replace it with what?
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  39. Not necessarily failures, but the dangers of relying on foreigners for basic needs such as food.
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  40.  @kishakisha17  They didn't take the clot-shot.
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  41. <Lazy, slow, inefficient bureaucrats following laws specifically designed to make building anything new extra hard.> Or extra costly.
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  42. 0:03 You mean money stolen from your neighbors who were unfortunate enough to actually work for a living gave you a sense of dignity.
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  43.  @stevenlee7748  You don't have to be a tenant.
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  44. What do you mean had to? You voluntarily chose career and lifestyle over family and future.
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  45.  Itchicus Scrotumus  Then buy your own property.
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  46.  @justinbarton8808  Voted for by naive and short-sighted citizens.
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  47.  @SecretlyAHorse  And a Democrat-voter.
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  48. <other than stare over a steering wheel.> That's because driving requires you to pay attention at all times.
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  49. Rest in peace. He was my favorite talk-show host in the 1990's.
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  50. Yet no one went homeless or struggled to find housing when Harper was in charge.
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  51. Not really. The opportunities are still there. It's just that you're going to have to pay a bigger premium for the privilege.
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  52. He hasn't been in power since 2015.
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  53. <We've come to a point where cities are no longer seen as places where people live. > Cities were never really seen as places where people live to begin with, but work and do business. <Also, businesses in these cities are shuttering because a - people are just scraping by as is and can't afford to frequent them, b- people don't have time to actually step into a store because all they do is work and commute to work so everything is ordered online, and c - fewer people live by these businesses. > Also d - high taxes and government over-regulation. <One extreme is Ashgabat the capital of Turkmenistan. I have heard that no one lives there - everyone lives on the periphery of the city> There's also Pyongyang, North Korea. Only government officials and tourists are allowed to live there while ordinary citizens live on the outskirts.
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  54. Exactly.
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  55. <a lot of other judges would've probably send the guy to jail...> And rightfully so. Theft is theft. And compassion = enablement.
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  56. Is it due to Torontonians moving in?
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  57. Better that than housing being unavailable even if people are willing to pay the higher rent.
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  58. <if we all did this and more there’d be no more greedy corporations left.> Just greedy governments and citizens. <Norway is a good example of cooperative everything> As long as the borders are kept closed.
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  59.  @freddytang2128  Indian immigration.
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  60. Also the government-run liquor and weed stores.
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  61.  @Jane-yg3vz  The unvaxxed last year made a perfect scapegoat as the government got let off the hook for all the underfunding, mismanagement and poor conditions leading up to it.
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  62. While all the housing still under rent control is hard to come by.
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  63.  @chopaface  It protects those who already have a place, not those looking for a (new) place.
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  64. How can they lower the price when it's costing more to produce, distribute and supply?
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  65. Said no one ever!
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  66.  @Parischick11  Just like public housing and some really run-down private housing.
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  67. Simple. No jobs. No services. No amenities.
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  68. And become another Yugoslavia. Mismanaged and bankrupt.
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  69. <Rent control is the most basic and was the only protection renters had. > While blocking new renters from finding housing. <Dougy Ford took out rent control so him, the developers, and investors could build non-stop condos that only they can afford and rent to you and me at unaffordable rates to pay their mortgage.> Which only applies to housing that was built within the past 5 years (2018-present). You're free to find a unit that was built prior to that. But good luck on that as thanks to rent control, that's in short supply.
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  70. Pretty much.
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  71.  @Method9  EV's are not environmentally friendly and ironically require oil just so they can run properly.
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  72.  @jodikoberinski1639  There's nothing outrageous about it as foreign students don't seem to have a problem paying for the privilege to be here.
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  73.  @SecretlyAHorse  And basically using the school to outsource their own parenting responsibilities.
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  74. And pay 70% of all the taxes. Besides, democracy is not a sustainable form of governance as most of the people will just simply vote for politicians who promise them benefits at the expense of the treasury, long-term economic sustainability and their "rich" neighbors.
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  75. Except this is a municipal issue. And Edmonton is a Liberal/NDP stronghold.
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  76. No. How about abolish income tax altogether as it was originally supposed to be a temporary measure?
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  77. LOL
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  78.  @ageofechochambers9469  Exactly.
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  79. The jabs being safe and effective.
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  80. Except Quebec.
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  81.  @bobboby2400  <It's about the government not making things affordable for people to live,> Due to bureaucracy that makes things scarce and expensive.
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  82. Translation: taxpayer-subsidized housing.
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  83.  @chrisgraham2904  Thanks to zoning restrictions and NIMBY's, condos were the only high-density housing legally allowed to be built within city limits.
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  84. <Lastly Toronto, or Vancouver are not the only places people can choose to live in Canada.> But the other cities don't have the amenities, opportunities, services or desirability like Toronto or Vancouver.
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  85. No. Rent control exacerbated the housing crisis by making units unavailable especially for those looking for housing.
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  86. LOL. There's hardly anything working class about the public sector especially the federal public sector.
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  87. Just as Marx advocated in the name of abolishing private property.
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  88. That's not a viable option for those who don't drive.
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  89.  @billmcmeekin7909  <They go back to their country of origin,> Or they go to the US like a lot of even Canadian-born healthcare workers do.
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  90.  @HuplesCat  And support greedy socialism.
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  91.  @Johnwractliffe  Pretty much.
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  92.  @pastorofmuppets777  It exacerbated the problem.
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  93.  @RK-vf4mo  Edmonton is far-left. Far-left policies help alright. Help enable and exacerbate problems.
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  94. And when exactly was that?
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  95. The problem is people being too dependent on government for their day-tot-day survival.
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  96.  @matthewklassen7457  Actually it's if you make more than $49 000 per year.
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  97. Municipalities played a prominent role in it with their zoning restrictions.
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  98. It's the same as anyone in the highest tax bracket.
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  99. No. Public land = government property.
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  100. Translation: government-run slums.
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  101.  @burleybater  <where she is not allowed to have a social life.> As in endless partying and drug use at the expense of peace and quiet for her neighbors. <Oh, and by the way. She's not a girl. She's a grown up woman.> Not mentally. She's stuck in her teens. <If they take the place back too, I'd say that's grounds for a fight.> For what? It was never her place to begin with. They have every right to take it back as she proved herself unable to follow simple rules to maintain it.
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  102. The government has done something. The high taxes, bureaucracy and punitive regulations made renting costly and pretty much not worth it.
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  103.  @Toto-cl8rw  A lot of the needy don't do themselves any favors with their habits.
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  104. It seem that bias and discrimination is perfectly fine as long as it's against Whites and men.
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  105. All of which can be traced back to government policy and intervention.
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  106. Because conglomerates own multiple chains.
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  107. Neither should income tax. After all, it was supposed to be a temporary measure when WW2 happened.
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  108.  @ladyjade6446  Rent caps = the building either gets sold or left to crumble.
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  109. I don't blame people for wanting to go rural.
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  110.  @helloitsme4139  <1 or 2 people don’t need a Hugh apartment to themselves.> Yes they do. Not everyone desires to share living space with toxic people including family members.
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  111.  @gsin311  Just like there are people willing and able to pay a premium to live Downtown.
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  112. Too much siding with the tenant put rentals out of the market as they're no longer worth investing in.
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  113.  @dougpatterson7494  Homeowners make up 66% of Canada's population.
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  114.  @STONE69_  Nah! I'm good.
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  115.  @icebox90002000  <Plus provinces have cut health care funding for years > In response to the federal government cutting healthcare funding to the provinces.
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  116. How about legalizing private healthcare?
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  117. Bad comparison. Most debt slaves are slaves to their own personal greed and poor management of finances.
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  118.  @rawnie79  Austerity, privatization and the like don't happen for nothing.
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  119.  @johnnolan5579  Yes it is true. And Canada was much better off under Harper unless you're one of those bitter Ontarians.
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  120. Quebec was the original Canada.
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  121.  @tomterrific9459  I'm Canadian too and the poster is right. Canadians are docile and ignorant.
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  122. Then you need to start paying "fair" prices.
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  123. No. And it's the federal government we are at war with. You can thank them for the carbon tax that jacked up the costs of supply, production and distribution of food.
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  124. At who's expense? Housing will not be affordable as long as it costs a fortune just to even build let alone maintain.
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  125. <That is an agreement between the recruiter and the worker!> And whatever legal disputes that may arise have to be taken up with the judicial system of the worker and recruiter's home country.
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  126.  @toppaypositionacademy4658  No. Try 8 years since Trudeau first got elected.
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  127. How is housing a human right when it can be denied or taken away from you?
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  128. Yet it's not ridiculous how much owners are being charged in taxes, fees, premiums and other costs?
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  129. That doesn't work. And Montreal already did that. Developers would much rather pay the fine than build affordable housing as affordable = financial loss.
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  130.  @100canadianmaplestirup8  Pretty much.
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  131. Namely by the government.
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  132. Plus advocates who will make up all kinds of excuses for criminal behavior.
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  133. How about stop raising property taxes?
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  134. Translation: naive.
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  135.  @KathrynSrce3719  New York and California are 2 of the most high-demand states in the US.
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  136.  @frankmoon9350  And jack up the taxes.
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  137. Largely between Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro.
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  138. But no one price-gouges more than the government.
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  139. LOL. But if they insist on continuing to do drugs and refusing help just because they don't like the stipulations behind it, yes they do.
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  140.  @johnsmith-kc5hl  That's what you get for being loyal to Britain.
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  141. Rail lines are not practical in NWT due to permafrost.
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  142.  @CikisHelyzet  No. It's by abolishing the carbon and fuel taxes.
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  143. And Loblaws own many supermarket chains
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  144. <People need to get back to thinking about others before themselves again.> How about NO? This mentality is what has gotten Canada into trouble.
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  145.  @SaltedKillick  Caused by the clot shots.
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  146.  @Mostly_Harmless99  Doesn't matter. Dignity does not come from living off of money taken from others.
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  147. For what? Newcomers are not going to a place where they're not welcome or wanted.
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  148. Government policies enabled billionaire foreign investment as everyone else got priced and regulated out of the market leaving them to fill the void.
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  149. <what happened to compassion> Compassion has brought us this. Compassion has done nothing except enable and exacerbate the problem all because you're scared of taking a stand and appearing cruel.
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  150. Don't you just love socialism and leftist politics?
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  151. Due to feminism and the welfare state.
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  152. Exactly.
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  153.  @eletakelley7188  She can have visitors. Just not at all times of the day.
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  154.  @raynwolfsbane2084  They may not have chose to be there, but they definitely chose to stay there.
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  155. Well, doctors have bills to pay and mouths to feed. No sh-- it's about the money.
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  156. <And we need to pay them enough to make sure people want to go into these professions> It isn't just about the pay. It's also the ungodly amount of hours they to work and the treatment from the higher-ups they have to put up with. <There needs to be more staff. More nurses, more doctors.> The provincial medical school administrators and requirements stand in the way.
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  157. <I just want a place to live without having to move out with a partner earlier than intended, so many condos, so few pre 2018s> BS! There are plenty that were built before 2018. It's just that they're all occupied by those benefiting from rent control and already have a place.
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  158. So they're now saying that the 2 doses the government imposed on the population is not enough to protect them from the Virus as promised some 2-3 months ago? LOL.
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  159. <They should have a PST like every other province.> No they shouldn't. And for what? <Provinces like NB, Nova Scotia, PEI, Manitoba, and all three territories need more money for healthcare.> Because they're perennial have-not provinces that never seem to be going anywhere.
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  160. Both having left-wing governments in charge.
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  161. <Corporations and the wealthy have to pay their fair share of taxes.> They already do and then some unlike the bottom 50% with its measly 3%.
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  162. <its going to backfire and i hope we can all watch it> With entitled tenants paying the price in the end.
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  163.  @skelitonking117  What is Canadian culture? Its inferiority complex when comparing itself to the US.
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  164.  @dylanc9174  Actually yes it does. It works in Singapore.
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  165. And live like a person in Southside Chicago.
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  166. Exactly.
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  167. <I don't see prices in corner stores significantly better and people flocking to them.> Out of convenience. Corner stores are expensive because they can't afford to buy in bulk plus they don't have the space or customer volume to support lower pricing.
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  168. Apparently, Justin has outdone his step-father.
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  169. No foreign investors = stagnant economy.
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  170. And end up like Venezuela.
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  171.  @sorrywrongplanet8873  Because renters live on prime real estate. That's just the price to pay to live in the most desirable part of the city.
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  172. And so are most Canadians who voted for her government.
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  173.  @JeremyMacDonald1973  The government officially got out of housing in the 90's when Chretien took office.
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  174. Thanks to too many Liberal/NDP voters happily voting for their own displacement.
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  175.  @briangriffin5701  Not just that, but also lower taxes and higher overall pay.
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  176.  @lemondropkid6175  Too many Canadians living beyond their means.
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  177. And 89% is owned by the Crown.
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  178. <But all around the downtown, there's the Old Port, Griffintown, The Village, McGill Ghetto, Plateau Mont-Royal, Mile end, and few more further out from downtown. All these places are FILLED with these integrated plex houses, giving these neighbourhoods a cute, cozy, safe and walkable vib> Which also happen to be the most expensive places to live in Montreal. The most trendiest and/or gentrified areas.
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  179. <We need a Basic Income,> We already have that. It's called a steady paycheque.
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  180.  @anthonyamatruda5937  <Also try getting a better job.> Or get an SO and combine incomes.
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  181. The latter.
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  182. ​ @chillenlikeavillain  Because they can't do drugs or have random people in and out at just any time of the day.
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  183. Say what you will about the US's system, but at least you'll get timely healthcare.
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  184.  @thinkoutsidethebox4935  Amazon is ran by the left.
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  185.  @mathias8627  It keeps NGO's, charity orgs and other poverty pimps employed.
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  186. That's if they're even still Canadian-owned. At least in Quebec, some of the chains are locally-owned. Jean Coutu, Metro, Super C, Dollarama, etc.
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  187. Agreed. They chose to live out there. Let them live with the consequences of doing so.
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  188. At the expense of the country's long-term viability.
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  189.  @bresev8958  Thomas Sankara said something to that effect. He who feeds you owns you.
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  190. Same with employees at just about any fast-food chain.
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  191. With what money?
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  192. LOL @ NDP and good governance put in the same sentence.
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  193. Just like public housing.
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  194. Are you expecting the same government that caused the crisis to solve it? <hope govt someday wakes up and does the right thing to protect its citizens.> You mean expedient.
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  195.  @cadcad-jm3pf  <The problem is, everywhere in Canada is unaffordable.> No. Quebec, Montreal aside, doesn't have an affordability problem. The rea problem is people won't expand their horizons and consider living somewhere other than the GTA or Lower Mainland.
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  196. Inequality is natural.
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  197. Like conscription, eugenics and forced sterilizations?
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  198. <We also have Canadian culture.> We do? I thought Pierre Trudeau said Canada had no culture.
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  199. Deserve funding for what? Playing in a league that hardly anyone follows?
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  200. Rent control is part of the reason we have this crisis. Rent control = lack of availability.
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  201. Pretty much.
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  202.  @daverhoden445  Basic public services =/= socialism.
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  203. Which benefits Loblaws as Loblaws owns No Frills.
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  204.  @chrishardy8616  Or they hate Conservatives so much they would rather suffer under Liberal leadership.
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  205. Oil will never fully be a thing of the past as machines require it just so they can run properly without overheating.
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  206.  @Vrillin  They just want to be taken care of as if they're children.
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  207. Exactly. Especially if a good percentage are willing to pay higher prices and outbid the average local.
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  208. While socialism recognizes everything as right only to consistently have a problem with shortages, because it can't provide anything in an efficient or adequate manner.
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  209. Basic human need =/= basic human right. Since when did it become a basic human right to demand and force others against their will to provide for one's basic human need?
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  210. @The Secular Atheist <and we in Ontario won't be giving you a dime> As if you even have a dime to give. Didn't Ontario become a have-not province the last time the Liberals were in charge?
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  211. For what? They already have access to social assistance.
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  212.  @Astrologyt2343  But foreign students, migrants and refugees are exempt from the ban.
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  213.  @PricillaMaillet  Housing will never be affordable in the face of high building costs.
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  214. Live within their means? Get a roommate or SO?
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  215.  @cindy7lee  Only to elect another batch of corrupt politicians.
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  216. Plus, the places look little different than shacks in the average shantytown.
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  217. Abolish rent control as that enabled Air BnB's existence.
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  218. I didn't know that 8.5% made up the majority. By the way, percentage-wise, there are almost twice as many Canadians without a family doctor.
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  219. But it is a consequence of government meddling that made costly to build and own.
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  220. But they have a demographic crisis as there too many old people.
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  221.  @flywithme7  Especially with low-level job skills.
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  222. Inflation is caused by governments, not corporations.
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  223. <We can control diary (we already do to a GREAT EXTENT)> To the benefit of Quebec and Ontario farmers and the detriment of Canadian consumers.
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  224.  @jptrainor  <Canada's system is an anomaly. It's a political sacred cow here that resists all attempts at reform.> Exactly. Also the US's private system lives rent-free in most Canadians' minds.
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  225.  @yokiryuchan7655  LOL.
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  226. Because Canadians are too polite for that.
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  227. The only thing worse than a corporate monopoly is a state monopoly.
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  228.  @alanj9978  Exactly.
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  229. Like the average Cuban and North Korean.
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  230. Why are tenants so entitled and ignorant?
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  231. My brother was supposed to move out after 2021, but is still here at 41.
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  232.  @hyperceptional  Corporations actually employ people.
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  233.  @happygrandma4ruthP  Enabled by government greed.
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  234. Because housing is under the province and city's authority.
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  235.  @stratford374  <Everyone deserves a living wage. Whether you're working in hospitality, the trades or an office. Everyone deserves a wage that allows them thrive not just survive.> Not really. It's either up your skills or manage what you currently have better.
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  236. LOL. If you're making 60K a year and struggling, it's safe to say you're living beyond your means.
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  237. Yet Toronto's crisis still pales in comparison to Vancouver's which has rent control.
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  238.  @hungusthefungus3461  Plus the debt was paid off in 1947.
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  239. Housing is an investment if you truly care about you and your loved ones' future.
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  240. Nah. America actually taxes the rich. Canada taxes any attempt to get rich.
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  241. Except most Canadians are soft.
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  242. But the healthcare isn't much to write home about. And who told you that healthcare was free? It's paid for with high taxes.
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  243. Actually, Montreal is the most affordable major city in Canada.
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  244. Just like no one forced them to seek work in Canada in the first place.
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  245.  @ericyuan9718  And they're not suffering the after-effects of mass immigration like their neighbors.
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  246. And people with money just means people who are willing to pay the market price.
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  247. Toronto is 2nd to only Vancouver.
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  248.  @bonbonvegabon  And it accounts for a good portion of Canada's overall GDP.
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  249. And public housing takes double that.
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  250. LOL @ ethical. Since when did governments do anything ethical?
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  251.  @yxeaviationphotog  Rent control = Air BnB, renoviction and corporate ownership as they come to fill the void left behind by ordinary property-owners who got taxed and regulated out of the market. along with higher rent prices and lack of housing availability.
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  252.  @yxeaviationphotog  <Properties also wouldn't decay if they were better maintained by those landlords.> If the landlords were legally allowed to charge the amount necessary to cover the costs of maintenance. <rents are extraordinarily high in a lot of cases when they really don't need to be. > But they are due to taxes, interest, etc. being extraordinarily high.
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  253. By the government.
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  254. No. Jean Chretien did.
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  255. Exactly.
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  256.  @LANDBACKbyANYmeans  Not everywhere have food banks.
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  257. Not really. Toronto is a Liberal/NDP "paradise" regardless of the Mayor's or Premier's political leanings.
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  258. Common sense = discriminatory.
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  259. Strong and independent until access to social assistance is cut off.
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  260. But Canadian grocers charge 3x what their US counterparts charge.
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  261. Maybe not, but you have only yourself to blame for working 20 years making half the amount they made. You had more than enough time to get some better skills and land a better-paying job.
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  262. Be prepared to pay a living price.
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  263. Meh. Those families are irresponsible. Why can't they raise their own kids at their own expense?
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  264.  @deborhais  Neither are Trump-haters.
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  265. While rent control decreased housing supply.
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  266. Build shantytowns.
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  267. Until the shortages follow, that is.
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  268. Government meddling enabled more condo-building as it made other kinds of housing either costly or illegal to build. No one got greedy except the government.
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  269. Individuals have personal agency. So continue blaming them.
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  270.  @maxbolton5227  The average Canadian has a high household debt. Much of it due to living beyond his/her means.
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  271. Just like most other NGO's.
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  272. It's not their job to.
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  273. <Since the pandemic, nurses have left hospitals and clinics due to over working, no time off, short staffing, etc.> And vaccine mandates.
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  274.  @Kelseyveg  Depression is not a valid excuse for not keeping the place clean.
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  275. And Manitoba.
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  276.  @dee-annminer-evans  LOL. Like they stand for the working people in British Columbia?
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  277. And rightfully so like any self-respecting business.
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  278. Everyone want to live the big-city life but don't want to pay big-city prices.
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  279. It looks like her real problem is her own spending habits.
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  280. The legacy of British colonialism lives on.
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  281.  @CarFreeSegnitz  <Greedy landlords can say “go to the food bank” while jacking up the rent.> Partly due to greedy governments jacking up property and other taxes along with imposing burdensome regulations.
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  282. And in turn grant the government permission to have their way with you.
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  283.  sjtwstot  Fascism is a left-wing idea.
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  284. Higher minimum wage, yet is negated by higher living costs. And to top it off, most of Canada is no man's land between Toronto and Vancouver as its cities are too far away from each other.
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  285.  @sandystanley1237  For what? They're not responsible for Omicron.
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  286.  @annakoniarska1376  Rent control does not work especially in the long run.
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  287.  @adamhercia3243  It all started with Justin's father.
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  288. Governments do more to exacerbate rather than alleviate poverty.
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  289.  @gnarCR  Smaller stores are "unaffordable" because they can't afford to buy in bulk and they don't have the space.
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  290.  @helloitsme4139  <It’s time for people to open their doors and take in others> Starting with you.
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  291. <We need Stricter Rent Controls and dear I say, > And have even less housing on the market? LOL
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  292.  @AskWhyMoreOften  Aside from part-time workers, who is making 15-20K a year?
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  293. For what?
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  294. Justin Trudeau.
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  295.  @B.D.F.  Corporate greed enabled and facilitated by political greed. The poster is right in blaming Trudeau.
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  296.  @NileshKanani-yw9jg  It's just a Toronto and Vancouver issue.
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  297. Maybe when Canada has an economy that isn't 70% dependent on the US.
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  298.  @biniji9377  The poster is right. That's just the price to pay for the privilege of living in the city. Especially a city that happens to be popular.
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  299. Exempt them from paying any future taxes or refund all the taxes they paid since the pandemic started first.
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  300. And that's a good thing. Everyone has the right to be free to make as much as their skills/talent/luck/etc. will allow.
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  301. The utility sector is provincially-run.
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  302.  @brandanB80  While you can be Monica Lewinsky to Justin Trudeau's Bill Clinton.
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  303.  @firefox39693  But they're definitely in power in British Columbia, home of Canada's highest rent.
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  304. Because it was the boomers who laid the foundation for it.
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  305. Nope.
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  306. Rent controls don't work.
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  307. Exactly.
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  308.  @Sam19509  Trudeau is a trust-fund baby just like his step-father, Pierre was.
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  309. And then watch the poorest pee it all away going back to being broke and hungry by the end of the week.
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  310.  @TheRandCrews  Canadians themselves when comparing it to the US.
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  311. Rest in peace.
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  312. Due to high taxes and regulations.
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  313. Especially if they insist on living in the big city.
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  314. LOL. The average Canadian has less disposable income than the average American.
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  315.  @tusk3260  <Meanwhile in Canada the government is giving 2,500 dollars every month (worth about 2k in USD) to everyone who lost their jobs here in Canada no exception... The average american barely makes 1k per month> Which has to be paid back on your next income tax return.
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  316.  @John.F_Kennedy  That's just the price to pay for living in an area that isn't big enough to support more competition.
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  317. Not really. The more people age, the more outside care they're going to require.
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  318. LOL
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  319. Exactly.
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  320. Where shortages and rationing reign supreme!
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  321. If you're making $35/hour and still struggling, the problem is is most likely your spending habits.
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  322.  @lsophial  LOL. Government is the problem.
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  323.  @mzdrizzle  Not for as long as people insist on living in the big city and are willing/able to pay the higher rent prices.
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  324. <This is News, and politicians don't care or listen because they live in a bubble and cater to the elite who have money to control. > And the 68% of Canadians who own real estate.
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  325.  @TheTechnoPilot  <huge lack of regulation> Actually, Canada's market is OVER-regulated which enabled oligarchy to exist in the first place.
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  326.  @pinkyfloyd7712  Simple. Only 11% of Canadians make 6 figures a year to begin with.
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  327. LOL. Nothing is free.
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  328. Good luck with that as the hospital is most likely government-run.
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  329.  @garyhaggquist740  I think you misspelled socialism. Interesting how whenever socialism does adopt democracy, everything falls apart.
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  330.  @Tzimisce  What do high taxes and government over-regulation have to do with capitalism?
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  331.  @helloitsme4139  Maybe yours, but not everyone else's.
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  332. But they would have to see you in person to pull that off. Such is not need with digital transactions.
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  333. That's if they're willing to sacrifice life and limb literally.
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  334. <People who have less still deserve dignity.> They can earn it like everyone else.
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  335. Vancouver has limited land and nowhere else to expand.
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  336.  @meowmiaumiauw  But English Canada represented by Toronto and Vancouver is a product of the British-US way of doing things.
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  337. Doug Ford has no obligation to keep Kathleen Wynne's pet project going.
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  338. And the manager is from India.
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  339.  @JJs_playground  Yet one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. It makes sense because everyone only wants to live in the Quebec-Windsor corridor and the Lower Mainland.
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  340.  @TheAircool1  Canada wasn't in a recession in 2014. But Venezuela collapsed in 2014.
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  341. But America's jobs pay better and have lower living costs.
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  342. Quebec has more people than all of Western Canada combined excluding British Columbia.
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  343. Exactly.
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  344. Social democracy in practice.
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  345. Complacency.
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  346. It's TMU, because apparently Ryerson was too white for the wokie crowd.
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  347. Because a lot of Canada's current GDP is based on real estate. Canada needs to close its borders.
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  348. Because their policies are the reason for the rising food costs in the first place.
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  349.  @ElenaKomleva  <pointing out the problem?> That she wants someone else to solve.
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  350.  @PinkyHYNg  Not Hong Kong.
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  351. No. We are getting screwed over by high taxes and bureaucracy. And UBI will not people afford food unless you don't mind dealing with a worthless currency or chronic food shortages.
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  352. But they have the anarchy anarchists advocate.
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  353. You have only Carbon Tax to thank for that.
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  354. Which can only lead to shortages due to them taking maternity leave, working less hours in favor of more personal time for themselves or children, retiring from the profession to become SAHMs.
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  355. New York = world financial center. San Francisco = close proximity to Big Tech.
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  356. But purchasing power is higher in the US.
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  357. Canada already has Whole Foods.
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  358. Which would be?
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  359.  @ITforeveryone  To some, that's better than ending up dead because they couldn't get simple healthcare at all especially in a timely manner.
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  360. And sanctimonious, naive voters.
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  361. No. Renovictions are a response to government meddling in the landlord's ability to evict a bad tenant in a timely manner.
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  362. <SHAME ON YOU CANADIAN GOVERNMENT for not looking after your seniors.> How so? It never was nor should have ever been the government's job to look after the elderly. Elderly and child care are the responsibility of the family.
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  363.  @milhouse8166  Pay is the least of their issues as many will blow it on getting wasted.
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  364.  @person-yu8cu  Thanks to city government restrictions.
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  365. Air BnB is the consequence of rent control.
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  366. Haiti was Somalia before Somalia.
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  367. <It;s crazy how low it has to be before you can get help. > Well, this is how social programs enable and further perpetuate poverty.
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  368.  @anishnaabehistorypodcast7215  We don't need rent control. We need immigration control. Landlords and developers are not the problem. The federal government and its out of control immigration policies are.
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  369. He's probably a CCP stooge.
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  370.  @piku5637  And end up like: USSR North Korea China Vietnam Mongolia Ethiopia Madagascar Benin Angola Burkina Faso Zimbabwe Venezuela Cuba Guyana Hungary Yugoslavia East Germany Romania Bulgaria Poland Burma Equatorial Guinea Laos Somalia Ghana Czechoslovakia Nicaragua
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  371. <have wealthy people/corporations pay their fair share of taxes> They already do an then some accounting for at least 70% of all taxes paid.
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  372. No. Reproduce or get replaced.
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  373. What Albertans? Since when did Edmonton speak for Alberta?
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  374. How about abolish income tax as after all, it was supposed to be temporary?
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  375. And lower property taxes.
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  376. (Wealth) Inequality is a natural consequence of economic and personal freedom. Sorry, we can't earn the same.
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  377. Nunavut is because everything has to be flown in. Toronto is because it is Canada's financial capital and the people have more money to throw around.
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  378. This is intentional.
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  379. Not a viable option for a lot of city folks.
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  380.  @GayStationB  It is true. <Cost of living has outpaced wage increases, and a lot of people work 2-3 jobs just to scrape by.> Just a small price to pay to live in the big city.
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  381. No. Rent control doesn't work. I live in Quebec and the last thing Quebec needs is more unions.
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  382. Yet in spite of all that, people still insist on living beyond their means. <Why don't you report that people get paid less than what it costs to live. > Not before they report on how the CAD isn't worth as much as it once was. The real issue is not people getting paid less, but the money they're paid in being worth less.
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  383. Big electricity is provincially-owned and run.
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  384. Because Iran has little on China who has the world by the pair.
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  385.  @wewantmoreboomboom8313  <but overall less allowing of the developpers to propose rezoning to produce ultra high dense buidlings.> Developers are not the ones proposing rezoning to build ultra-high density buildings. This is what current local zoning laws allow. And luxury condos are the only housing allowed to be built within city limits that have a decent ROI.
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  386. Because thanks to government meddling, that's more worthwhile than renting to bad tenants they can't legally evict in a timely manner.
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  387. Along with the federal Liberals and NDPers.
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  388.  @ramzanninety-five3639  Co-ops are not that financially sustainable without government subsidies.
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  389.  @kelpforest0068  But the US's health care system is better funded, staffed and supplied.
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  390. But the waiting list for co-op housing is just about as long as that for public housing.
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  391. For what? So they can trash it?
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  392. How about no? Since when was it a basic human right to force others to provide for you for free?
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  393.  @sqae8398  The inevitable consequence of government mismanagement.
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  394. And ensured that Manitoba will be Canada's Greece and Venezuela.
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  395. Like Ceausescu did with Romania. And its debt was due to the building of the Palace, his vanity project.
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  396. One problem, though. Collectivist societies like Iran don not value or believe in individual freedom.
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  397. Namely that of the government with the carbon and fuel tax.
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  398. No. Government meddling is.
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  399. Because the government made them costly.
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  400. It worked for Venezuela. LOL
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  401. Our government caused this. They're only helping Canadians fall deeper in debt and poverty.
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  402. <In my opinion, GREEDY rental companies and landlords are to blame because they set the prices. > In response to rising interest rates, taxes, maintenance and repair costs, etc.
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  403. <and the government will do zip.> Except tax you more.
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  404.  @chinaarlene7035  First get rid of the rent control and bureaucracy that taxed and regulated the mom-and-pop owners out of the market in favor of those entities who can afford to put up with the government's BS.
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  405. And Costco, and all the big-time supermarket chains, etc.
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  406. <Why is it that tiny homes are not acceptable if this indeed a housing issue?> Zoning restrictions.
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  407. I lost a female friend of 12 years to Fentanyl just last month. Condolences. I would plead the same thing. Stay away from drugs at all costs.
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  408. But NY has way more opportunities to justify its high rent.
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  409. Well, if you want socialism, you can just go visit Regent Park and Swansea Mews.
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  410. @Winston Smith Especially the federal, provincial and city government.
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  411. If you're making 6 figures and struggling, that's on you. Most likely living beyond your means.
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  412.  @cindyhaduik7171  Also Harper introduced the CWB and the Public Transit (non-refundable) credit. My biggest tax refunds came with Harper in charge.
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  413.  @tntcanada420  But Liberal/NDP British Columbia stands alone above all.
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  414. The Premier is not the city Fire Chief that called for the dismantling.
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  415.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  Nah. Canada and the US will be more like the old USSR.
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  416.  @trevorhamilton9574  Like what Venezuela had?
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  417.  @trevorhamilton9574  Only to be greeted with empty store shelves and a currency good for being toilet paper.
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  418.  @huikify  Or even Hong Kong. Rent control couldn't stop it from boasting the world' highest rent.
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  419. Higher taxes = higher overall prices as the costs are passed down to the end consumer.
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  420.  @vikvc  Ottawa has way more open space while Montreal is coinfined to an island.
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  421.  @ThisisAlexsCorner  Yeah! Equality of poverty and misery while the government live like kings.
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  422. Not Montreal.
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  423.  @helloitsme4139  <This is very common in many other areas around the world,> Namely places with overcrowding problems. <we need this in Canada> No we don't. What Canada needs is to close the borders.
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  424. How can they in face of rising property taxes, insurance premiums, repair and maintenance costs, etc.? High demand and low supply due to government policy are the real reasons for the high prices.
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  425. Ditto for China.
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  426. Nope. Government meddling.
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  427. But most of it's not arable or inhabitable.
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  428. How about doing the same for government greed, the real cause of the price increases in necessities?
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  429.  @billhacks  It always has been a case of who you know. Social networking matters plenty.
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  430. Liberals and corruption go hand in hand.
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  431. Corporate ownership is the result of government making housing too costly to build and own with corporations being among the only entities that can afford to.
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  432. Liberty and equality are enemies of each other.
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  433. Rent caps do not work. As a matter of fact, they enabled short-term renting, renovictions and corporate ownership.
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  434. Not really. Supply restrictions by the government is largely the reason.
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  435. Who knew that EV's don't work in extreme cold?
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  436. Not everywhere is $2600 a month for rent.
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  437.  @ericlavoie399  All paid for by Canadian taxpayers.
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  438.  @radscorpion8  <"socialist" healthcare is how the majority of the world run healthcare.> Yet the countries with the best overall healthcare have both private and public.
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  439.  @Jayjay-ji7ty  But everyone wants to be a white-collar worker or get paid like one.
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  440. Kind of like the Quebec provincial government.
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  441. 1. Canada is anything but overpopulated.
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  442. Started by Justin's father.
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  443. But the US has affordable options.
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  444. Not really. This has been going on well before even Jesus's time.
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  445. What about city housing?
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  446.  @sl1237  No. the ever-deluded government and their eco-fascist cheerleaders.
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  447. The US.
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  448.  @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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  449.  @nuxkamina  <but tax rates were far higher in the 1950's.> Yet few people paid such rates and were eventually done away with.
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  450. <Accommodation in Montreal is affordable with some of the lowest cost of living expenses in the country.> But that's negated by lower salaries and higher taxes.
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  451.  @sexygeek8996  At least NYC has finance among other thriving industries to justify its high rents.
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  452.  @bramptonjeff81  Socialism doesn't work. And many of the countries that adopted it only started running into problems as soon as they "ran out of other people's money" to supplement local industry their own policies decimated. The sanctions are of little consequence.
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  453.  @bramptonjeff81  Mongolia, Tanzania, Yugoslavia, Somalia, India, etc.
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  454. When Zellers was around, it was the closest store to my house which was just up the street. The nearest Walmart was several Metro stops away.
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  455.  @VandaPietrantonio  Or OD'd.
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  456. Of the 10 most expensive places to live in Canada, all 10 of them are located in the GTA and Lower Mainland.
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  457.  @asad5067  And now the UK is paying dearly for it.
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  458.  @demisavage77  But so far it hasn't. BC has rent control yet its housing crisis is even worse than Ontario's.
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  459. No. The only thing wrong here is people expecting doctors to provide top-tier care for peanuts.
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  460.  @eletakelley7188  LOL.
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  461.  @eletakelley7188  That only applies to housing built from 2018 to present. <What Harris did to health care, seniors housing and hydro,> You must have forgotten ho Rae left Ontario bankrupt by the time he was finally voted out. Plus, that was Ontario's first formal experience with rent control. Near 0% vacancy rates, no new housing built, people unable to find housing, etc.
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  462.  @julesk1567  There's plenty of incentive. To cover that windfall tax for starters.
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  463. LOL. Like Afghanistan, North Korea and Mongolia?
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  464. Where hardly anyone rents and there are no (white-collar) jobs.
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  465.  @portpass1974  <That's not caused by "red tape," it's caused by labour shortages in those specific areas.> Due to the government indirectly discouraging people from taking up skilled trades. <There's more building and construction than ever before in the GTA, at breakneck speed.> Mostly condos.
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  466. Thanks to bureaucracy and high costs, those are among the only entities that can afford to build and own property.
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  467. At least for an hour.
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  468.  @simpletown323  Especially when some of the less fortunate brought it upon themselves.
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  469.  @natasha5822  Pretty much.
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  470. <on CPP.> Here's one of your problems. And why anyone young and working need to save and invest for their own retirement.
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  471. <Only provincial and municipalities can override these self interests> But NIMBY's are far from a small minority and it's their tax money that's keeping both the provincial and municipal governments afloat.
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  472.  @potatopotato8360  Socialism is even more dependent on infinite resources and cash flow than capitalism is on infinite growth.
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  473. With what money and whose labor?
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  474.  @curtisw0234  The government made it unviable through bureaucracy.
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  475.  @bogeybichon7000  Pretty much.
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  476. You're free to find housing that was built before 2018 as there are plenty to go around.
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  477.  @juki3451  Those who make minimum wage are the exception, not the norm. Plus, the units costing $2600/month wasn't meant for that crowd anyway.
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  478. Because they have a fixed address albeit not their own.
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  479. Harper was right in denying clemency to Canadians who get into trouble abroad due to their own stupidity and ignorance.
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  480. It figures. She works in an industry not subject to lockdowns or economic downturns. Don't you just love the pubic/government sector?
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  481. Didn't they already do that in 2020?
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  482.  @continentalmasters5432  But to most, it's either the big city or bust.
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  483. Because it's illegal to discipline a kid.
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  484. Due to government meddling that made rentals too costly to build and maintain.
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  485. Drugs claimed one of my female friends just last month. RIP, Michelle.
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  486. And what is affordable housing is either taxpayper-subisidized or ghetto.
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  487.  @bbfloors1903  With only big business being around.
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  488. This is on the province since they're in charge of healthcare.
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  489. <If there's not enough places for native Canadians why is the Gov letting in immigrants?> To consolidate more power for the Liberal Party and the federal government in general displacing native Canadians in the process. Gerrymandering, left-wing style.
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  490. Isn't Saudi Arabia also a member?
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  491.  @aman888  Pretty much.
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  492. People who can actually budget? Yeah I know! Living within your means is a foreign concept in Canada.
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  493.  @danc1513  And end up in crippling debt anyway when compounded with household debt.
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  494. <We are all victims of their lack of responsibility.> No. We're all complicit if we voted for them.
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  495. Unless your job allows you to work from home.
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  496.  @diannefitzmaurice9813  Price controls = shortages and higher costs for whatever's left.
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  497. LOL. Taxing the rich only hurts the poor in the end.
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  498. Because he fears for his job.
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  499. Canada in general is not a place you'd want to be homeless in.
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  500. Feminism and Marxism.
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  501. Housing is not a right.
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  502.  @595million9  Pretty much.
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  503. Who's no one? It's just old-stock Canadians doin that.
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  504.  @krunkle5136  Namely Japan, China and South Korea.
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  505.  @piku5637  How about a better idea? Why don't the working class pool up their money and start their own business? Companies have no obligation to keep people employed indefinitely even in the midst of a downturn in fortunes.
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  506. Define reasonable.
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  507. And you certainly cannot expect lower prices when you don't have the population and density to warrant it.
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  508. Doctors don't have as much clout as you think.
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  509. What are San Francisco and New York's excuses? Both have rent control, yet their housing crises are the worst of the worst in the US.
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  510. For what? Bob Rae's rent control caused a major housing shortage.
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  511.  @Sam19509  But thanks to Justin's step-daddy, they're not allowed to move out of Montreal.
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  512. Especially if you live in the big city.
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  513. China alleviated nothing.
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  514. <You can also use Singapores rental model. Controlled by the government and offer 99 year term leases. It made the country extremely prosperous.> Not really. Canada is not an uber-autocracy with limited land like Singapore.
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  515. And get your finances in order.
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  516. @N Birthed and raised by immature, selfish, entitled and know-it-all boomers.
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  517. Pretty much.
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  518. Due to not having the skills or smarts to command a better-paying position.
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  519. What world? Housing is not a major issue in North Korea or Cuba or China.
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  520. They haven't refused to. It's just that all the regulating actually enabled corporate oligopoly by pricing and regulating the competition foreign and domestic alike out.
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  521. Just like how it have never been more than to make people lazy, dependent and irresponsible.
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  522. Starting with the government and then with Canadians themselves since after all Canada has the world's highest household debt.
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  523. Not everyone lives in a detached house. Especially in the cities.
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  524. LOL. Did it solve Venezuela's societal problems?
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  525. But athletes and entertainers have shorter career spans than teachers. At least teachers will still have a job in 10 years while many athletes and entertainers will be out of the industry by year 5 due to injuries or lack of productivity/relevance.
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  526. <Where are governments on this issue???> Collecting revenue from the high rents and housing prices their polices enabled.
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  527.  @Forestdwellr  No we don't. And Canada is barely free-market anymore. Government meddling created this housing crisis.
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  528. Hmm. Let me see. The country embraced Marxism and everything associated with it including feminism.
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  529. <We are a family that makes 130k a year and we still find it hard to live> You're living beyond your means. And welcome to the 11% club as one one of a handful of Canadians making 6 figures a year.
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  530. Pretty much.
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  531. Like what?
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  532. <What happen is that government stop building affordable homes> Which is probably a good thing as those are crime and decay-ridden cesspools.
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  533. A product of Justin's father's legacy.
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  534. At who's expense?
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  535.  @308Fibreglass-hl2on  But 89% of it is owned by the Crown and off-limits to any development.
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  536. <If Toronto citizens move to our cities our rents will go up> Just ask Halifax.
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  537. Australia already did that and its housing crisis is every bit as bad as Canada's along with being 3rd in homelessness per capita among developed countries.
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  538. Better question: how is it fair that money is taken from your working neighbor to subsidize your dental care and electricity?
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  539. Because rent control enabled short-term renting, renovictions and corporate ownership.
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  540.  @doncorleone2713  <"Hard to house", that means through drug addiction or mental illness they cannot function in domestic environments. > Or just plain old immaturity.
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  541.  @ahmunmun725  There really isn't much to know.
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  542. Maybe, but it still wouldn't make much of a difference due to shipping and transport costs.
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  543.  @junioruncle4378  LOL.
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  544. Are you willing to pay living prices for your goods to compensate?
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  545. Or Manitoba.
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  546. Not before property tax, mortgage, repair and maintenance cost increases, etc. are made criminal.
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  547. Tradesman = high chance of getting injured or killed on the job.
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  548. No political will, because most politicians and their voter base are property-owners. And there will be hell to pay if property values are messed with. <most people need affordable appartements before they end up on the street,> Namely those who live in the big cities or some other desirable locales.
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  549. Enabled by the government.
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  550. Meh. Those students are from the upper class of their home countries. They can afford the "unfair" tuition.
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  551. It figures. The Bahamas is a small island and doesn't produce much.
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  552. Socialism is not it, though.
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  553. And how has rent control worked out for BC so far?
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  554.  @CnekYT  <Why were nearly ALL cities built before 1948 a 15-minute-city; > Which suffered from overcrowding, disease outbreaks, fires, etc.?
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  555. No. The problem is socialism. The housing market is more over-regulated than you think.
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  556. That's 11 hours and change per day.
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  557. <Thank the Lord they do, so we can get our Ice Capps and burgers and fries.> At lower prices, because you're not prepared to pay higher prices had you been served by Canadians.
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  558. Pierrefonds-Roxboro is now part of Montreal city limits.
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  559. LOL. Shantytowns.
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  560. And you shoppers will be paying for it in the end in the form of higher prices or less availability.
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  561.  @fleecystheking  Taxes are higher in Quebec as well.
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  562. The real problem is the government's tax-and-(over)spend policies.
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  563.  @o1ecypher  Right.
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  564.  @ossi3925  High rent is just the price to pay to live in the big city.
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  565. Those who have family there.
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  566. No. The prices went up because of government intervention. Taxes, (over)regulation and inflation.
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  567. You mean more Regent Parks?
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  568.  @mrfake675  The outskirts. That's how France does it.
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  569.  @shawnosborne163  <Imagine is if was functioning by and on behalf of the people.> Canada would all but completely be in the same boat as Argentina unable to make any much-needed reforms because the government fear riots, unrest and ouster.
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  570. LOL. By pricing other low-skilled workers out of the job market, putting smaller businesses out of business while doing big business a favor, jacking up the COL to support said $22/hour minimum wage, etc.
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  571. And only the poor are around.
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  572.  @bonbonvegabon  No amenities, no services or social support networks, etc. personal vehicle required, etc.
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  573. No. The problem is government meddling.
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  574.  @LittleMissStamper  <my landlord sold it out from under us and illegally evicted us..> Actually it's legal for landlords to evict tenants upon repossession of property.
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  575.  @mikero8974  Only for inflation to raise prices accordingly.
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  576. Or replace you as the main voting demographic.
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  577. In the US, he would be called a RINO.
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  578. It's done at the municipal level already.
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  579. This is what the left mean by "tax the rich."
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  580.  @maryrankin9869  They probably no longer want anything to do with them due to being screwed over one too many times.
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  581.  @lomiification  What lack of governance? Canada's housing market is over-regulated and only the richest of the rich can afford to put with the government's BS to get anything built.
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  582. Except the average NYCer makes more than the average Canadian.
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  583.  @basicinfo2022  In the name of abolishing private property.
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  584.  @Alex-ym5ox  Not nearly as much as they want to cover their butts in case they get fined or shut down.
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  585. I presume you're an NDP voter.
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  586. Exactly. Shortages of funding, staff, basic equipment and supplies, etc.
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  587. Not really. Affordable housing = run-down slums, long waiting lists, high crime, government-owned. <How about landlords who want to renovate and give you a 90 day notice to vacate, telling you that you can move back after the renovation neglecting to tell you the rent will be 30% higher??????> That is to cover the renovation costs.
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  588. If only likewise its employees could accept a smaller paycheque.
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  589.  @CarFreeSegnitz  <The private sector isn’t going to fix this. Why would they? Developers and landlords are making bank and will continue to do so by NOT building enough stock.> Thanks to local zoning restrictions and NIMBY's so to keep land and property values high. Municipal government is also making bank from property taxes and bureaucracy.
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  590.  @trailblazer3889  Socialism = state monopoly.
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  591.  @just-a-generic-username  Poverty does exist. It's just that skids like the guy in the video are the main characters behind it. Most of everything else is just a side-effect.
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  592. And put more useless people, OOPS! I mean administrators on the payroll.
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  593. They had Papa and Baby Doc.
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  594. LOL. There's a reason why flophouses stopped being a thing a long time ago.
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  595.  @bradcanning875  Yet no one went homeless or struggled to find housing under Harper.
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  596. How could he in the face of rising property taxes, insurance premiums, mortgages, etc.?
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  597.  @DAndyLord  <Our PM is a former teacher. > And son of a trust-fund baby turned PM.
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  598. Are foreigners even allowed to buy property in Haiti?
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  599. Minimum wage is for kids and foreigners.
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  600.  @steventalik4782  With Kathleen Wynne in charge.
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  601.  @CHodgy  You hate the truth about those people more than the poster does the people themselves.
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  602. There's nothing stopping you from taking the least among you in.
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  603. <This is what we get for heavily depending on grocery stores > That's the price to pay to pay to live in the city. <it's that none of us can afford a spec of land to farm on> And if you could, most of us can't farm for squat rendering the land useless. <This country only cares about one thing - helping rich landlords get richer. THIS is the crux of all our problems.> No. The real problem is that most of us are dependent on the cities for our livelihoods. Most landlords are not that rich to begin with.
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  604. <Private developers won’t do it, they make more by building less.> And they build less, because the city limits what they can build and where.
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  605.  @jamescollinscares3897  .<but its our governments responsibility to look after our citizens> And this is where society f---ed up.
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  606.  @vmitchinson  Most services are just make-work jobs.
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  607. The same easily frightened ignorant masses?
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  608.  @infantebenji  It also applies to the federal government as most politicians and civil servants are property-owners.
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  609. Maybe, but they're still privileges.
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  610.  @wildwolfzonerwolfe6966  They were in no position to.
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  611.  @virtuitousvampire9371  But you're free to rent an apartment that was built before 2018 as it's still under rent control.
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  612. Toronto >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just about everywhere else in Canada.
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  613. Harper wasn't in office in the mid-90's. But Chretien was. And divesting from affordable housing was one of the first things he did when he took over.
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  614. Nah. Much of it goes toward a bloated bureaucracy that even the most bluest of Blue States wouldn't tolerate.
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  615. Who's everyone? You and your social circle?
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  616. Rent control exacerbated the problem with people struggling to finding housing even if they can afford the higher rents due to the lack of availability.
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  617.  @2bRealist  Less responsibilities.
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  618. So is envy.
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  619.  Mr.BumTickler  Not in Quebec.
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  620. That would be 66% of Canadians.
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  621.  @ijustwanttosleepnow  LOL. No.
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  622. It is. But this is more a municipal issue than a provincial one. And the NDP are in charge of Edmonton.
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  623. Because rent control and tenants' right enabled all of that.
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  624.  @cin4195  They're actually underpaid, especially in Quebec.
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  625.  @made2blaze  I'm a Gen-Xer.
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  626.  @Adam.Langton  It is a good reason. Even poor people don't want to live around other poor people. That's why they save up or get a decent-paying job so they can afford to live somewhere better.
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  627. While workers refuse to abstain from spending on their wants.
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  628.  @Tribuneoftheplebs  Because they haven't been taxed or regulated into non-viability.
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  629.  @Toto-cl8rw  Some of the downtrodden brought it upon themselves.
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  630.  @mackenzie9865  Not according to the homelessness per capita rate among developed countries. Canada is in the top 10. The US is not.
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  631. How about allowing more medium-density housing to be built?
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  632. Exactly.
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  633. It all started with Alison Redford.
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  634. My Acer desktop is about 10 years old and still running.
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  635. Too bad that loaf of bread might be expired.
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  636. $459 100.
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  637. How about no?
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  638.  Lady Day  Her father is multi-racial Jamaican, not Black.
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  639. Don't hold your breath.
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  640. Housing is not a right. No one is owed or obligated to provide it.
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  641.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  <upscale condos only.> Condos = tax revenue as condo-owners pay taxes like regular home-owners do.
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  642. You have only your lax immigration laws and Pierre Trudeau to thank for that.
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  643. And end up like British Columbia with the country's highest rent?
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  644. Maybe, but this is not it. They took the job by choice.
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  645. LOL
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  646. Landlords made this country. The French settlers had their seigneurie system going.
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  647. Wealth inequality is natural. Most people cannot manage what they have for squat.
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  648. <I was scared and nobody would give me a seat.> Because they didn't have to.
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  649.  @HuplesCat  Tankie, please! Socialists were never known for being competent at running an economy.
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  650. Exactly.
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  651. Yet no one has lost their house or savings in Quebec after that 2005 SCC ruling which allowed people to seek and opt for private healthcare.
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  652. Only to the ignorant.
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  653. Administration. Government-appointed.
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  654.  @doreenchiasson2878  If you vote Liberal, you vote for diversity as part of the package.
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  655.  @666dynomax  The prices didn't suck. The selection did. Even Zellers had better selection.
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  656.  @JaiAcuneIdeeQuoiMettreIci  LOL. At who's expense?
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  657.  @Lorenzo1972.  Also keep the borders open and overcrowd the cities even further.
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  658. Lax immigration laws.
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  659. <Liberals are their finest, destroying middle class.> Making Karl Marx proud.
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  660. <Corporations never lower consumer costs> Neither do governments.
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  661. There's barely any free trade in within Canada as it's much easier to do business with a foreign country than a neighboring province.
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  662.  @mr.centrist5789  Only the Blue States.
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  663. The safety of administration positions and salaries.
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  664. There hardly anything capitalist about government over-regulation that enables and encourages oligopoly.
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  665. Due to its close proximity to Toronto.
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  666. Neither do not-so-rich people.
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  667. Your opinion with prejudice. Rent is high because property taxes are high. Mortgage and interest are high. Utility costs are high. Maintenance and repair costs are high. Land values are high. And so is demand exacerbated by mass immigration.
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  668. Thanks to government over-regulation. They're just filling in for the mom and pop property-owners rent control and tenants' rights forced out of the market.
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  669. Canada = Argentina for English-speakers.
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  670. No they shouldn't as the only things that will ensure are mismanagement and shortages.
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  671.  @enfelice  Who's we? And what's with this hive mindset?
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  672.  @TheAircool1  But North America is not Europe.
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  673. Or state monopolies. Many of the major businesses in China are owned and operated by Party elites and stooges.
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  674. <$200 in groceries does not go far at all.> Unless you're single with no kids/dependents.
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  675. There is work. It's just that you're going to have to swallow your pride and make the most of what you're given.
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  676. Like a lot of public/government-sector workers.
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  677. <Food Basics> A chain owned by Metro.
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  678. @HighTide USWNT = superior team in an inferior league. USMNT = inferior team in a superior league.
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  679. Only 4% of Quebecers make that much. And the striking workers are not part of that crowd.
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  680. Governments benefit from the property tax revenue.
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  681. Nope. Government meddling.
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  682. Bringing Venezuela to Canada.
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  683. While the people happily let them.
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  684. Because those are the only kinds of housing with a decent ROI that can be built given the zoning restrictions.
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  685. <Poilievre voted 3X against building affordable & low income housing - voted 2X against minimum wage increases - and voted against dental care for children from low income families when he himself has had taxpayer funded dental care for 19+ years! What kind of a leader does that?> A leader who understands basic economics.
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  686. Australia already has that and also cost-of-living issues.
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  687. The university formerly known as Ryerson.
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  688. Or you lower prices and have to sell more just to break even and constantly running out of supply.
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  689. Well, over-regulation brought about housing shortages and anyone seeking housing being SOL.
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  690. While some tenants exhibit pure entitlement.
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  691.  @mallowmallow2070  But it is the tenant's fault if they can't get their finances in order enough to pay the rent being charged.
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  692. Exactly.
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  693. Rent control and other forms of government meddling made apartments and rentals non-viable.
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  694.  @zwicker5585  And renters have no right to complain about housing shortages and corporate investment.
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  695.  @good-tn9sr  Permanent residency.
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  696.  @yerabbit  Which benefited no one except existing renters.
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  697.  @on2thenextthing  Plus entitlement and pride.
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  698. No. They should cut taxes for everyone across the board.
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  699.  @flomo7382  While through taxes, they jack up the living costs on everyone else.
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  700. Agreed.
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  701. She's not that poor.
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  702. They have little incentive to do better as healthcare in Canada is by and large a state monopoly.
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  703. And lock out new renters from the market.
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  704.  GoldenShower Potato  But the animal rights groups would throw a fit.
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  705. And end up with housing shortages and a bankrupt economy like it had in the early 1990's the last time the NDP ruled.
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  706.  @bradcanning875  Which means someone can afford the prices.
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  707.  @peterfets4799  And they're government-protected.
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  708.  @lordflick895  And the people mismanage them to ruin due to their lack of expertise resulting in production declines, shortages and eventual famine as were the cases of the USSR, China, Cambodia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, etc.?
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  709.  @Kurtos25  Next year.
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  710. Politics.
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  711. Or the item you're trying to buy is not available.
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  712.  @uchennanwogu2142  And consistently vote Liberal.
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  713. KD Lang, Justin Bieber, Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, etc.
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  714. LOL.
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  715. Does that include Justin Trudeau and gang?
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  716. No Frills is owned by Loblaws.
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  717. While regular people think their entitled to live on property that does not belong to them and the lifestyle in the big cities on relatively meager salaries.
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  718. She's an anchor-baby who spent her high school years in Canada due to her mother not wanting her around African-Americans.
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  719. <Unbridled immigration,> Thanks to Pierre Trudeau and the federal Liberals.
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  720. Are you ready to do an about-face on women's rights?
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  721. And public-sector workers.
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  722. <Trudeau's soul sister Jacinda from NZ stepped down after covid because of bad NZ economy > But at least she had enough sense to close the border and prevent mass immigration.
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  723.  ꧁Cat G꧂  <to the anti vaxers are destroying our children's mental health> I didn't know anti-vaxxers were in any position to travel.
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  724. Like what Venezuela once did under Chavez?
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  725. Montreal already has that and so far, most developers don't bother.
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  726. LOL. At the expense of privacy and personal peace. Not worth it. What you're suggesting is only great for freeloaders and troublemakers.
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  727. At least San Francisco has Silicon Valley to justify its high prices.
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  728.  @CanadianEhHole  OUCH! Long live Thomas Sowell.
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  729. But of mediocre at best quality.
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  730. Define rich. Because in Mao-era China, an ordinary shopkeeper was considered rich.
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  731. But you're not ready for China/Singapore/Gulf state-styled justice.
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  732.  @enjoylife780  <Not parasitic landlords who only care about $$ in their pockets.> They're not a charity and they have bills to pay like everyone else.
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  733. Just ask Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
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  734. @@CD-nd3nk As in too many people only wanting to live in Toronto and Vancouver.
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  735. Respect is earned, not owed.
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  736. <Our government can do more to help Canadians especially in this challenging time.> Cut the taxes, restrictions and its current size. That's how they can help Canadians.
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  737.  @DAndyLord  Society is gynocentric like that.
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  738. Rent freeze is part of the reason for the housing crisis. Rent freeze = less housing available and good luck on finding housing if you're looking.
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  739.  @fallenlizardbrain6893  What about West Virginia?
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  740.  @jofloresz  Or Washington.
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  741. That's because Canada is oversized and underpopulated. It doesn't have the enough people to support what the US have. And the people live too far apart from each other to make shipping and transport costs and in turn the goods cheaper.
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  742. That's not saying much. Hardly anyone make minimum wage.
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  743.  @pugfugly1989  Delusional much?
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  744.  @AZ-bp5zo  And become landlords by default.
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  745. No. Try Montreal.
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  746. But Canadians have less disposable income.
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  747. The only greed going on here is that of the current Liberal government.
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  748. Just what Canada needs. More bureaucracy. And by the way, foreign students are legally allowed to buy property as they are exempt from the ban.
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  749. Because local students are in no position to pay the amount necessary to keep the colleges afloat.
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  750. How about a better idea? Allow landlords to evict bad tenants in a timely manner and make long-term renting viable again?
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  751. LOL.
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  752. Pretty much.
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  753. Old money wealth like Justin Trudeau?
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  754. LOL.
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  755. <They want the students high tuition money because they pay more.> Because their tuition is not subsidized like the local students.
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  756. No we wouldn't. Not in Japan. Or Switzerland. Or Venezuela.
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  757.  @DigitalDividendDollar  You may not be but a lot of people are which is who the market is catering to.
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  758. Victoria is expensive. And most of the rest of the places you named are not that desirable and have fewer jobs and amenities to offer.
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  759.  @jameskenneth  Say what you will about communists, but at least they have enough sense to keep the borders closed.
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  760. Exactly.
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  761. How exactly? I say the geography screwed over the people of Iqaluit far more than the Federal government did.
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  762. Evil governments.
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  763.  @riasat001  For what? First lower the property taxes and insurance premiums.
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  764. Only to end up in legal trouble if that expired food leads to something getting sick or dying.
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  765. So does socialism.
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  766. Namely the government.
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  767.  @SARugby1  All products of government intervention.
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  768. Yet its housing problem isn't nearly as bad its neighbor to the West that has rent control.
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  769.  @marcelcharette265  <Now run along and find someone to look down upon.> Why don't you run along and find someone to virtue-signal for?
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  770. And less service if any at all.
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  771. But who's going to pay for maintenance?
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  772.  @TheeDudee  No thanks. And how exactly can you build an automated pipeline hyperloop under the Hudson Strait?
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  773. Promising paradise on Earth without any sustainable means of paying for it.
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  774.  @iorr98  But with socialism, the retirement system is unsustainable.
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  775.  @lantherpagdi  Agreed.
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  776.  @takeadayofff  But the climate and geography makes it costly if not impossible.
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  777. India really must be that bad.
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  778. Because they're not sustainable albeit popular. And leftists care about what's popular, economic viability and sustainability be damned!
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  779. Canada is oversized and underpopulated with the major cities being too far away from each other. Trade barriers within Canada. It's much easier and cheaper for a province to trade with a foreign country than a neighboring province.
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  780. With money taxed from their neighbors.
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  781. It is transportation. The North is far more remote and harder to get to than Cambodia.
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  782.  @FullCircleTravis  So is rural living. Not everyone can or needs to farm. Plus, there is only so much arable land to go around.
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  783.  @FullCircleTravis  Like how? Do like Pol Pot did with Cambodia?
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  784. It does, but it varies by province. Quebecers have Videotron. The Prairies have Shaw.
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  785. Like you are thinking you're entitled to something you didn't earn or someone else has just because you even exist at all.
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  786.  @Monkehrawrrr  How? For actually manning up and working for what he has?
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  787. Cheap housing only if you're willing to do without some utilities.
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  788. Waged by the current ruling Liberal Party.
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  789. For those on OW, it should serve as an incentive to get off of social assistance and aspire for better.
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  790.  @sareensidhu6807  But Sweden overall has 2x Denmark's population.
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  791. And most Canadians are gullible.
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  792. By taxing everyone else to support it.
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  793.  @jmacc9876  The justice system is run by bleeding hearts and activists.
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  794. Because it costs more to service remote areas where hardly anyone lives at.
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  795. <blame the government for everything.> When they're not blaming the rich for everything.
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  796.  shadowbanned bycbcctv  LMAO
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  797.  @dasalekhya  Among the 11% of Canadians.
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  798.  @capitalismisdivisionofevil8322  Since when did it cost a lot of money to wash the sink?
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  799. As a result of Maduro killing off all the wealth-producers.
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  800. <raising your prices means you prioritize profits over the service(s) you provide.> Like any self-respecting business. <Holding your prices means that you support people> Even if it means same said people be out of a job in the future, because their workplace can no longer generate the revenues needed to cover the ever-rising operating costs including labor costs to stay solvent and operational. <Tim Horton's hid well behind the fact that they left that up to the individual districts .. > In all fairness, the minimum wage varies by individual district and minimum wage is under the provincial Premier's authority. Not Tim Horton's.
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  801. And reinstate visa restrictions.
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  802. Your beef is with the franchise owners and managers, not the chain higher-ups.
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  803. No. That would be the government through price controls among other restrictions.
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  804.  @elitesbewarned  And there you have it.
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  805. That's because the places they normally do business with, the restaurants and schools which made up a significant portion of their revenue, got shut down.
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  806. Among developed countries, Canada's healthcare is one of the worst.
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  807. While socialism destroyed whole countries.
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  808. @Becoming a Machine Its downfall began with the election of Alison Redford.
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  809.  @rps1689  And rightfully so.
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  810. They did nothing to Canadians. But the government that overtaxed you and made your money worthless did. Then again if you voted for that government under the pretense of social justice, you had it coming and got what you voted for.
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  811. <Eventually people will realize cars and planes can never be a transportation solution that wont bankrupt North America> Planes will always be around as trains are just simply not a viable solution for long-distance travel.
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  812. Because the government jacked up the taxes on them.
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  813. Their shipping is subsidized by Canada Post.
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  814. Only for the Quebec government to raise a stink, because the bill took a lot of Quebec jobs away.
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  815. With foreign students being part of that too many immigrants crowd.
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  816. You mean welfare in general in which EI is part of.
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  817. LOL. Not according to Canada's household debt levels.
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  818. Right choices or politically expedient choices?
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  819.  @MrBrockashocka  But isn't this what minimum wage advocates were crying for some years ago?
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  820.  @GpOg-j3v  <Landlords want to protect themselves and line up their pockets. Employers want to protect their pockets and keep increasing their profits.> And rightfully so Like any self-respecting landlord or business.
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  821. <I ask how many are paying $35/hr.> What skills do you have that would warrant such pay?
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  822. And make the government the landlord?
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  823. No. It's just a problem in Toronto, Vancouver and their surrounding areas.
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  824. It is. Do you prefer Brazil and the homeless getting disappeared there?
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  825. Public-sector workers =/= working class. Their salaries are taxed from the working class.
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  826. Yet Canada seldom ever had a housing crisis under Conservative leadership.
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  827. <He will make it worse. Much worse.> Fear-mongering much? I thought you liberals were above all that.
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  828. Mexico is not going to like that as $25 billion worth of remittances will be lost.
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  829.  @worstknightmayor4439  No such thing as anything can be a religion.
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  830.  @dennisheyes4561  And rightfully so. They're a business, not a charity. <Not necessarily what the community needs.> Especially of what the community needs = loss.
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  831. That along with a smaller market.
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  832. But they pay more in rent.
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  833.  @alexakir86  Most Canadians are not poverty-stricken.
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  834.  @justincheng5241  And Canada enjoyed years of budget surpluses under Chretien the PM responsible for the divestment from public housing, using EI to pay off the debt and funding cuts to the provinces.
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  835. It's not their job to babysit people.
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  836.  @bonbonvegabon  No. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, etc. are currently run by liberals.
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  837. Which might explain why only 11% of Canadians make 6 figures to begin with.
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  838. And weaponize food so they can feed supporters while starving out everyone else.
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  839. Yes they do. Otherwise you wouldn't have much of a social safety net.
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  840. LOL. Government is the cause of this matter.
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  841. As if Canada ever had a national identity. Pierre Trudeau was right about (English) Canada having no culture.
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  842. Only 11% of Canadians make that much.
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  843.  @piku5637  LOL. Like it was in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge?
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  844. What excessive poverty? Much of the family violence is taking place in the suburbs where the well-off live.
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  845. Coupled with carbon tax.
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  846. 94% of Quebec City's population are Quebecois.
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  847. No it won't.
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  848.  @OK-hl6qd  Left-wingers run Toronto.
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  849. How is that going to work in the Arctic where the sunshine doesn't last very long?
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  850. How about helping those people get off the drugs and develop some useful job skills first?
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  851.  @Humanthe9th  Free but mediocre partially due to lower standards.
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  852. And let's start paying higher prices for our goods.
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  853.  @MetaView7  So higher retail prices for our goods, it is.
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  854. Very much. Same with California.
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  855.  @raynwolfsbane2084  While Libs use and abuse the poor.
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  856.  @kyleklukas4808  Conservatives are not in charge of Parliament Hill.
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  857. <and luxury rentals are popping up everywhere,> With the way local zoning laws are, that's the the only housing allowed to be built.
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  858. That's due to logistics costs and a damn-near non-existent customer base up North.
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  859. Hard to do that inn the city where a good portion of people live in apartments.
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  860.  @jessebrook1688  Who are being proven right.
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  861. Or they'll just simply sell to corporate investors as that that's what rent control enables.
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  862.  @briguy677  So? Your nephew's father's friend is free to hire whoever he wants. Your nephew would fall under the luck part.
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  863.  @graffie88  The UK is much smaller in land mass and more densely populated. Easy to have HSR when there is less area to cover and plenty of population density to support it.
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  864. That's nothing compared to the carbon and fuel taxes.
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  865. And that's because Canada is just too oversized and underpopulated to support any meaningful competition.
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  866. But it is because it makes up a good portion of Canada's overall GDP.
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  867. But 2/3 of Canadians own a home.
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  868. With the PM as the CEO.
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  869. No. Just the inevitable result of the left's noble tax-the-rich policies.
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  870.  @titusmccarthy  While LIBS just don't like people who can support themselves.
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  871.  @piku5637  And further bankrupt the country.
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  872.  @ep4115  Well, they're not building anything for free.
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  873. Thanks to socialist overtaxing and regulating.
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  874.  @frac8220  That and also Australia is an island in a God-forsaken part of the planet. As a result, import and shipping costs.
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  875.  @hiraeth1340  And you're just plain naive.
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  876. LOL. China's healthcare system is bottom-tier.
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  877. In response to the higher taxes and restrictions imposed on them by the government. Can't forget the ever-rising operating costs.
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  878. Not really. It's because the CAD is weak and Canada just doesn't have a big enough customer base.
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  879.  @JohnHuxleySavage  No. This inflation is due to currency over-printing and carbon tax.
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  880. Exactly.
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  881. Would that also include the corner store?
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  882. <by a lot of pension funds> Especially provincial pension funds.
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  883.  @danwelterweight4137  <What we need is more, much more public housing.> More Jane & Finches.
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  884. Thanks to government restrictions on how much they're allowed to charge domestic students.
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  885. <Mike Harris rolled back rent control:> Because Bob Rae's rent control diminished the housing supply. That was just one of many reasons he got voted out.
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  886. While Canada = limp-wristed Americans.
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  887. By installments or all at once?
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  888.  @orbiteflow8909  And Canadian food businesses are not?
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  889. LOL.
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  890. Canada has lax immigration laws.
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  891. AirBnB is a consequence, not the cause.
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  892.  @rickagfoster  Exactly.
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  893. No it shouldn't.
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  894. But paying higher taxes so far isn't worth it as most of it go toward the salaries of administrators, bureaucrats and ever-bloating public sector.
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  895. <Canadians need a living thriving wage.> No. Canadians need to live within their means. After all, doesn't Canada have a major household debt problem?
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  896. Leftists are the oligarchs they claim to hate.
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  897.  @hermes8258  Are Korean and Farsi the official languages of Coquitlam?
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  898. Corporate landlords are the end result of zoning laws and other housing supply restrictions that ensure only the richest of the rich can afford to build and own property.
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  899. Exactly.
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  900. Shantytowns, ghettoes where blight, decay and crime rule the roost.
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  901.  @onlyfacts4999  Pretty much.
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  902. And bureaucracy.
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  903. That's if you don't mind shortages or decay.
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  904. How so? And UBI is not a viable long-term solution.
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  905.  @ricochette3237  Lax drug laws and easy access to welfare.
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  906.  @l.c.3150  Two of the biggest private employers in the country.
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  907. And replace it with socialism where you won't have any food to eat.
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  908. And price out the locals in the process. Canadians have some nerve complaining about foreigners.
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  909. And yet the states losing money and people are ran by Democrats.
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  910.  @brandanB80  Like what Somalia has?
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  911. <25% tax will eliminate investors> And shrink housing supply along with jack up the prices for whatever remains.
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  912.  @Alex-dw9im  <Investors will sell and suplly goes up. > Only for those who have the money to pay the tax added on the price imposed on the previous investors.
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  913. Also pride and entitlement.
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  914. With conservatives being proven right. And liberals in denial.
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  915.  @purple7vi0let  And so do Canadians themselves. At least we're not like those Americans, right?
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  916. Exactly.
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  917. Better than socialism where you'd be lucky to get expiring food at all.
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  918. Because Canadians will just simply pay the higher prices and move on.
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  919. The problem is the government. What has taxing the rich accomplished except make everyone poorer in the long run while making everything more expensive?
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  920. Translation: Canada has a system that taxes any attempt to get rich which protects the already rich.
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  921. <people cannot survive without groceries> Especially those who live in the city.
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  922. The last time inflation was this high, Justin's daddy was the PM. Coincidence?
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  923.  @lalahartma  Due to being considered essential businesses thus exempt from government lockdowns.
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  924. Because they love their cheap goods.
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  925.  @redbandjack  Namely to corporate investors who'll turn those properties into the very luxury condos the working class can't afford.
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  926.  @VladiArdd  The same can be said for being a tenant. Time to take your future seriously and buy your own property.
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  927. <IT WOULD ALSO END THE PRATICE/PRESENCE OF SLUMLORDS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!! > Not really as the government is the ultimate slumlord. Private landlords have little on either New York or Chicago Housing Authority.
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  928. LOL. And end up like Greece. Who knew that welfare states are not sustainable and you can tax the rich for only so long?
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  929. Consumer protection only exist in Quebec, that French-speaking province in Canada.
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  930. Home tenants should follow their own advice. You want to live like a big-city person, then pay like a big-city person.
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  931. <Employers get away with paying staff less than the bare minimum!!> Because the government allows them to having a wage system exclusive to restaurants.
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  932. And strike their way to the unemployment line as the private sector doesn't have unlimited funds.
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  933. <because they WERE run down.> Were they city-owned?
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  934.  @MinnieOnCam  And rightfully so. They can't hire just anyone.
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  935. Pretty much.
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  936. This is what they mean by tax the rich.
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  937. Don't complain when that results in workers getting fired or their hours cut because their employers deemed them too expensive to keep around. And prices are raised across the board to support that $30/hour minimum wage you're asking for.
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  938. That's where all the jobs, amenities and social support are.
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  939. @@rightwingcollectiveiq , <rents do not increase at the same rate as they are rent controlled > But suffer from a lack of availability. God forbid if you're looking for housing. <Right-wingers scrapped that legislation which has allowed these rental prices to skyrocket.) > Yet increased housing availability.
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  940. <That's the problem with we, Canadains,...we're too nice.> And scared of the US.
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  941. Because those stupidly filthy rich are responsible for they even have any revenue or campaign contributions at all.
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  942.  @_Y.Not_  Yet most of the money goes in the bank accounts of provincially-appointed administrators.
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  943. Toronto is as liberal as they come.
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  944. Just like Justin is in power due to Toronto.
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  945. Who? Meth-heads?
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  946.  @milhouse8166  Only because of high demand and government and/or geography-imposed low housing supply.
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  947.  @milhouse8166  London, UK Paris, France Tokyo, Japan New York, USA
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  948.  @bigpurplepops  And this is what is considered fair and equal. SMH.
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  949. Neither can you count on the liberals as their help is really about delaying the inevitable.
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  950. Because the only disgusting greed going on is that of the government.
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  951. The hollowing out of the middle class is what socialism calls for as the middle class = bourgeoisie to be taxed and regulated to oblivion if not jailed/killed/exiled with their property and assets seized.
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  952.  @OK-hl6qd  Toronto is a left-wing stronghold.
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  953. And only exist on the UK and US's good graces.
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  954. Those shelters are fire hazards. So the morally superior humanist way is to leave them around until something happens resulting in either property damage or someone dying?
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  955.  @milhouse8166  LOL. It only is if you suck at managing finances or living within your means.
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  956. Canada doesn't have any billionaires.
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  957. We don't have VAT. We have GST (federal) + PST (provincial) and for certain provinces, HST (federal + provincial merged).
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  958.  @john_doe_not_found  <domestic prices being reasonable.> Which depends on the government not taxing and regulating the crap out of them at every turn.
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  959. Ask the folks in Chicago. Not well.
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  960. <International students are partly to blame for this.> Not really. The lax immigration policies allowed them to do that.
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  961.  @on2thenextthing  China has 1.4 Billion people. That's not hard to achieve. Too bad the vast majority of those millionaires are friends, family and acquaintances of the ruling CCP.
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  962. Because Canada is irrelevant.
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  963. Not exactly. Is Pyongyang, North Korea for everyone?
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  964.  @onefortyfivepm776  Well, it's better than blight and decay.
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  965.  @illariylima3388  He's against immigration, because it will dilute the demographics and weaken Quebec's claim to independence like it did in 1995.
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  966. Canada = Argentina North.
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  967.  @justadude117X  Until you go bankrupt begging the IMF for a bailout loan.
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  968. <Meanwhile landlords are ignorant of this happening > And rightfully so. Landlords are not responsible for tenant's wages. Take that up with the tenants' workplace employers.
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  969. Higher education is a privilege.
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  970. LOL. At the expense of the treasury and their neighbors' financial well-being.
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  971. Liberals raise taxes on "the rich" which happen to be the same average people they swear to be in solidarity with.
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  972. Because permafrost makes them useless and too costly to maintain. And since Nunavut's capital is situated on an island surrounded by deep water, a rail network is out of the question.
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  973. But no one envies Russia's healthcare system.
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  974. Canada among developed countries is in the top 10 in homelessness per capita. The US is just barely out of it.
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  975. Airbnb and renovictions are just consequences of landlords recouping whatever money they lost from not being legally allowed to raise the rent accordingly to cover the ever-rising expenses including insurance and property tax or evict bad tenants in a timely manner.
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  976.  @acaciomadeira5147  Public transit is not that reliable, though unless you live near a subway station or a (semi) major bus route.
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  977.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  There's no room for complacency in today's game.
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  978.  @Lili-xq9sn  Where people get to vote for their own subjugation.
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  979. But so is the COL, so that's not saying much. Plus, the North have to import everything.
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  980. Define enough as judging by the high household debt, Canadians seriously need to learn to live within their means.
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  981. Not really. We're every bit as corrupt as they are.
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  982. Ontario has higher salaries and lower taxes than Quebec to compensate.
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  983.  @tubebrocoli  While landlords are getting ripped off by the government and the bank.
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  984. Corporate ownership is a consequence of government meddling.
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  985. Also income tax. Its abolishment is long overdue.
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  986. Densely populated and smaller land mass meaning less ground to cover and infrastructure to maintain.
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  987. I know the entire Persian Gulf with the catch being only citizens of patrilineal lineage are granted it
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  988. And end up with empty shelves. Just what Canada needs.
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  989.  @avibarman  Alcohol is not a basic need.
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  990.  @bozelecter  NYC has rent control. Do does SF. Yet that didn't stop prices from going through the roof along with causing housing shortages.
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  991.  @scottmueller5895  <I know this will piss off a lot of people who invested in homes> Which would be 66% of Canadians.
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  992. And the current head is a Marxist.
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  993. <especially in a social-democratic country.> But it is due to high taxes and restrictions. Canada depends on real estate to grow its GDP to compensate for declining local industry.
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  994. The government as the Canadian market is more bureaucratic.
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  995. <People rely too much on packaged food which can be expensive.> Welcome to living in the big city.
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  996. No. Liberals in Canada are just CCP lite.
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  997.  @doitalldan5326  Socialists are motivated by envy and spite.
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  998. Exactly. Canada's tax system does not really allow for millionaires or billionaires.
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  999. Canada has government-imposed landing fees and too much distance between local destinations.
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  1000. But also have higher living costs than the US. Plus, Canadians have far less purchasing power within Canada.
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  1001. Los Angeles was intended to be a sprawl as its founders wanted nothing to do with the Chicago/NY way of doing things.
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  1002.  @Rob9345  Actually, Toronto = 2nd most expensive city in the country. Vancouver takes the cake.
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  1003. And many Canadians voted for this.
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  1004.  @pinkyfloyd7712  That statistic is only irrelevant to NDP-voters.
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  1005. LOL.
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  1006. Yet somehow, medical fees are only the 2nd cause of bankruptcy.
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  1007. Still beats socialism where the government is the CEO.
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  1008.  @diannemcleod3055  A by-product of lousy immigration policy.
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  1009. But too proud to live in a less prestigious place.
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  1010.  @rps1689  Transport costs.
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  1011.  @RealLifeandAveragePeople  That's if you're willing to forego taking a shower for days at a time.
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  1012. Leftists being leftists. They're caring and compassionate until it's time to be such at their own expense.
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  1013. Translation: we ran out of people to tax.
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  1014. They need to make more local babies.
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  1015.  @ИванСнежков-з9й  Increase in minimum wage = increase in overall living costs.
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  1016.  @ИванСнежков-з9й  Higher minimum wage = higher operating costs = higher overall retail costs which affects smaller businesses the most. Also workers getting laid off or having their hours cut because they're too costly to keep around.
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  1017. Especially by their LPC paymasters.
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  1018.  @garyhaggquist740  Totally true. <People living in social democracies are the most contented people on earth.> Not anymore with mass immigration, high taxes and low productivity becoming their undoing.
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  1019.  @davidvosspoor4694  Just because it's a essential necessity does not make it a right.
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  1020.  @davidfoltz8922  BC has rent control yet is #1 in the country in rent, evictions and homelessness.
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  1021. Because minimum-wage workers are a minority.
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  1022.  @krisskross8985  The yuppies, wealthy pensioners and urban professionals.
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  1023. With Hong Kong having the world's highest average rent.
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  1024.  @sabsab377  No. Government greed and market over-regulation caused this mess.
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  1025. Interesting considering it's a Blue state.
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  1026. You misspelled socialism.
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  1027.  @helloitsme4139  <Is going yo be like how it’s done in Asian societies like India. China, where you have shared living> India and China. Canada's top sources for immigrants.
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  1028. No. That's just Toronto and Vancouver.
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  1029. The only part of the restaurant industry corporations have anything to do with is fast food where virtually all the outlets are independently owned but make money from real estate and royalties.
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  1030. Including personal greed in the case of the reporter living beyond her means.
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  1031. Because of how badly the government mismanaged them into insolvency.
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  1032. But Montreal is not like the rest of Canada or North America in general. It doesn't go by the British-US way of doing things.
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  1033. Not before the current ruling Liberal government and anyone who voted for them.
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  1034. Government bureaucrats.
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  1035. Toronto isn't losing industry like Detroit did. The last time Toronto resembled Detroit was when it played 2nd fiddle to Montreal.
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  1036. While you're at it, you can let go of Britain's hand.
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  1037. Which government? This one is on the Mayor.
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  1038. Exactly.
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  1039. Be they Clinton, Obama or Biden.
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  1040. And? <Corporate GREED is disgusting and needs to be stopped.> So is personal envy.
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  1041.  @noseboop4354  But San Francisco at least has Silicon Valley to justify its prices. Hong Kong has the finance sector and no land left to build on.
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  1042. @@rightwingcollectiveiq And start electing liberals who will make things costly in the long run and all but completely bankrupt the province in the name of appeasing voters who just live for instant gratification.
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  1043.  @Moltenink  That is the people who own and run the businesses, not the people who just merely work in them.
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  1044. But the US has the people and population density to warrant lower prices.
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  1045. <it's time for the Federal Government to grow a pair and Legislate change. > That Canadians will pay dearly for in the long run.
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  1046. But Canada's COL is higher, so that $20 000 CAD is not going to do much. Plus, we don't have a national minimum wage.
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  1047.  @dennisheyes4561  Just like in Argentina.
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  1048. Due to city folks moving in with the benefit of working from home.
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  1049. Short-term rentals as a way for landlords to recoup whatever money they lost on rent controls and eviction moratoriums.
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  1050. @Adam S Not even Albertans, who on average have the highest income.
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  1051.  @richard-gn3es  <Instead of people seeing housing as an investment..> Housing is an investment if you care about your family's future.
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  1052. Chatr is owned by Rogers.
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  1053. But at least San Francisco has Big Tech to justify its high rents.
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  1054. Would that also include the greed of people thinking they're entitled to a place they don't own and/or can't afford to live in?
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  1055. They'll stop building useless condos when the government stops making building every other kind of housing costly and all but completely illegal.
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  1056.  @louisecote3542  But apparently they can't afford to.
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  1057. And end with the revolutionaries becoming the oligarchs they just replaced alongside the people still starving and oppressed.
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  1058. And shrink the size of government.
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  1059. Like the boomer citizens?
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  1060. Well, rent control did nothing except exacerbate the crisis with less housing available and renovictions being the only viable and legal way for landlords to recoup their losses from government-imposed underpricing.
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  1061.  @mzdrizzle  As in everywhere people deem desirable to live, namely the big cities.
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  1062. Enabled by the government.
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  1063. Speculators are not the ones driving up food costs. It's the government with the high taxes and restrictions on production and distribution.
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  1064. Plus the fact that most people, immigrants and locals alike, only want to live in the big cities because that's were all the opportunities, amenities and social support are at.
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  1065. Exactly.
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  1066. Exactly.
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  1067. Enabled and supported by greedy governments.
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  1068. <Undo Thatcherism and bring back socialism> The same socialism that bankrupted the UK in the 70's giving way to Thatcher?
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  1069. You're free to go find housing that was built before 2018 as they're still under rent control.
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  1070.  @eattherich9215  Well, rent control helped exacerbate the housing crisis by fewer rentals available for those seeking housing along with landlords selling their properties because they weren't legally allowed to charge the amount needed to cover basic operating costs losing money in the process. Never mind the lopsided rental laws in favor of tenants making renovictions, AirBnB and even leaving apartments empty viable options.
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  1071. Landlords have nothing on the ultimate landlord which is the government.
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  1072. It's already there. This is what rent guidelines enabled.
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  1073.  @happydappyman  Which comes right back to government policy.
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  1074. Well, they have to pay high taxes to maintain the big government nanny state they so enjoy.
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  1075. Because they don't have to.
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  1076. How about you buy your own house? <The problem is the greed of parasite landlords> Says an entitled and irresponsible tenant.
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  1077. Tenants: But I can't afford the rent in the most hippest/trendiest/gentrified part of the city.
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  1078. Rental control helped cause the housing shortage.
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  1079.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  Western Europe is densely populated with a small landmass so it doesn't cost much to maintain infrastructure.
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  1080.  @minimaladjacent  <this is a provincial program > Initiated by Kathleen Wynne and the previous Liberal government. Doug Ford was never obligated to let it continue.
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  1081. Canada's forefathers were right in not trusting China and instituting a head tax.
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  1082. But there was no crisis under Harper.
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  1083.  @nicksmith9  No it wasn't as no one went homeless or struggled to find a place under Harper. Nor did 500 000 immigrants at a time showed up.
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  1084.  @nicksmith9  That must have been you.
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  1085. But the feds have plenty of agency when it comes to mass immigration-induced high demand as immigration is under the federal government's authority.
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  1086.  @manifestdaily6144  All enabled and encouraged by federal government policy.
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  1087. The same EV that could blow up on you at any moment?
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  1088.  @karycook4886  Who cares about animals? And animals certainly don't need your help in finding something to eat.
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  1089.  @karycook4886  Says a goat-worshipper.
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  1090. That was already done. Renters suffer in the end in the form of less housing available, (inevitably) higher prices, renoviction, corporate buyout and housing in a state of disrepair.
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  1091. Very little compared to unchecked immigration.
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  1092. So does neo-Bolshevik Jagmeet Singh.
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  1093.  @likeaboss8282  Toronto is just Chicago at best.
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  1094.  @wavelength7503  Enabled and facilitated by government greed.
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  1095.  @wavelength7503  LOL @ least capable. Are you that helpless? You're doing a much better job of losing than all supposedly good conservatives like to see you with your poor budgeting and attitude.
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  1096.  @wavelength7503  A Boomer, I see.
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  1097. <The corporations that buy up apartment properties are greedy. > That's just the end result of rent control pricing and regulating mom-and-pop property-owners out of the market.
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  1098. You mean French courses as Quebec's official language is French.
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  1099. The British made a grave mistake in allowing the French to retain their customs and traditions in exchange for military alliance to keep the Americans off of them.
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  1100. Capitalism works. Government meddling is the real cause of this crisis.
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  1101. The current ruling Liberal Party is the ultimate problem.
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  1102.  @dees900  But it keeps the prices of goods relatively low for local consumers.
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  1103. Agreed, but how how exactly do you grow your own food in the Arctic?
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  1104. But still worse than every other Western European country and Japan.
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  1105. Rent control enabled it.
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  1106. Studying abroad is a privilege, not a right.
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  1107. Private property existed even in Jesus's time.
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  1108.  @evelinholmes6401  Or just good old-fashioned pride?
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  1109. Welcome to the big city.
    1
  1110. How many people work minimum wage in Canada?
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  1111. Conservatives have nothing to do with this. Plus, isn't Bell a Liberal Party donor?
    1
  1112. Poor people are poor for a reason. And it has little to do with the rich.
    1
  1113. LOL. Yet interestingly among developed countries, New Zealand has the highest per capita homelessness rate.
    1
  1114. Simple. High building costs and bureaucracy.
    1
  1115. Try living in Quebec without health insurance around tax season.
    1
  1116. LOL? With $3000 minimum for rent?
    1
  1117. Iqaluit is literally on an island in the North. Railways are out of the question. Ditto for harbors as it's too small and isolated for one and the waters are too icy for any boat travel.
    1
  1118. They already exist in the form of SRO's and the most run-down of public housing.
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  1119.  @JodBronson  Liberals being liberals.
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  1120. <sorry we dont offer this to men for some reason> Because Canada like the rest of the West has gone gynocentric. Men and fathers do not matter.
    1
  1121. How is it bilingual when only 9% of English Canadians can speak French?
    1
  1122. <no housing crisis like Canada and has robust economy> The US has a housing crisis as well. Just not nearly as bad.
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  1123. Along with entitled tenants.
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  1124.  @TimScott-x2d  <we need lower housing costs> You can start by lowering the mass immigration-induced high demand.
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  1125. That would require Trudeau to override provincial jurisdiction.
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  1126. A.K.A. the average NDP voter.
    1
  1127. What exploitation? Those international students are the ones doing the exploiting for PR and money to remit back to their home countries. Plus they came here by choice.
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  1128.  @ahmedzakikhan7639  And both already have rent control.
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  1129. But a lot do. Hence the average Canadian salary being $49 300. Only 11% of Canadians make 6-figures.
    1
  1130. Because rich nations founded and currently fund the UN.
    1
  1131. Not exactly. Houses may get liquidated, but the people still won't be able to buy anyway.
    1
  1132. How about a smaller customer base and a weak currency?
    1
  1133. If the minimum wage should be $20-23/hour, you better not complain when that 1 lbs of Eversweet butter end up costing $14.98 to compensate.
    1
  1134. You mean vote NDP for a bankrupt Canada.
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  1135. Britain should have went it alone against the US and done to Quebec what the Americans did the Acadians.
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  1136.  @silka4670  <50 years ago most Canadians could afford to buy a house.> But feminism, free trade, fiat currency and mass immigration changed all that.
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  1137. Tenants, take warning. Revolutions seldom end well as your heroes will eventually turn on you and become the very oppressors they replaced.
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  1138. Are tiny homes legal?
    1
  1139.  @user-ld6wo4rv8h  And women overwhelmingly in favor of high taxes, money-borrowing and printing, bloated and unsustainable social programs, etc.
    1
  1140. Exactly. My brother is 40 and has lived with me for the past 2 years having to move back to Montreal, because he couldn't afford the rent in Vancouver as he worked and still works contract jobs.
    1
  1141. Condos are for bachelors and childless couples.
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  1142.  @milhouse8166  LOL. Said no one ever.
    1
  1143. But they're not tired of living beyond their means setting themselves up for hardship.
    1
  1144. While socialism/communism is the epitome of a 2-class society. The government and the well-connected = 1%. Everyone else = 99%.
    1
  1145. No more so than tenants who think they're entitled to a place they don't own and can't afford.
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  1146.  @ewenchan1239  <Why can we do to alleviate said barriers and restrictions/limitations?> Get rid of the bureaucracy in the public system.
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  1147. Partly because certain groups were barred from the job market.
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  1148.  @MelvinJ64  Haiti, Morocco, West and Central Africa.
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  1149.  @josephd.5524  Norway is on the higher end in living costs.
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  1150.  @LoggyWD  Only for inflation to kick in and the poor will be right back to square one.
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  1151. Capitalism works. This crisis is due to too much socialism.
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  1152.  @CarlingOV  See the UK in the 60's and 70's.
    1
  1153. Nope. Socialist greed in the form of big government meddling.
    1
  1154.  @rps1689  Like what Argentina has?
    1
  1155. And watch equally parasitic tenants pay even higher rent.
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  1156. Maybe, but most working Canadians are rather lousy with personal finances.
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  1157.  @pegandolo  <For developers to build massive glass buildings with condos only yuppies can afford?> Thanks to zoning restrictions and high building costs that rendered condos the only high-density housing developers can afford to legally build in the city.
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  1158.  @silentmajority8365  Brute force. There's a reason why most regimes spend a good portion of their GDP on the military and security.
    1
  1159. Among developed countries, Canada has one of the worst.
    1
  1160. So does government extortion.
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  1161.  @TheTechnoPilot  Yet here you are perpetuating government propaganda.
    1
  1162.  @dsteffler54  Exactly.
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  1163.  @africanking787  But Chretien finished it in the 90's.
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  1164. But first the government needs to lower property taxes and restrictions.
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  1165.  @theviceinvirtue  Rent control exacerbated the housing shortage by discouraging developers from building new housing, forcing landlords to operate at loss as they weren't legally allowed to raise rents accordingly to cover the rise in taxes, insurance, repairs and other expenses giving way to renovictions and Air BnB, and locking out new renters from the market.
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  1166. I would have said Argentina, but that country is as dysfunctional as the Spain and Italy it got its colonizers and immigrants from.
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  1167.  @CanadianEhHole  After Montreal fell out of favor.
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  1168. That's just simply not viable as no one is interested in working, living or doing business in the middle of nowhere.
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  1169.  @byronmcduffy3485  Too bad, then drive for X amount of minutes and hours just something as simple as a loaf of bread or basic medical attention. Never mind the high suicides per capita. Even the old USSR barely bothered to develop Siberia as it proved too costly.
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  1170.  @byronmcduffy3485  <Maybe make the cost of doing business in any city over a million people so prohibitive they want to relocate somewhere else.> Where the costs of doing business will be every as high due to transport costs.
    1
  1171. <The Cons would be so much worse> No they wouldn't.
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  1172. The REM is no more faster than the Metro on an average weekend.
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  1173. Justin Trudeau said Canada would welcome them. If anything, he's being held to his word.
    1
  1174. But lower price also mean lower revenues especially in a place like Nunavut which doesn't have the population to support lower prices in the face of higher operating and shipping costs trying to be financially viable.
    1
  1175. <Car owners don’t want to be forced to drive hours of commute and waste their precious time that they could have spent with their family or for their own. > Forced to drive yet voluntarily chose to live where they need a vehicle. Hmmm!
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  1176.  @Toto-cl8rw  But animals work for what have. Humans are the only species who can get away with being lazy and expect others to support them.
    1
  1177. You hate condos only because you can't afford one.
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  1178. And do what? The people are every bit as greedy as the companies they criticize.
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  1179.  @kennethmorrison7689  UM. Healthcare funding cuts in Canada happened under Chretien's rule.
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  1180. Isn't Pharmaprix owned by Metro?
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  1181.  @susiex6669  I confused it with Jean Coutu.
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  1182. 1:06 Pretty much. Moral of the story: never trust anything government-run.
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  1183.  @ReinSouls  Exactly.
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  1184. If so, then whoever's tasked with providing housing should have the right to set the terms and conditions such will be provided under.
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  1185.  @CloudaceMC  Just like it's a privilege to be a tenant.
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  1186. High demand, low supply.
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  1187. No they can't. The land is just simply not fit to build any train or road infrastructure due to permafrost. And shipping and transportation costs are the reason why products cost more in the North. Plus, it doesn't help that hardly anyone lives there.
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  1188.  @McKenzie20206  Also Vancouver. But then again, China got that taken care of.
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  1189. <Canada used to be a great country but unfortunately over the years with more and more immigrants coming from abroad and having a false understanding of socialism and thinking it’s the same as communism, they kept voting for conservatives who kept slashing the social security and welfare programs and system that existed to prevent this situation. > Many of the immigrants have a good understanding of socialism and communism as they're fleeing not just them but the fallout that continues to plague their home countries. No one slashed the social security and welfare programs as much as the federal Liberals under Chretien and Martin did.
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  1190. <Even if they build 3.5M houses in next 10 years (doubt it!) what makes housing not affordable is cost of leaving in general.> What about the costs of building and maintaining housing along with an influx of peopel willing to pay higher prices?
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  1191. That's just going to end up costing you in the long run.
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  1192.  @coopsnz1  But even higher living costs.
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  1193. Toward bankruptcy and collapse, that is.
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  1194. Even the left that ran New Zealand during COVID had enough sense to close the borders and cut immigration to get the rents under control.
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  1195.  @CommonClowns  Who knew that governments were every bit as exploitative as private-sector bosses?
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  1196. No. Government meddling is.
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  1197. <the 40% of the electorate who can't afford to purchase..> Mostly Liberal/NDP-voters living in cities affected by their representatives' policies.
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  1198.  @Gryph01  But they do affect the costs of supply, production and distribution with their taxes and regulations.
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  1199.  @123benny4  Until very recently in Quebec, there were no minimum age requirements for a person to work. So legally, a minor was allowed to work.
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  1200. That's how it's done in Cuba.
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  1201. <but it’s for the general public & affordability. > Like in Hong Kong?
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  1202.  @gman3013  Or Bob Rae.
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  1203. Enabled and facilitated by the government.
    1
  1204. Wrong! Inflation is caused by government overspending.
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  1205.  @jessefisher1809  Who make up 68% of Canadians.
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  1206. Greed is part of humanity.
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  1207. Canadians are passive.
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  1208. Except in socialism, the government is the 1% and everyone else is the 99%.
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  1209.  @friendsandfamily100  Before WW2, income tax didn't exist.
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  1210. I hope you're ready to embrace shortages as few will bother producing and stocking goods as a result.
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  1211.  @richardramfire3971  Because property rights do no exist there.
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  1212. Only to end up crumbling and borderline uninhabitable due to mismanagement and in Russia's case lack of funding once the oil money dried up to subsidize the people who couldn't afford it.
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  1213.  @CourtneySchwartz  Actually it is bad. Bad enough for Canadians to take their chances with the US system.
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  1214.  @JnFSouljah  Define unreasonable. Grocery stores raise prices in response to the rising costs of getting the goods onto the shelves from suppliers and producers.
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  1215.  @CHodgy  Ultimately themselves. They have personal agency.
    1
  1216. <Canada is a private public system already. > Not really, but at least Canadians do have some access to it.
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  1217. He admires China, And what China has is not that far off from Iran.
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  1218. Especially if you're not a single mom.
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  1219. That's because you have to import everything. Just like Hawaii and Alaska.
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  1220. Property-owners = 66% of Canadians.
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  1221. Not really. The government is just a reflection of the corrupt and ignorant citizenry that elected them.
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  1222. While anything Liberals have done to control prices led to shortages and higher prices in the long run.
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  1223. So are the salaries and pensions of politicians and civil servants.
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  1224. That "us" make up 32% of the population. 68% of Canadians are property-owners including most government officials and workers.
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  1225. Only in land-size. But population-wise, Canada is about as big as Morocco. The US has the 3rd biggest population in the world.
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  1226.  @rca6576  Pretty much.
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  1227. No. If anything, Canada is becoming China 2.0
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  1228. No. The government has done more than enough damage. Plus, rent control enabled Air BnB, renoviction and corporate ownership's existences.
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  1229. But the only cheaper places to live are places with no jobs or economy.
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  1230. <This needs to be MADE RIGHT. > With MAID.
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  1231.  @cosmoinnes5039  <we are the only country with public healthcare that only has one option.. > Actually 3 countries have that distinction. Canada, Cuba and North Korea.
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  1232. Maybe if they learned that they're not entitled to or justified in taking things regardless of life circumstances.
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  1233. Only to have living costs and unemployment increase.
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  1234.  @minimaladjacent  No. That's socialism. State-imposed poverty and an actual 1% vs. 99%.
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  1235. We barely have such a thing in Canada anymore. Government intervention is the biggest contributor of them all.
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  1236. ODSP is a provincial matter. Not federal.
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  1237.  @shari9721  <They come because they have no other options> Mainly in their home countries. <that doesnt exactly make them "willing"> But they were not forced against their will to take the job.
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  1238.  @rtimmins7212  <I can make lunch for 2 people for a lot less than 15 dollars> Yet have to spend more than $15 just to get the ingredients needed for that.
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  1239. The double GST credit was a one-time payment.
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  1240.  @helloitsme4139  Because corporations can afford to buy in bulk and have the floor space to accommodate hundreds of customers at a time.
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  1241. And real estate accounting for a good portion of Canada's overall GDP.
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  1242.  @elena2125  Because that's the only high-density housing developers are legally allowed to build in the city.
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  1243. And make housing supply less available.
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  1244.  @peej91  Government intervention made sure of that.
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  1245. Don't forget that Biden was author of mass incarceration.
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  1246.  @slowjamsliver7006  Like where exactly?
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  1247.  @brettthomas5605  Often resulting in shortages and higher prices for whatever is still available.
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  1248. Metro owns Food Basics.
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  1249. The problem is government meddling, not corporations.
    1
  1250. And then animal activists will cry foul.
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  1251. Only for units built recently.
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  1252.  @mkyhou1160  And Ontario already went through that in the 90's under Bob Rae.
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  1253. How so? The market has been hampered with government meddling.
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  1254. True.
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  1255. New York and California are 2 of the most desirable states to live in.
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  1256.  @Drought-jr6pb  <Either start rent control > Rent control does not work.
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  1257. LOL. Public-sector workers are among the privileged in society.
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  1258. No it's not. And this is a Canadian channel.
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  1259. Leave the world out of this. This is a Made In Canada problem.
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  1260. Domestic flights are only overpriced because of landing fees, Canada being oversized and sparsely populated.
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  1261. While Liberals love public services only because they can leverage votes and power with them.
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  1262.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  Some people just haven't got the memo.
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  1263.  @ijustwanttosleepnow  Especially in the city.
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  1264. You sure?
    1
  1265. How about get a bigger population to tip the economy of scale in its favor?
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  1266. Would that include yours?
    1
  1267. But Canadian industry have been gouged by Canadian governments be it federal, provincial or local.
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  1268. As rich as some companies are, they're limited in funds.
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  1269. Agreed. But Canadians better not complain about having to pay real prices for gas among other goods dependent on gas to make them available for mass consumption.
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  1270. And bankrupt the country in the process.
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  1271. No. Abolish the carbon and fuel tax. That's when prices will fall.
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  1272.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  If you're into inbreeding, yes.
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  1273.  @cindy7lee  <Elitist believe, the average population is more than capable to elect the right people. > Like in Venezuela and South Africa?
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  1274.  @cindy7lee  They had direct democracies. And their direct democracies led to Chavez/Maduro and the post-Mandela ANC.
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  1275.  @igbc176  It is socialist. Maduro effectively killed private enterprise there.
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  1276. Enabled and facilitated by the government.
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  1277.  @Ynalaw  Fascism is a brand of socialism.
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  1278. <but don't be buying up lower income places> But you better not cry about blight.
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  1279. <Blame the mega cooperations that beat out small business, > No. Blame the government that taxed and regulated small business into bankruptcy. <blame that other country who basically forced everybody to use their slave labor for decades to produce everything you own. > While you hypocritically bought what was produced with said slave labor so you could save a buck and the government happily allowed companies to move their production to that other country to save on labor costs.
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  1280. Singapore has no land to build anymore housing. Just like Hong Kong.
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  1281. <that public/social housing projects were privatized and then run down or as here said not considered anylonger viable.> Thanks to government meddling and mismanagement.
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  1282.  @kinngrimm  This is about Canada. Not the US.
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  1283. <And the units that are built now are too high in price.> Due to the costs of building and land acquisition.
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  1284.  @miriamm2978  You mean taxpayer-subsidized transit passes with the vast majority being drivers.
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  1285. Huge profits to cover the huge costs of building the homes. There is nothing greedy about recouping.
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  1286.  @murder00redrum  Sounds like of the people in Canada have bigger issues than rent. They're living beyond their means.
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  1287. <come to America.> Mostly places run by Democrats.
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  1288. Very much.
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  1289. LOL. China has a housing crisis.
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  1290.  @piku5637  Taxing the rich ironically hurts the poor.
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  1291. And who's going to pay for that?
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  1292. <It is CRAZY expensive to study as an International student. You have almost no supports (medical or otherwise). Wow.> Well, studying abroad is a privilege. And Canada as a sovereign country has every right to charge however much they want.
    1
  1293. LOL.
    1
  1294.  @benjaminhenderson5025  Not nearly as big as the high taxes and regulations that encouraged the so-called corporate price-gouging.
    1
  1295. @Youtube music Otherwise manage the pay you currently make better.
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  1296.  @OK-hl6qd  What right-wingers? Mass immigration is a left-wing policy.
    1
  1297. LOL. And yet until very recently never lasted more than one term in any province they were elected and left bankrupt.
    1
  1298. People want to enjoy the benefits of big-city living but don't want to bear the costs of big-city living.
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  1299. OH THE HORROR! They don't even contribute to their own household. LOL
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  1300. <Theres was a time when these people made nothing because they felt it was their duty to do the job and serve Canada and they already had their fortunes made> And when was that exactly?
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  1301.  @Gc-we8sy  Namely the elderly and sick.
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  1302. Canada is the only 1st world country without a private healthcare option.
    1
  1303. <More proof that the entire world needs a reset of a positive kind for humanity,> But humanity is too corrupt to the core for that. And that has been proven since time immemorial. Humanity needs God.
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  1304. With rent control enabling it.
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  1305. No. It's the government killing off the middle class with high taxes and inflation. If anything , they're just making Marx and Lenin proud. <You can thank the big three grocery chains for a huge chunk of the inflation issues. > Corporations don't cause inflation. Governments do.
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  1306. But so are the living costs.
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  1307.  @milhouse8166  Only in the minds of deluded Canadians.
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  1308.  @dennisheyes4561  Most Canadians are home-owners. <The government brings in less from taxes from affordable housing, and is therefore incentivized against them.> As they undercharge tenants and need massive subsidies to make up for the lost revenue to cover basic operating and maintenance costs.
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  1309. 1:34 LOL. CCPA is a left-wing partisan thinktank funded by unions.
    1
  1310. Exactly.
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  1311. Not really. You need to check what you're buying before you actually buy it.
    1
  1312. LOL.
    1
  1313. <The only solution is Government regulation! > Say HELLO to higher prices and less available for purchase.
    1
  1314. And experience even more housing shortages having to pay higher prices for whatever's still available.
    1
  1315. To offset the record costs they have to pay just to get merchandise onto the shelves.
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  1316. If Edmonton was a dictatorship, the homeless would have gotten disappeared.
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  1317.  @hyena280  While you cry about not being able to afford to live in Ontario and BC, probably going homeless in the process.
    1
  1318. LOL.
    1
  1319.  @calumclark9128  MAID is Trudeau's idea.
    1
  1320.  @susanb4816  No. Liberals are the greater of two evils as their policies making things more costly in the long run.
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  1321.  @calumclark9128  Well, it's not Doug Ford's job to take care of you. He's not your daddy.
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  1322. Renoviction. One of the unintended consequences of rent control.
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  1323. I didn't know that.
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  1324. LOL. Housing is a privilege.
    1
  1325.  @stratford374  While NDP will set the country up for an IMF bailout.
    1
  1326.  @benjaminhenderson5025  They lied to you.
    1
  1327. 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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  1328.  @chetanaik  Exactly.
    1
  1329. <The cost of healthcare, per capita, in the U.S. is over twice the cost in Canada and there are millions of Americans that have little to no care at all whereas all Canadians have healthcare.> Yet there are more Canadians without family doctors than Americans without healthcare insurance.
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  1330. Better that than what Cuba and North Korea have with stagnation and regression.
    1
  1331. Neither do the NDP who run Edmonton and called for the encampment removal.
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  1332.  @ew6392  Reasonable only because it's subsidized.
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  1333. They're just using the migrants for cheap political points.
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  1334. Just like Quebec doesn't care about the rest of Canada.
    1
  1335. Hawaii is an island far away from the mainland where everything has to be imported.
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  1336. Well, this is the social democracy big government welfare state Canadians voted for.
    1
  1337.  @piku5637  <full socialism tbh.> Where society will never be anything more than middling at best.
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  1338.  @jus_des96  LOL. OH YES IT DOES as communists have a pretty lengthy track record of forced labor and shortchanging thee workers.
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  1339. First abolish the carbon and fuel tax.
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  1340. And then eat each other.
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  1341. All in the name of convenience.
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  1342. No. Overbearing government killed rental housing.
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  1343.  @frankgarrett242  LMAO.
    1
  1344. <One of the primary reasons prices are so high is that the government allows anyone to buy up all the cheap houses and rent them out. > Because rent control enabled it. Mom-and-pop owners forced to sell or let the property deteriorate due to not being legally allowed to set the rents at the appropriate rate to cover basic operating and maintenance costs. <More houses will do nothing to lower costs. > Especially in the face of (mass-immigration induced) high demand and some people willing and/or able to pay more leaving those who are not SOL.
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  1345.  @piku5637  Lumpen-proletariat.
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  1346.  @GASS-CEO  Inspired by the Maduro diet in Venezuela.
    1
  1347. But CBC is beholden to the Liberal government as it's funded by them.
    1
  1348. They're willing to tank the province just to dig up that landfill for 2 dead women.
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  1349. White Americans did themselves no favors by sacrificing family for career and lifestyle.
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  1350.  @AnArchyRulzz  Helping people or exploiting people for votes?
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  1351. Housing is not a right. Either build your own or work for it.
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  1352.  @nickousticmusic  That's what TFW's, immigrants and high-school-aged locals are for.
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  1353. <BC has to be the worst medical system lead by incompetent leaders> Quebec dit ALLO!
    1
  1354. The government is largely the reason for the high prices.
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  1355.  @indram5384  It is the government. Scrap the Carbon tax.
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  1356. Namely ethnic food stores.
    1
  1357. LOL. How is AC privatized when it's not even legally allowed to move its HQ out of Montreal?
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  1358. Short-term rentals are the consequence of government meddling making long-term rentals too costly to maintain and no longer viable.
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  1359. But the government can't, because there are too many people depending on them for their survival and livelihoods (social assistance-recipients, pensioners and public/state-sector employees.)
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  1360. Just ask Nova Scotia about Ontarians moving in.
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  1361. How so? Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau are BFFs.
    1
  1362. And rightfully so. They didn't go through all the schooling and training for nothing.
    1
  1363. LOL.
    1
  1364. Because Trudeau has the final word on immigration as that's under the federal government's authority. Whatever Houston wants is irrelevant.
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  1365.  @Viewpoint11  <Disposable income needs to go up.> Either lower or abolish taxes.
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  1366. Because housing will never really be affordable. Especially in the cities. Unless you want to end up like Detroit with no industry or tax base.
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  1367. But Winnipeg has far fewer opportunities and few people desire to live there.
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  1368. How? Nothing can be built underground in the North due to permafrost.
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  1369.  @johncam8420  You voluntarily chose to take on that debt. <You want to have literally anything? Get ready to get into debt.> And the key word is WANT.
    1
  1370. No they don't. Disabled/elderly/child care should have never been the responsibility of anyone except the family and relatives. This is what happens when you sacrifice family and future in favor of career and lifestyle.
    1
  1371. If not another Bolivia or Nicaragua.
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  1372. Transportation and logistics costs are the reason for the high prices. Trudeau has nothing to do with this. That's the price to pay for wanting to live in a remote area.
    1
  1373. Up North is not suitable for inhabitation.
    1
  1374. With Toronto Community Housing being the biggest slumlord of them all.
    1
  1375. But the homeless do get free food and safe-injection sites.
    1
  1376. Other countries have private healthcare.
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  1377. <why don’t you blame a developer who destroy an old house that’s affordable, and build a condo unit instead of blaming those who gives an affordable place to stay.> Affordable only because the previous owner was too cheap to pay for maintenance.
    1
  1378.  @harishg8  Poverty is not the root cause of anything.
    1
  1379. What about greedy governments that jacked up the taxes and regulations making it costly to do business and devalued the currency?
    1
  1380. <We might as well rename the Federal Government of Canada to The Federal Government of Ontario and Quebec. The rest of the country doesn’t count..> It figures when Ontario alone has more people than all of Western Canada combined including British Columbia. Plus, Ontario and Quebec account for 56% of Canada's population.
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  1381.  @huckleberrybuttercup21  No it isn't. If the government is obligated to provide for you, then that same government has the right to impose terms and conditions they'll provide for you under.
    1
  1382. Pretty much.
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  1383.  @Darkstar2630  No. Government over-regulation and taxation.
    1
  1384. But it isn't, because you are not owed anything and you do not have the right to demand and force others to provide for you.
    1
  1385.  @ozwalled2007  Typical virtue-signaler non-response.
    1
  1386. By their boomer parents.
    1
  1387. Pretty much.
    1
  1388. And city governments wealthier.
    1
  1389. What about putting a cap on immigration?
    1
  1390.  @mikeb5664  No it doesn't. And only 11% of Canadians make 6-figures to begin with.
    1
  1391. No. Try government with their high fuel tax.
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  1392. No jobs or services there.
    1
  1393.  @_Y.Not_  <The fact that many of them will come here, train and leave to go back to their country of origin is a major problem. > Or the US.
    1
  1394. There will still be human suffering as the human heart is wicked.
    1
  1395. Yet Atheists and Muslims are mutual allies.
    1
  1396. LOL. Care to name one place France colonized that turned out prosperous?
    1
  1397. Or Argentina.
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  1398.  @darrenporter1850  Maduro made the average Venezuelan a 6-figure earner, though.
    1
  1399.  @darrenporter1850  Exactly.
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  1400.  @helloitsme4139  But this is North America where we value our privacy and personal space. And a lot of us are willing to pay higher prices if it means we don't have to share living space with anyone else.
    1
  1401.  @tombottle8041  Um. No. Most minimum wage workers work for small and medium business.
    1
  1402. Namely Alberta.
    1
  1403. Universal healthcare is inefficient.
    1
  1404. <theres so much advantage like socializing or more free time because we are all invole in the kerp the manson cleaned> But no privacy or personal space, conflicting interests, enabling people who just want to live carefree at the expense of others, etc. No thanks.
    1
  1405. Those who have well-paying jobs and/or side gigs.
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  1406. @Youtube music That's what TFW's are for.
    1
  1407. @Youtube music Or live within your means from your current job.
    1
  1408. Yet newly arrived immigrants have found a way.
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  1409. Quebec and Ontario are not going to like that.
    1
  1410. Yes it is as Canada is 78-80% White European.
    1
  1411. Singapore is an uber-autocracy with limited land to build on.
    1
  1412. A lot of the the poor brought it upon themselves. They have personal agency.
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  1413.  @michaelg4664  Mainly in places run and populated by Trump-haters. LA, the Bay Area, Portland, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, etc.
    1
  1414.  @thomasferris3750  <It works when it's well funded, > With borrowed or stolen money.
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  1415. Whatever, eugenecist!
    1
  1416. But wages are lower in Manitoba.
    1
  1417. How so? Democrats control Congress and Senate.
    1
  1418. Starting with the Mayor and City Council.
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  1419. Not in Toronto.
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  1420. And that's the price to pay to live in the big city or in close proximity.
    1
  1421. Yet most of the gun crimes take place in locales where Democrats rule and gun control is present.
    1
  1422. <Remove all taxes on all small business grocers with 10 or less employees. Pricing will get in line real quick.> Not really.
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  1423.  @TheRabid0ne  <People didn’t have enough kids to ensure there would be enough tax payers in the future.> Because they foolishly drank the feminist/Marxist Kool-Aid.
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  1424.  @tonyrae86  There are jobs. It's just that a lot of them are not legally old enough to work.
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  1425.  @carlyatkinson4307  Or even care to.
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  1426. Or Montreal and Plattsburgh.
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  1427.  @yerabbit  But immigrants are not flocking to Quebec like they're flocking to Ontario and BC. Say what you will, but Bills 101 and 96 are saving graces.
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  1428. You mean Justin Trudeau. Harper was decent.
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  1429.  @matthewjames1172  So what is canuck talk?
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  1430. Most of which are provincial government-funded.
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  1431. <Fascism is open dictatorship of the most reactionary and chauvinistic groups of global financial capital.> Fascism = socialism.
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  1432. <There are much nicer countries to move to with much more affordable rent.> Not if you're a local getting paid in local currency.
    1
  1433. How about no?
    1
  1434. But the only jobs available there are government and Irving.
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  1435.  @LakeNipissing  Depending on province.
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  1436. Better than extreme socialism where you'll be lucky to get any bread at all let alone at marked-up prices.
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  1437.  @cindyhaduik7171  No. I mean the Canada Worker's Benefit.
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  1438. You know that rent control enabled renoviction, right?
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  1439. Yes they should. They have organizational acumen.
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  1440. To balance the budget resulting in Canada enjoying surpluses for the rest of the 90's and 2000's.
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  1441.  @mathias8627  <Parties should be outlawed > And become like China or the UAE?
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  1442.  @Monkehrawrrr  Unions jack up operating costs.
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  1443. And then eat each other.
    1
  1444. But government is the ultimate cause of inflation.
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  1445.  @robbarber7253  CERB cheques.
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  1446. <Price will plumet down> And so will service.
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  1447.  @logixthreesome298  But monopolies are the end result of government over-regulation.
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  1448. Sounds more like food is the least of your problems.
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  1449. Air BnB is one of the end results of government meddling.
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  1450.  @davidjym  NO. Europe, Japan and South Korea are on the brink of population collapse.
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  1451.  @detroitdieselseries5071  To fix the mess that Carter and Wilson left behind.
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  1452. Are you prepared to deal with the subsequent shortages?
    1
  1453. 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.
    1
  1454. Namely in Vancouver and Toronto.
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  1455.  @FR33_PALESTIN33  Just ask North Korea or China.
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  1456. The British should have done to Quebec what the Americans did to the French people in Louisiana and other states.
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  1457. <Small grocers are dead in these cities,> Not really. They're just inadequate to meets the needs of a big population.
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  1458. Thanks to your lax immigration laws.
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  1459. Is that a joke?
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  1460. Japan's population is declining.
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  1461. <it was about reducing the financial burden to our social healthcare system, and the Liberals failed at both.> Take that up with your provincial Premier as the restrictions were enforced under his/her authority.
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  1462. <Being able to work from anywhere is enabling many Torontonians to leave, which can also be part of the solution.> Not really as that's jacking up the prices in the places many Torontonians fled to. Case in point: Halifax.
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  1463. But are Canadian's willing to pay higher retail prices?
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  1464. You mean just like in North Korea.
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  1465. Then you better not cry about privatization or austerity. It may not suppose to be profitable, but it sure suppose to be solvent.
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  1466.  @brandanB80  Yes. The government has already proven itself to be incompetent and inefficient.
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  1467. No. The abolishment of the carbon tax would be a start. The government made it costly to produce and distribute food.
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  1468. <The City of Ottawa needs to diversify its economy & not rely on one employer.> Namely the federal government.
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  1469. Corporate ownership is a by-product of rent control.
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  1470. Put down the Liberal Kool-Aid.
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  1471. <They should have put all that money into solving issues in supply chain & logistics instead.> Largely caused by the government's Carbon tax and restrictions.
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  1472. Only 10% of Canadians make minimum wage to begin with.
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  1473.  @zacatkinson3926  That is true.
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  1474. <In California the most comparable state in the US the minimum wage is $15.50USD/hr or $21.25CAD/hr everyone keeps complaining about affordability where as we should be striking and demanding higher wages.> But California is also a state people are fleeing from and has the most homelessness in the US.
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  1475. Increase property tax = increase rent.
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  1476.  @bonbonvegabon  Hardly. Most of the people struggling live in locales ruled by Liberals and other leftists. Namely the cities.
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  1477. Why should the gas company make less money?
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  1478. Would that also include the political establishment that Justin Trudeau is the head of?
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  1479. Communists don't care about the poor as much as they care about feeding their own self-righteous egos.
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  1480. The private market can not and will build more due to government interference.
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  1481. <that's how/why things worked in the 1960-80s...> Because Canada had far less immigration therefore less demand to cater to.
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  1482.  @cantfindausernamedam  And there's no shortage of people willing and/or able to pay whatever rent's being demanded.
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  1483.  @audioproductionmusicproduc8518  CCP lackeys.
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  1484. Says a self-entitled liberal.
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  1485. Due to everything having to be imported as Hawaii is too remote and too small to produce much for its own sustainability.
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  1486. As long as they still insist on living in the big city.
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  1487. You mean self-servants.
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  1488.  @Progressive_Canadian  Due to how punitive, corrupt and wasteful government is.
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  1489.  @ashleybosvik3031  Saskatchewan is for families. Not single people trying to live it up. That's what Toronto and Montreal are for.
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  1490.  @nestorluca3440  But that's not stopping Indian immigrants or even English-speaking Ontarians from moving in.
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  1491. Because corporations are the biggest private employers in the country responsible for the tax base governments depend on for revenue for their day-to-day operations.
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  1492. Exactly.
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  1493. And neither are we going to solve this problem by further overcrowding the cities.
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  1494. Then get rid of rent control and allow landlords to evict bad tenants in a timely manner.
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  1495. <Honor and Integrity do matter. > Not to Justin Trudeau or the current Liberal Party in charge.
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  1496. Or the municipal government property tax and other fees control?
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  1497.  @peaceofcake2153  LOL! Don't be naive. And what happens when the government is big business?
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  1498. LOL.
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  1499. But end up being costly in the long run.
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  1500. What is the average wage in Thailand?
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  1501. Rent control = not enough revenue coming in to cover basic operating/maintenance expenses due to landlords being legally barred from setting the rents at the proper rate forcing to either sell the property (to corporate investors) or leave the property to crumble (renoviction and demoviction).
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  1502. Thanks to that carbon and fuel tax.
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  1503. Would that also apply to China with the CCP being the religion by default?
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  1504.  @Tribuneoftheplebs  Because their livelihoods depend on it.
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  1505. But government made affordable rental homes unviable with their high fees and lopsided laws in favor of tenants.
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  1506.  @123benny4  <There are renovictions going on too here.> The consequences of rent control.
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  1507. That would be Ville de Montreal.
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  1508. How is it force? Those others are free to maintain their own culture all they want, but they should be willing and able to accept the responsibilities and consequences of doing such at their own expense.
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  1509. But Asia is overcrowded and is home to Hong Kong, the city-state with the world's highest rent.
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  1510.  @lynb1022  AB and SK have nothing on BC when it comes to being a nightmare.
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  1511.  @nancyneyedly4587  And they are full, because they're the most desirable places to live in Canada.
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  1512. But like Texas, Washington has no State income tax.
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  1513. No. That would be municipal government. Since when did developers give out building permits?
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  1514. Enabled and facilitated by the government
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  1515.  @htkh  That Asian grocery store is not competition to the big 3. Just like PA and Adonis here in Montreal are competition to the big chains.
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  1516. What about the mass immigration-induced high demand along with high building costs and restrictions?
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  1517. A Loblaws-owned store.
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  1518.  @MrAlen6e  And the highest overall living costs.
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  1519. No. Try pride.
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  1520. And then eat each other.
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  1521. So are rentals due to government interference.
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  1522.  @lapraxi  Rent control are the reason no one wants anything to do with rentals and renovictions are a thing. Hence, the lack of supply.
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  1523. Plus Canada does not have the population or density to support more competition.
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  1524.  @erinrenman1479  Yes it does. And who cares about the rest of the world? This is about rising food prices right here in Canada caused by the PM's carbon tax and restrictions on what farmers are allowed to use to produce food with.
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  1525.  @graham9334  Caused by government policy.
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  1526. <Why are big grocery chains making record profits when ordinary Canadians are working pay check to pay check in order to cover the soaring costs of living?> Simple. Inflation, high taxes and restrictions on their suppliers which jacked up the costs to produce and transport the goods to the stores. And grocery chains having to charge higher prices to cover the costs.
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  1527.  @mnkwazi  LOL. Are you trying to say the government has no agency?
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  1528.  @bitey-facepuppyguy2038  Plus they're a minority anyway.
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  1529. In response to increases in repair and maintenance costs, insurance premiums, mortgage and interest and last but not least property taxes.
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  1530. Pretty much. And then end up like Greece or Venezuela when they run out of productive people to take from.
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  1531. Government intervention exacerbated the problem.
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  1532. Not really. Most politicians are landlords themselves.
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  1533.  @jvssocialmedia2459  No. Regulation enabled corporate ownership.
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  1534. LMAO.
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  1535.  @davidgough4750  But most of the 89% are far from poor and struggling.
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  1536. Really? Bell doesn't exist anymore?
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  1537. As in help Canadians stay poor and needy.
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  1538. And say HELLO to future shortages and mismanagement.
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  1539. Which only 11% of Canadians are able to do.
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  1540. <Capitalism does not work.> Yes it does.
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  1541. Because they don't spoil as much.
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  1542. <And this is why we keep voting Liberal > And then you have the nerve to complain about high living costs and getting priced out of your own Liberal utopias.
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  1543. As in money borrowed against future generations and stolen from those who work and produce for a living.
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  1544. <They don't want things produced locally. Why?> Control. <The government doesn't do enough to help producers. > The government does plenty to hinder producers.
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  1545. Yet you shop at its subsidiaries.
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  1546. Only to ensure mismanagement, shortages and insolvency.
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  1547.  @josephdarchambault6264  There's nothing un-regulated about the housing market. Otherwise, there would have been more housing built, not less.
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  1548. Only for the people to squander it and it's all back to square one.
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  1549. They're among the 66% of Canadians who own their homes. This housing crisis is largely just a big city thing where most of the 34% of renters live at.
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  1550.  @everydaytwiceonsundays4498  Which is largely a big-city issue where renting is a thing, because people tend to move around a lot.
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  1551. Or shopping at its subsidiaries like Provigo and Real Canadian Superstore.
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  1552. It's not your home. You're just paying for the privilege of living on someone else's property.
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  1553.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  Because they don't want to step out of their comfort zone and do what needs to be done.
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  1554.  @TheGruntski  And restrict immigration.
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  1555.  @jennap7513  LOL. Naive much?
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  1556. College tuition is subsidized in Canada.
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  1557.  @coopsnz1  America taxes the rich. Canada taxes any attempt at getting rich protecting the rich.
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  1558. <This is just another way to avoid the real issue, greedy retailers.> That's not a real issue. They're just products of government policy that enabled them.
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  1559. Non-White. And most Muslims are Arab.
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  1560.  @TheRealTommyRoyal  <If anything society would benefit from people having free time to engage in their passions or to raise children.> Only to stagnate and crumble in the process when there's no one to main the infrastructure. I don't fear for the Middle East losing its oil revenue as much as I fear for them collapsing if the foreign migrants finally decide to stop seeking work there and the governments are forced to put their own citizens they spoiled to work.
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  1561. LMAO
    1
  1562. Which only applies to apartments built from 2018 to present. Good luck on finding housing built prior as thanks to rent control, you'd barely be able to find one even if you could afford to pay more.
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  1563.  @manbtm1  If the dude had any sense, he would kick her out ASAP.
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  1564. Housing is not a human right in Canada.
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  1565. You have something against average Canadians?
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  1566. Government meddling made rentals no longer worth owning and maintaining.
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  1567. Neither were their predecessors. Carter, Wilson or Trudeau.
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  1568. Grocery chains are charging extra, because it's costing them extra to get the merchandise in the stores due to the carbon and fuel taxes imposed on their suppliers and producers.
    1
  1569. And the last time the CAD was this low in value, Justin's step-father was in charge.
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  1570. High demand and government-imposed low supply.
    1
  1571. Less than $39K a year.
    1
  1572. The political and social climates of both countries.
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  1573. <allow them to send thousands of Canadians tax dollars to their families overseas.> Remittances are how 3rd-world countries stay afloat. The Philippines, Mexico, India, etc.
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  1574.  @sachadee.6104  Don't you just that carbon tax?
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  1575. Good luck with that as Quebec runs the cartel.
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  1576. Because not everyone can run a business let alone a multi-billion dollar one.
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  1577. Enabled by governments.
    1
  1578. Not as evil as rent control that enabled it.
    1
  1579. Cash or gash.
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  1580. Actually, Canada has high industry regulation. And high industry regulation coupled with high taxes = high production, supply, distribution and overall retail costs.
    1
  1581. Canada has no super-wealthy.
    1
  1582. Sounds like the average Liberal-NDP voter.
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  1583.  @koda3967  How? Virtually all the chains are independently-owned. Weston and co. barely even make any money from sales. They make most of their money from (commercial) real estate and royalties.
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  1584.  @NarutoUzumaki-jw4kw  And government intervention have done plenty to worsen the situation.
    1
  1585. LOL. They don't care about the people they advocate stealing from to make that "free stuff" a possibility.
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  1586.  @robmccormick8155  Another brand of socialism.
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  1587. Loblaws doesn't own Metro. Metro is its own grocer and 3rd largest in Canada, owning Food Basics, Super C and Jean Coutu.
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  1588. I didn't know that cities have that much fertile land to work with.
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  1589. All enabled and facilitated by the government.
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  1590.  @scottcampbell5536  They have nothing on the government.
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  1591. No. The government is the biggest gouger around.
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  1592. Anyone who have made less than $39K in the past calendar year.
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  1593.  @timothyj1966  Unfortunately, a lot of people will still vote for him if only because they're terrified of Conservative rule.
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  1594.  @toppaypositionacademy4658  I think you're confusing Canada with the US on that.
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  1595.  @redwhite_040  <capitalism is reaching the bottom> Thanks to socialists in charge.
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  1596.  @Briggsian  <As you can tell by many of the other comments on this video, there is a significant moral outrage to the idea of "free money", as many Canadians view poverty as an individual failure and not a by-product of a system> It is an individual failure. Whatever the wealthy do is not a valid excuse as you have more than enough time and opportunity to lead a productive life as the system is for the most part free. Canada is not like a lot of those 3rd-world countries that adopted socialism and the economic repression inherent with it once they got their independence.
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  1597.  @Patrick-pv9pe  Even the Bible says the only thing worse than an unbeliever is a person who refuses to work as he does not deserve to eat.
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  1598. So is government and personal greed.
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  1599. Maybe if the consumers pay a living price.
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  1600. But don't come crying about food shortages and empty shelves.
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  1601. Didn't society throw them under the bus in favor of the government?
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  1602. First lower the taxes and restrictions.
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  1603. They're for the wild.
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  1604.  @parkerbohnn  <I only makes $700 a month> That's on you.
    1
  1605. Living off of the largess of the US.
    1
  1606. But the land is mostly uninhabitable.
    1
  1607. Poverty is not the root but a consequence.
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  1608.  @madguitarist  <Tax the rich Tax big businesses. Tax landlords, slumlords, realtors, bankers, and property management firms more and proportionally to the rate of inflation. Make post-secondary education publicly funded and eliminate student loan debt. Most of all...pump money into small business, EI, CPP, disability, and veteran support programs.> Taxing the rich hurts the poor in the long run especially when there's no more rich to tax.
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  1609.  @madguitarist  <Billionaires hoarding more money than they circulate is bad for the economy.> But governments hoarding it is even worse.
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  1610.  @LolaRyck  But the minimum wage was barely $6 an hour.
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  1611.  @T1kr3b3u  <You talk to 6 figure income earners and they don't have kids, they say it's too expensive lol.> They're just being self-indulgent hedonists.
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  1612. For what? So you can become the ruling class?
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  1613.  @timtannahill9  Meet the new boss. Same as the old one.
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  1614.  @AwesomeSheep48  And the highest of them all. There's a reason companies don't hire just anyone and are leery of minimum wage increases especially smaller businesses.
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  1615. Then get some money so you can enjoy those rights.
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  1616. LOL
    1
  1617. Not at all. If anything this is socialism in opposition to life. There's barely anything free-market about Canada anymore.
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  1618. Exactly. Laziness, irresponsibility and entitlement.
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  1619. Not if the landlord is the NYCHA.
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  1620. At who's expense, Mr. Socialist?
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  1621. $105 is a fortune?
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  1622. Nunavut has no road access. Everything has to be flown in.
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  1623.  Army of Gog  Like the average North Korean.
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  1624.  @125alo  Fascism is an offspring of socialism.
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  1625. You can't build train tracks out there. They'll just crumble due to permafrost and the general lack of use.
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  1626. That's what happens when state-run anything is mismanaged and made insolvent.
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  1627. Being far more efficient when it comes down to it.
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  1628. They don't care, because most of them are property-owners themselves and so are the vast majority of their voter base.
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  1629. <The private sector failed to provide affordable housing> That was never the private sector's job to begin with. <The Ontario Government failed with its lifting of rent control.> Rent control enabled renovictions and short-term renting. <Housing must be primarily handled by government.> Just what Ontario needs. More Regent Parks and Jane & Finches.
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  1630. <We’ll be right back to private sector developers building homes too slowly just like the last 40 years.> Thanks to government meddling that made land acquisition and building costly.
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  1631.  @lynb1022  And tenants need to start taking their futures more seriously and buy their own house. The reason why they rent is because they can't handle the responsibilities of ownership and think it's someone else's job to do so on their behalf.
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  1632. Why should they? Not all of humanity is worth caring about.
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  1633. Exactly.
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  1634. That's because few people in North Korea even work at all and the economy is borderline non-existent.
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  1635.  @josephsmith594  And it's stagnating like one.
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  1636.  @thrillhouse7867  Not in Switzerland.
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  1637.  @Grant_S_M  Our PM is the cause of domestic inflation.
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  1638. What right-wingers? Left-wingers run Canada's cities. And British Columbia, Canada's most expensive province to live in, is run by left-wingers.
    1
  1639. And at the same time, time to force Canadians to stop being cheapskates and pay the real price for their goods.
    1
  1640.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  Yes. And the prices are barely any higher than they were last year.
    1
  1641.  @andrewtorrens7790  No. That would be the Carbon Tax.
    1
  1642.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  No Frills and Food Basic don't exist in Montreal where I live. I shop at PA (a local chain) and IGA.
    1
  1643.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  Toronto has a higher average salary.
    1
  1644.  @edward8972  Tenants are entitled. Thinking they have a God-given right to live in a place they don't own and/or can't afford and expect someone else to bear the costs on their behalf.
    1
  1645.  @edward8972  And neither are you. Why don't YOU get over yourself?
    1
  1646.  @justinbarton8808  Whose food food was either donated or paid for out of their own pockets.
    1
  1647. And mismanage then like the government already with CN before having to privatize.
    1
  1648. <We aren’t the US but as we remove protections to our industries we quickly are becoming the 51st state.> Which is what Canada is without Quebec. Justin's step-father was right about (English) Canada having no culture.
    1
  1649. Exactly.
    1
  1650. Not really. Investors are the reason any new housing is built or invested in at all. Government meddling made affordable housing costly and all but completely illegal.
    1
  1651. But Canada is too spineless for that. After all, it was founded on "Peace, order and good government."
    1
  1652.  @daleweiss9507  Gatineau and Montreal.
    1
  1653. <Just look at Japan and Korea.> But have way too many old people to take care of.
    1
  1654. It works for Venezuelans.
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  1655.  @boshkodjordjevich7424  <This is a great example how unchecked and unregulated private power, leads to gross abuses in market behaviour. > Not really. This is a consequence of Canada's market being over-regulated.
    1
  1656.  @pl1532  Wrong! Governments are too stingy.
    1
  1657. Not enough workers.
    1
  1658. They haven't been since 2006.
    1
  1659. The government is largely the reason for the problem.
    1
  1660.  @larkascending  <It will also attract yet more non-White legal and illegal immigration> Just like Germany, Sweden, France and Italy.
    1
  1661. <but refuse to create jobs here.> Due to high taxes and bureaucracy.
    1
  1662.  @asrafulhaque6295  Who will happily do the job for less if it means they don't have to live in their home countries anymore.
    1
  1663.  @oneguy4253  Pretty much.
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  1664. But also by doing this, the value of a post-secondary education is cheapened. <yes, I am talking a socialiste society> Where just about everything is worthless.
    1
  1665. Then you better not complain about landlords taking back their property since by renting you don't own the place.
    1
  1666. In North Korea, the average person is barred from living in the capital. Only the ruling class and tourists live there.
    1
  1667. Yeah! So people can pee it all away and then end up broke and hungry again. Tax corporations more and what the costs get passed down to the consumer.
    1
  1668. Take that up with your provincial Premier. It was his/her idea to shut down small business and allow big business to stay open.
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  1669.  @ianmackie8959  Yeah! And?
    1
  1670. But local zoning laws do not allow it. Also high real estate values and bureaucracy all but completely ensure it will not be affordable to build if you were allowed to.
    1
  1671. Doug Ford is not the PM. And Canada Post belongs to the federal government.
    1
  1672. No. Government has done more than enough damage with its intervention.
    1
  1673. How about no?
    1
  1674.  @PyeGuySailing  No. Afraid that we will run into shortage issues like what Zimbabwe and Venezuela did when they tried what you advocate.
    1
  1675. Who's nobody?
    1
  1676. <No.2 put in price controls for every food item in Canada and roll back prices> Only to result in production declines and shortages when producers get bankrupted.
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  1677. One problem, though. The rich made the middle class.
    1
  1678. How do you build a rail line across permafrost and deep sea?
    1
  1679.  @simba8665  <older people who are not able to retire.> Because they didn't save during their working years.
    1
  1680. This is what social democracy and welfare state encourage and promote.
    1
  1681. This is the God and religion-free secular humanist society you voted for.
    1
  1682. But for now, it's greedy ordinary people paying for their living beyond their means and not saving/investing for their own futures.
    1
  1683.  @somedude1934  BS!
    1
  1684. And get restricted on what you can access.
    1
  1685. @patc3650 Exactly.
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  1686.  @Grant_S_M  The TFW program is a government initiative.
    1
  1687. Immigration including student visas are under the federal government's authority.
    1
  1688.  @ontariofirs7347  The Persian Gulf has UBI, but foreigners need not apply.
    1
  1689. And the insane rent prices are the result of insane taxes, inflation, interest rates, etc.
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  1690.  @pacificlub  <Canada's big companies monopolize the market. > Thanks to government meddling. <Small and medium-sized companies don't have much room for development.> The consequences of high taxes and bureaucracy.
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  1691. Or lucking enough to get city housing.
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  1692. The middle class.
    1
  1693. Define right thing.
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  1694. Canada follows America, because it needs America for its economic viability and military protection.
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  1695.  @bramptonjeff81  Sanctions are not responsible for mismanagement and Chavez and Maduro killing off local industry with free money and price controls.
    1
  1696.  @bramptonjeff81  <Cuba has been under a 60 yr embargo no food oil medicine allowed> Yet it didn't affect them much when the Soviet aid, Venezuelan oil, Canadian tourism and US remittances propped them up.
    1
  1697.  @bramptonjeff81  <LOL sanctions sanctions sanctions take off the sanctions and Venezuela would thrive wait> Like in 2014 and 15?
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  1698.  @travisbiko8990  Chile.
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  1699.  @bramptonjeff81  Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and poor policy.
    1
  1700. <General Agosto Pinochet in Chile.> Pinochet was a good thing for Chile in the long run going on to be the 6th wealthiest country in the Americas.
    1
  1701. Yet they can afford their debauched and hedonistic lifestyles. Canada has the world's highest household debt for a reason.
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  1702.  @ange-j6v  Liberals are the personification of evil.
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  1703. And the foods with any nutritional value due to the amount of time it takes to reach destination would rotted along the way having short shelf-lives.
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  1704. While impeding taxpayers' ability to buy food in the process.
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  1705. Montreal.
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  1706. Those already eligible for GST cheques.
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  1707.  @garywagner2466  That's just liberals being liberals.
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  1708. It's been that way since the mid 2000's.
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  1709. CBC is a propaganda machine for the Liberal Party of Canada. Not wealthy corporations.
    1
  1710. <Toronto is hardly a city anymore. It's a mecca for the rich and leisurely consumption.> Like every other city with some prestige. <longstanding austerity politics> Due to longstanding economic mismanagement.
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  1711. Actually yes it does.
    1
  1712. And end up like Venezuela with plenty of money but nothing to buy due to empty shelves.
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  1713. And apparently so do Canadians themselves.
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  1714.  @Malumbrus  Well, when push comes to shove, most Canadians just suck it up and deal with it.
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  1715. Thanks to provincial government subsidies.
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  1716. Pierre Trudeau would have been so proud.
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  1717. Pretty much. Government over-regulation enabled AirBnB's existence.
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  1718. But apparently, some people think they're above that.
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  1719. No. Government is. And the biggest part of them all.
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  1720.  @abalister6661  <Government backed out of it.> Chretien and Martin Liberal government baked out.
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  1721.  @josephd.5524  , <it's the CEOs and Landlords who don't do any work who still want all the money.> Because they own the business/property. Plus, their position entail way more responsibility than the average worker/tenant and don't work the standard 8-hour day/40-hour week.
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  1722. Not exactly.
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  1723.  @ShidaiTaino  WTF are YOU smoking?
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  1724.  @tombottle8041  Yet British Columbia, a perennial Liberal/NDP stronghold and currently have an NDP Premier, stands alone as having the worst of the worst housing crisis.
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  1725.  @tombottle8041  So does Quebec and yet its housing crisis pales in comparison.
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  1726. But it's not due to high taxes and over-regulation.
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  1727. Neither do the people themselves preferring to live in squalor for a handout than earn a living doing something productive.
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  1728. Or if Canada had no welfare.
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  1729.  @CarFreeSegnitz  <Every level of government is terrified of the solution: building enough public housing. It will house everyone but at the same time it will (and must) pop the real estate market.> And make everything more costly in the long run requiring higher taxes and more subsidies. <There are huge institutional investors in real estate making huge profits which is at the root of the problem. Their profits suck resources away from build enough housing. They won’t do it themselves because doing so would tank their existing investment.> No. The real root of the problem is the government restrictions on housing supply which allows in the end only the richest of the rich to build anything.
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  1730. Apparently humans prefer convenience even at the expense of privacy.
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  1731. <One of the smallest countries in the world as well. Yet there 70% of the population lives in public housing.> Because Singapore hardly has any land to grow its own food let alone build anything other than public housing. <Austria too is one of the richest countries in the world, yet more than half of the population lives in public housing.> And?
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  1732. Many of the smaller outlets were founded by the Big 3.
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  1733. And rightfully so. No one is building or renting anything for free or in the developers' case at a loss.
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  1734. As what? China's tax-haven?
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  1735.  @robertkartechner5850  Or the poster must be managing his/her money well.
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  1736. Too many taxes and restrictions.
    1
  1737. Exactly.
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  1738. Pretty much.
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  1739.  @eletakelley7188  They already do and then some.
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  1740. No it shouldn't just like living in the city you can't afford is not a human right.
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  1741. No. Our government has done enough damage.
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  1742. No. The government is the ultimate monopoly.
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  1743.  @piku5637  Starting with you.
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  1744. Good for you, but not everyone can farm or really need to. Hence, commercial farming. Grocery stores are a necessity in the city.
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  1745.  @guymontag2948  <If everyone has their own little plot, it's just far less space and labor efficient. Besides, as I mentioned, I personally don't want to live an agrarian lifestyle, and certainly not at my latitude.> Haiti actually tried that after independence only to reinstate slavery, because a lot of people starved.
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  1746. And most voters are ignorant and apathetic.
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  1747. LOL.
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  1748. Rent control didn't work as it discouraged new housing from being built and jacked up the prices for whatever housing was available.
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  1749.  @mikeb5664  In reaction to how far-left Canada has gone under Trudeau.
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  1750. How are grocery stores being greedy when the Carbon Tax and other restrictions the cost of getting food from their suppliers and producers?
    1
  1751. Exactly.
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  1752. Plus, Canada is oversized and underpopulated which means higher shipping costs, especially within Canada.
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  1753.  @coopsnz1  And social democracy encourages (government-protected) monopolies.
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  1754.  @Raidersfan-gn7zo  LOL. Vote NDP = vote for a bankrupt and unrecognizable society. There's a reason why until very recently, they were a one-term party.
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  1755. Metro is its own entity founded and run by Quebecers.
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  1756. Who only make up 10% of Canada's population.
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  1757. Starting with the current ruling Liberal government.
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  1758. Or condos.
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  1759. <tell them Canadians are coming for them,> LOL.
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  1760. Cops primary function: serve the government.
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  1761. How is it a right when you can be denied housing?
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  1762.  Darlene Sjostrom  No. It's a direct result of Maduro's business-killing policies coupled with his oil cash cow drying up.
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  1763. Drake, NHL, NBA and MLB players, urban professionals, big business employees, local politicians, etc.
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  1764. All owned by the big 3. Fido (Rogers), Koodo (Telus) and Virgin (Bell).
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  1765. Housing became more available though less affordable.
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  1766. They have a budgeting problem.
    1
  1767. But most local students are in no position to pay full tuition.
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  1768. Due to the ever-increasing land values and property taxes along with people moving in.
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  1769. Affordable = to an urban professional. <When the Government has stopped building> During the Chretien and Martin years.
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  1770.  @abc10927  In proportion its population, Canada is just plain oversized. And its cities are too far away from each other.
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  1771. The British ----ed up by asking them to help them fight off the US in 1812.
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  1772. With the housing built before 2018.
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  1773. There's a reason why Chretien got the government out of the social housing business once he took office.
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  1774. So did African slaves. But their living conditions left plenty to be desired. Plus, Neanderthals had to make their own homes.
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  1775. Take that up with your Premier and Mayor.
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  1776.  @marcusmossuto  Indeed. And then the poster wonders why people want out of India.
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  1777. Better than socialism's problems as found in the average government-run housing.
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  1778.  @Redspittingcobra  LOL. Socialism helps society stagnate and regress together.
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  1779. Too keep operating costs low for farmers and retail prices low for consumers.
    1
  1780. Exactly.
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  1781.  @canadabear72  No. That's exactly what it is. Government intervention making everything expensive and scarce so that only the richest of the rich can build and own.
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  1782. Toronto = the world?
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  1783.  @nicklegend2271  The Western world that is.
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  1784. Not really. Europe can get lower-cost service because less infrastructure has to be built and maintained and it's densely populated.
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  1785. Like what? Extorting locals with higher taxes?
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  1786. Not really. It's just the greater Toronto and Vancouver areas with such a crisis.
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  1787. <Cities and provinces can raise taxes and pass regulations to address housing> Only to exacerbate the problem with housing either being scarce or too costly.
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  1788. Capitalism has worked and still does. The problem with Canada is too much socialism in the economy.
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  1789. We don't do HST in Quebec. It's 5% GST and 9.975% QST.
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  1790.  @mikehunt-fx7sf  Where they can't embarrass the government.
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  1791.  @wanderrice3345  Or you can cut immigration as the big cities have only so much space to go around for everyone trying to move in.
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  1792. $317 left for food and other things.
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  1793. China's corporations are owned by friends, family and others favored by the ruling CCP if not the ruling CCP members themselves.
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  1794. <We are not as important of a country as some of us think we are.> Exactly. Canada is just another country living off of US largesse.
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  1795. This is the socialism and big government you voted for.
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  1796. Immigration is under Ottawa's authority. And if Quebec dares to do anything about it, it will get threatened with a lawsuit just like Arizona did when Obama ran the US.
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  1797. Especially solutions that might conflict with its bottom-line.
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  1798. Just so you can piss it all away and end up right back to square one?
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  1799. And neither does the working class as soon as they get a better-paying gig and can afford to move out to a better part of town.
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  1800. No and not even close.
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  1801. But collecting the tax revenues.
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  1802. Well, the money has to come from somewhere to cover the costs. And the locals are clearly in no position to pay them.
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  1803. Then get ready to pay more for your goods, you greedy cheapskate commoners.
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  1804. Like where exactly? British Columbia whose housing crisis is even worse?
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  1805. Transportation costs?
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  1806. Single adults, especially men are not a priority to the government.
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  1807.  @DarrellBrooks69  It figures. You're probably paying the price for not saving or investing during your working years.
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  1808.  @parkerbohnn  You mean just like in Cuba where the middle class live in Miami.
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  1809. BC has nothing on Quebec when it comes to co-op housing.
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  1810.  @rajramaghoo661  LOL.
    1
  1811. Singles, swallow your pride and hitch up.
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  1812.  @IgnoreMeImWrong  Find a roommate or SO.
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  1813. Only to go bankrupt because that affordable food isn't enough to cover basic operating expenses.
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  1814. Not nearly as much as the government is with their zoning and supply restrictions.
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  1815.  @GreenBeanGreenBean  Exactly.
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  1816.  @_Just_Another_Guy  Or invest in some driving lessons and get a car.
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  1817. With that money going to Rogers because they own Fido.
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  1818.  @geo-pi3zo  It's a religion unto itself.
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  1819.  @piku5637  Which would require massive government subsidies as many will be mismanaged and insolvent.
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  1820.  @caffeineandsleepingpills  No it isn't. And inflation is caused by excessive government spending and money-printing.
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  1821. And rightfully so. They're running a business, not a charity.
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  1822. What about the other 80%?
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  1823.  @cvanunen  Apparently.
    1
  1824. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
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  1825.  @jessatesta  <I can see that being hustled out of a hearing thanks to threats from an enraged mob of entitled home owners > And rightfully so as they're responsible for most of the taxes paid that fill the city's coffers.
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  1826. So are most customers. Rude and nasty.
    1
  1827. They work for the government, the ultimate corporation.
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  1828. <but the people in the North pay excessive grocery prices> Because it costs an arm and leg to ship anything there. Plus, the population in the North just isn't big enough to support lower prices.
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  1829. Living in the city is a privilege.
    1
  1830. Pretty much.
    1
  1831. No more than the Mayor is.
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  1832. Canada is too decentralized for its own good.
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  1833. Starting with the ruling Liberal-NDP government.
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  1834. Don't you just love bureaucracy? It priced and regulated everyone else out of the market so that only the big-time entities can be in.
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  1835. A social safety net costs a lot of money to maintain.
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  1836. The real cause of the problem is the government, not the grocers.
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  1837. Sean Penn.
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  1838. Due to Canada's lax immigration policies.
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  1839. <you can't hope for buyers/owners (capitalists) to just do the right thing and forego profits.> Because they're not a charity. And even charities have to turn in profits if only to prove their viability.
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  1840. No. Canada is much further along than the US.
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  1841. Who's us? Not everyone blames the rich for their personal failures.
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  1842. No we don't.
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  1843.  @mstar7520  But what good is that if thanks to getting taxed, you still won't be able to afford it?
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  1844. Don't you just love secular humanism?
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  1845.  @jerrykobylt7387  But salaries are lower in Manitoba.
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  1846. But Edmonton = Liberal/NDP stronghold.
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  1847. Ditto for Quebec.
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  1848. All governments are property-owners themselves and their policies are part of the reason housing is expensive.
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  1849. Yeah! And watch inflation hit rendering that money worthless.
    1
  1850. But this love and compassion is why Canada is in this mess.
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  1851.  @curtisw0234  Case in point: the USSR after Khrushchev.
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  1852. How can they when it costs them a fortune to have the food transported over?
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  1853. Because Liberal/left-wing economic policies are an all-out assault on the private sector, workers and bosses alike.
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  1854.  @ellieeveritt  That's not the landlord's problem. You need to take that up with your workplace employer.
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  1855. <There should be a flat reasonable price to pay rent especially for those places that don't get repaired or renovated at all or have bugs or mice> Like what city housing already has?
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  1856. Because the record profits are a by-product of record inflation which is well within the government's control.
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  1857. New Zealand among developed countries has the most homelessness per capita.
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  1858. And become another Venezuela in the process.
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  1859.  @on2thenextthing  Exactly.
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  1860. But Edmonton is Liberal/NDP paradise.
    1
  1861. Government intervention is the reason why we have this problem in the first place.
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  1862.  @j.w.2391  But the Harper Conservative did. Lowered the GST from 7 to 5%.
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  1863. All they're interested in assimilation.
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  1864.  @johngawrylash7732  Rent control = lack of availability even if you're willing/able to pay higher prices.
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  1865.  @johngawrylash7732  Because the cost to build it was "too" high.
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  1866.  @pattygould8240  It has come and went. And by the way, the government scrapped it.
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  1867.  @tony--james  No. The NDP have always been and always will be the worst. Is there one province they didn't bankrupt when they got elected to govern?
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  1868. Hardly. That's just a small price to pay to live in high-demand area.
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  1869. 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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  1870.  @ramsaybolton9151  And waste whatever they take from the haves eventually reverting back to have-not status.
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  1871. Or company charges more to compensate for the miniscule customer base it has. It doesn't have the economy of scale to compete with the companies in the city with a much bigger base.
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  1872.  @GinaPaolaRueda  I presume the poster lives in New Brunswick as $14.75/hour was mentioned.
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  1873.  @vmitchinson  That's because the independent grocery store doesn't have the money or floor space to get merchandise in bulk at cut-rate prices on top of having a limited customer base.
    1
  1874. Like where exactly?
    1
  1875.  @tophat2115  LOL. The same Portland that's losing business to rampant crime and Seattle being San Francisco-lite?
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  1876. I presume you're on social assistance, because a full-time minimum-wage worker makes 3x that per month. And for the record, no it shouldn't be as how is that fair and why should anyone able to work full-time be paying the rents of those who are not in addition to their own rent?
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  1877. Canada Post is state-owned.
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  1878.  @yxeaviationphotog  <They don't give you enough to live off of.....> And that's a good thing that serves as an incentive to do something productive.
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  1879. Enabled and enforced by the government.
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  1880. Not really. It's due to Canada having a far smaller and sparsely populated consumer base. The higher prices are to compensate for the lower sales volume coupled with a perennially weak CAD.
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  1881. Thanks to government over-regulation making long-term rentals financially non-viable.
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  1882.  @bill...9566  Exactly.
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  1883. Still seething, Dipper?
    1
  1884. This is on the Mayor and City Council.
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  1885. And then you wonder why tax havens exist.
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  1886. And governments in the form of kickbacks.
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  1887. No they shouldn't. PTFU or GTFO.
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  1888. Yet they swear it was a failure when conservative leaders practiced it.
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  1889. They're not Canadian.
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  1890. Namely 34% of Canadians.
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  1891. Namely their liberal paymasters.
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  1892. Just like tenants are irresponsible children who think it's someone else's job to hold their hand.
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  1893. That's because the government mandated them through the carbon and fuel tax.
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  1894. LOL. Government meddling exacerbated and enabled the crisis.
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  1895.  @ChillyDippers  Sorry, little guy, but the government is the ultimate problem.
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  1896. No. Greed is just a manifestation of pride, the greatest sin of them all.
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  1897. 2nd lowest minimum wage in the country.
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  1898. But 89% of the land is Crown-owned and the vast majority of the population only want to live in the cities.
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  1899. LOL. No. You're free to go live in the woods or small town.
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  1900. Because the poor are a burden. <Raise the GIS by at least 700 a month, same with income support rates.> Which only means higher taxes on anyone who works and/or produces for a living to support it.
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  1901. Yes. Counting the money made from property taxes.
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  1902. Housing was never a right. And in a lot of dictatorships, the poor just live in makeshift shacks outside the capitals and resort towns.
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  1903. Nope. Try government greed with the carbon and fuel tax they imposed on producers and distributors jacking up the costs for so-called corporations to get the food on the shelves.
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  1904. But Elon barely spent a day in Canada before establishing himself in the US.
    1
  1905. Exactly.
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  1906. You probably live beyond your means.
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  1907. Are Canadian consumers willing to pay a living price?
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  1908. Blame the British for letting them keep their customs and traditions instead of assimilating them.
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  1909. Because low-cost airlines in Canada = financially non-viable.
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  1910. He much rather be homeless in Canada than live under Erdogan.
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  1911. Take it up with your provincial legislature.
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  1912.  @takeadayofff  Delaware's a country?
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  1913. And so is its alternative based on envy and entitlement.
    1
  1914.  @savoirancien4093  Your ancestors should not have agreed to fight for the British against the US invasion in 1812.
    1
  1915.  @rachelk8368  Yet they are to a lot of boomers.
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  1916. France got 1st.
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  1917.  @reneb3063  Especially in the cities.
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  1918.  @AK-pz7om  But no one envies the EU's immigration policies.
    1
  1919. It worked in New Zealand. Under leftist leadership as well.
    1
  1920. And who are those "money-hungry thieves" by the way? It's not just the transportation costs. It's also the low customer base companies are selling to.
    1
  1921. Because Canadians traded family and future for lifestyle and career.
    1
  1922. Exactly.
    1
  1923. <as most do not accept CASH! > Like Pharmaprix and Jean Coutu.
    1
  1924. Air BnB became a thing, because the government made long-term renting unviable with rent control and lopsided laws in favor of tenants.
    1
  1925. Exactly.
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  1926.  @justadude117X  No. Government greed is.
    1
  1927. The free market does exist. It's not the free market's fault that the North is next to impossible to do business in due to its inaccessibility and remoteness.
    1
  1928. Or their self-indulgent parents.
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  1929. Shipping costs.
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  1930. <in a more human rights friendly way.> Which in and of itself is unsustainable. Who exactly is this going to come at the expense of?
    1
  1931. There's barely anything capitalist about Justin Trudeau and the current ruling Liberal Party.
    1
  1932. Pretty much.
    1
  1933. <The standard across the world should be if you provide a service you should be paid enough to be able to afford the same service you’re providing every day> No. You can do that by starting your own business and being a boss.
    1
  1934. Because building costs are expensive and there are plenty of people willing and able to pay more than most for access to said buildings.
    1
  1935. No. If you make 35K, after taxes you'll be left with $28K.
    1
  1936. The unvaxxed pay taxes too and are every bit entitled to healthcare, unless you're willing to refund all their money to compensate for them having to pay out of pocket. And speaking of such, isn't that what private healthcare is for that the average Canadian is so vehemently against?
    1
  1937. Who's most people?
    1
  1938.  @fofal  I grew up with a toilet, yet I don't need 2 jobs to get by.
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  1939.  @PhotojournalistTV  FreshCo = owned by Sobeys. Food Basics = owned by Metro.
    1
  1940. No we don't. Either produce or buy your own.
    1
  1941.  @franceleeparis37  America funds the UN.
    1
  1942. Because there are plenty of old buildings to go around?
    1
  1943. There's MAID.
    1
  1944. The government caused and enabled the problem.
    1
  1945. Inequality is not a real issue as some will always have it better than others.
    1
  1946. Because the government taxed and regulated the competition out of the market.
    1
  1947. Housing never was a human right to begin with.
    1
  1948.  @thatsenoughoutofyou  Because Canada doesn't have the military personnel to defend the North against Russia.
    1
  1949. No. Because people are ignorant to the economic reality of their own country as Canada's CEO's are nothing compared to US ones and Canada taxes any attempt to get rich which is why most Canadian CEO's make around half a million a year at most.
    1
  1950. <We need the Robin Hood mentality to prevail in Canada> And ensure future poverty when you run out of other people's money to steal under the guise of social justice.
    1
  1951. Like in Quebec?
    1
  1952. And say HELLO to shortages.
    1
  1953. Food in the South is not expensive, because it is well-populated and is connected to major transport routes.
    1
  1954. <Less students should mean less costs to.> Less students = higher costs to make up for the losses or more programs and courses eliminated.
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  1955. That went out the window when they decided to vote for Justin's daddy en masse.
    1
  1956. But British Columbia is the worst of them all. And it's an NDP stronghold.
    1
  1957. <they raised prices!!!> Because the government raised the taxes and restrictions on them and their suppliers making it cost more just to get the merchandise into the stores.
    1
  1958. Just like his step-father did. They were both trust-fund babies.
    1
  1959. Poverty alleviation or poverty exacerbation?
    1
  1960. There are only so many high-paying jobs to go around. And university is overrated as not everyone needs to be there.
    1
  1961. It's 3 to 7K CAD.
    1
  1962.  @Nitishr1992  Yet vote for the same politicians and policies that caused them to flee New York and California. New York and California have the excuses of being desirable places to live, home to Big Tech, the film industry, banking, entertainment industry, etc.
    1
  1963. Government made affordable housing costly and unviable.
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  1964. But Nunavut isn't big enough to support more competition.
    1
  1965. Or had the foresight and discipline to manage their money wisely.
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  1966.  @brenfu4982  They make up 66% of the population.
    1
  1967.  @halinaqi2194  All because the WHO ignored Taiwan and only listened to China when China could no longer cover it up.
    1
  1968. <Normalize co-ops for services etc we need.> As in mismanagement and negligence.
    1
  1969. <inflation happened> Thanks to government overspending and money over-printing.
    1
  1970. Just like the provinces did with their COVID mandates and lockdowns.
    1
  1971. What about the record inflation and costs they had to bear just to achieve said record profits caused by government policy?
    1
  1972.  @hayhay2640  3% margin = gouging?
    1
  1973. <BS, what we need is government rent contro> We already have that. And you would not want to be the person looking for housing as rent control = near 0% vacancy rate.
    1
  1974. Exactly.
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  1975. Use price control and you won't have too many places to spend your money at.
    1
  1976. That's because it's not the developer's job to build affordable housing. Besides, affordable housing = loss.
    1
  1977. Nunavut is in the Arctic. Nothing can be grown there.
    1
  1978. People can afford them. Namely urban professionals, yuppies and students from well-to-do families both local and foreign.
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  1979.  @yathi  Renting condos make sense for those who know they'll be moving out in 5 years.
    1
  1980.  Aella-ny9hu  <May people find joy in smaller & more affordable homes.> There is no joy to be found in cramped living conditions or homes being affordable only because a lot of corners were cut.
    1
  1981. But the thing about the North is that barely anyone lives there to begin with so costs have to be raised to compensate for the low sales volume.
    1
  1982. No. They offered too little.
    1
  1983. And their employees too?
    1
  1984.  @milhouse8166  But municipal governments made that costly.
    1
  1985. They're already flourishing. Homelessness is just a side effect as they big city is not for everyone.
    1
  1986.  @TheMaiah13  So is living in cramped and overcrowded spaces.
    1
  1987. Namely fellow libs. LOL
    1
  1988.  @jasondrummond9451  No. The real problem is the government bureaucracy that restricts supply which ensures that only the richest of the rich are allowed to buy property and/or build anything.
    1
  1989. Canada is too vast for that. It's easier for other countries to have standard fixed pricing since they have less territory needed to cover.
    1
  1990. I doubt it as most hospitals are government-run.
    1
  1991. So are property taxes.
    1
  1992. Due to vaccine mandates and having their jobs and workplaces deemed "non-essential" subject to shutdown.
    1
  1993.  @bonbonvegabon  Like those in DTES Vancouver?
    1
  1994. Nationwide shortages. Just like Venezuela and North Korea.
    1
  1995. LOL. Hong Kong is the world's most unaffordable place to live and has the very same issues with XX-year-long waiting lists for affordable housing.
    1
  1996. LOL. Who told you that? <The con is they deleted the social responsibility of the business, they are supposed to offer jobs to community not take them away.>
    1
  1997. They would have to admit that feminism and mass immigration were destructive in the long run.
    1
  1998. Enabled by Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
    1
  1999. No. Vancouver is even worse.
    1
  2000. I didn't know Danielle Smith was the Mayor of Edmonton.
    1
  2001.  @mildntender  Um. No. Canada does not need a housing shortage.
    1
  2002. Exactly.
    1
  2003. Even Marx and Lenin acknowledged capitalism as the better system as socialism needs capitalism just for the illusion of viability.
    1
  2004. He made housing available.
    1
  2005. Or Montreal and Plattsburgh.
    1
  2006.  @JackieBillyTom  Tax the rich does not mean what they think it means.
    1
  2007. Would that rich include the ruling NDP themselves?
    1
  2008. Marxist indoctrination camps to be exact.
    1
  2009.  @Osprey23-o8l  And ignorant voters.
    1
  2010. Canadian Airlines? I thought it went under a long time ago.
    1
  2011. LOL. China's healthcare system is near the bottom.
    1
  2012.  @stephaniebaird3931  LOL
    1
  2013. Aside from getting annexed, nothing really.
    1
  2014. Seal, fish and caribou hunting.
    1
  2015. Price control does not work unless you don't mind shortages and high prices (anyway) for whatever's left.
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  2016. That's city housing.
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  2017. How? They're just trying to recoup all the costs of having to ship the products out in the middle of nowhere.
    1
  2018.  @d.r.tweedstweeddale9038  Yet it's blue cities that have a crime problem.
    1
  2019. Exactly.
    1
  2020. LOL. You know the government is the reason why this problem exist in the first place, right?
    1
  2021. Taxes go up.
    1
  2022. But Canada's healthcare is among the bottom tier.
    1
  2023. Yet the majority only want to live in the cities.
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  2024. Not everyone can or need to farm. Plus, there is only so much farmable land to go around.
    1
  2025. Rent control made Air BnB.
    1
  2026. And bureaucracy.
    1
  2027. LMBO.
    1
  2028.  @johnnygoodman2003  Rent is the least of their problems.
    1
  2029.  @hs.6ix  Keep them around and this country = Argentina.
    1
  2030. The courts.
    1
  2031. Now we don't. And the government "stepping in" is why things have gotten expensive in the first place.
    1
  2032.  @kylecgobel  No it wouldn't. Canada doesn't need anymore people collecting cheques just for existing at all.
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  2033.  @todoldtrafford  Limited land availability, high land value, taxes and restrictions, etc.
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  2034. And say HELLO to less housing availability along with higher prices for what isn't under rent control. <Landlords are proving corrupt and money hungry to the detriment of every renter in the country> Not really. And renters only make up 34% of the population.
    1
  2035. They were exempted from the Ban.
    1
  2036. Exactly.
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  2037. The same companies that make most of their revenues from royalties and real estate as wages are only an issue with franchise-owners and managers?
    1
  2038. From Quebec.
    1
  2039.  @bradcanning875  Justin Trudeau is a conservative now? Liberals are every bit pro-big business.
    1
  2040. And what is that exactly going to accomplish especially when there will be nothing left to mass-loot?
    1
  2041. Thanks to the Liberals.
    1
  2042. But there are too many people depending on their over-spending for their survival.
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  2043.  @zabmcauley5647  A solid 70% of Canadians drive and have no problem affording a vehicle.
    1
  2044. Those areas hardly have any people to begin with.
    1
  2045.  @DW-op7ly  It figures. Leftist provinces hate their own people and love outsiders.
    1
  2046. And how do you expect them to do that in the face of rising production and transport costs?
    1
  2047.  @marcusmossuto  And protect Quebec and Ontario jobs.
    1
  2048.  @Robsta42  Which is chump change in the grand scheme of things.
    1
  2049. Plus the land and permit fees.
    1
  2050.  @coopsnz1  Nah. Australia's real problem is geography.
    1
  2051. Government greed is even higher.
    1
  2052. Which in turn means further housing shortages and no new building.
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  2053. What's so unregulated about crony capitalism? There is hardly anything unregulated about the telecommunications industry in Canada. Just ask Verizon.
    1
  2054. Because the government loves power.
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  2055. Invest in public healthcare = invest in administrators like in Quebec.
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  2056. Enabled by government greed in the form of Carbon Tax and regulations on producers.
    1
  2057.  @jays5926  It's to destroy Alberta and Saskatchewan.
    1
  2058. Quebec is the least charitable province in Canada.
    1
  2059. And is home to some of the best overall healthcare in the world.
    1
  2060. America overall is safe. Just not the locales run by Democrats.
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  2061. Enabled by socialist policies like rent control and tenants' rights.
    1
  2062. LOL @ real people. Real people that long bent over and spread those cheeks for the government and big business for a mere pittance of security.
    1
  2063.  @douglas724  Hardly.
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  2064.  @msbebelle07  Condos are not expensive. They're just not made for the low-income crowd.
    1
  2065. <its not the tenants jobs to bail you out.> Just like it's not the landlords' job to bail out tenants who can't manage their finances enough to afford the rent being charged.
    1
  2066. Misinformation according to who exactly?
    1
  2067. Price controls do not work unless you want shortages.
    1
  2068.  @KMCA779  <Schools need money.> Because they don't have legacy funding or support from (insert multi-billion-dollar private company).
    1
  2069.  @hindcanada1  But Canada was a hell lot better off under Harper.
    1
  2070.  @hindcanada1  I wasn't rich during the Harper years, but I enjoyed the biggest tax refunds and credits under him. Public Transit tax credit and WITC for the win.
    1
  2071.  @icantwiththis  For the most part, they do.
    1
  2072. What free shipping? Amazon is subsidized by Canada Post.
    1
  2073. <The big Grocers get away with it because they think that we need them.> Well, we do. Especially those who live in a city.
    1
  2074. What about the addicts who assault and rob the general public for the money to fund their habit?
    1
  2075. LOL. And where exactly is the money going to come from to pay for it?
    1
  2076.  @Eminetics  Yet BC still has the highest rent and homelessness rate in the country.
    1
  2077.  @SnowWhite-hr4ho  Yes there is. Housing built before 2018 in Ontario are still under rent control.
    1
  2078. Women gotta have their cosmetics, you know!
    1
  2079. And eventual shortages.
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  2080.  @on2thenextthing  Who much rather live with that than under Conservative leadership.
    1
  2081. But in the North, growing your own food is just not a viable option.
    1
  2082. It makes perfect sense. And Nunavut, the place in question, is an island.
    1
  2083.  @Etaoinshrdlu69  <And a lack socialism prevents the government from building social housing.> Social housing = ghettos and slums. And socialism is the reason why there's a housing shortage in the first place. Zoning and supply restrictions.
    1
  2084. Not even close. It may be brutal but it's anything but failed. Try Haiti or Somalia.
    1
  2085. <Problem is a bunch of spineless political Elites he won't do what's necessary to help Canadians.> Enabled and elected by equally spineless Canadians.
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  2086. <We need to talk about over-population too. > That's not a real issue as no place on Earth is truly over-populated. It only seems like so because most people generally go where the jobs, support and services are. which happen to be the big cities that can have only so many people living there at once.
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  2087. Air BnB is a consequence of rent control.
    1
  2088. For some, that's better than dying in a waiting room, because the hospital didn't deem them enough of a priority to treat. Never mind the understaffing and underfunding.
    1
  2089. <expect tuition to rise.> In the form of provincial subsidies cut.
    1
  2090. No more than we should be proud of our government that is infantilizing and overtaxing us at the same time.
    1
  2091.  @lynnca1972  <NDP is the only party that wants to raise ODSP to a liveable amount who also has a chance of forming provincial government.> And leave the province bankrupt like they did under Bob Rae.
    1
  2092. Whatever, eugenicist!
    1
  2093.  @coopsnz1  And the elderly.
    1
  2094. Tax grocery store profits and and Canadians won't have anywhere to buy food at.
    1
  2095. Canada is the 2nd largest country in terms of land-size, not population. Population-wise, Canada is 37th.
    1
  2096.  @rainorshine7816  They're not my size.
    1
  2097. Because government policy allowed it and real estate accounts for a good portion of Canada's GDP revenues.
    1
  2098. Except the left.
    1
  2099.  @carenthusiast4984  LOL. Taxing them =more money take out of the pockets of Canadians to compensate. <Greed is a major factor with these companies.> Also with ignorant Canadians alongside envy.
    1
  2100. I thought they were emptying out.
    1
  2101. LOL. The government is the reason for the housing market's current situation.
    1
  2102. But where is the new labor and tax base going to come from to pay for the pensions of and take over for those aging out of the workforce?
    1
  2103.  @Amanda-mv2xx  With Quebec having the lowest tuition of them all.
    1
  2104. The same GST that helped get Canada out of the financial gutter Trudeau Sr. put it in.
    1
  2105. Because the government priced and regulated the competition out of the market leaving corporations to fill the void.
    1
  2106. The unintended consequences of government intervention pricing and regulating mom-and-pop owners out of the market leaving corporations to fill fill the void.
    1
  2107. Like any self-respecting business.
    1
  2108.  @ToppyTree  It's not the wealthy's fault the poor didn't have the foresight to start their own business and monetize their own labor.
    1
  2109. No. Rent control is part of the reason why a housing shortage exists.
    1
  2110. You have the big government you voted for.
    1
  2111. Like in Zimbabwe.
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  2112. This is what is meant by "tax the rich."
    1
  2113. Wealthy suburbanites are not responsible for 89% of Canada's land being Crown-owned.
    1
  2114.  @savagepaul-  Not really. The government is the rich.
    1
  2115.  @Khymeira  Or Hawaii.
    1
  2116. And people live beyond their means.
    1
  2117. And find yourself at the unemployment line by next month.
    1
  2118. But Montreal has rent control.
    1
  2119.  @catherinetong5994  Most of the poor have cell phones.
    1
  2120. LOL. Doctors have to eat and pay bills too. Only the financially secure do anything for the love.
    1
  2121. Government meddling is part of the reason rent is unaffordable.
    1
  2122. That the people happily paid for and supported?
    1
  2123. With the resources used to make the batteries for them done with child labor.
    1
  2124. <is because of our own issues and that its’ our problem and that we need to figure it out ourselves.> It may not be the only reason, but we ourselves do play an active and prominent role in why we're in this mess.
    1
  2125. <Rent is going up because people need somewhere to live and there isn't enough housing for people.> Namely in the cities and especially the most desirable ones.
    1
  2126. Professors = left-wing Marxist ideologues.
    1
  2127. <instead of fixing the source of the problem - international money laundering.> Thanks to lax immigration laws.
    1
  2128. Kitchener = close proximity to Toronto.
    1
  2129.  @bobinabuddy  But Canada had far less immigration then.
    1
  2130. Exactly.
    1
  2131. That's nothing compared to people in Quebec, the French part of Canada, pay. That plus 5% GST and 9.975% PST.
    1
  2132.  @darkbrightnorth  Like who exactly?
    1
  2133. Not if you voted for that government.
    1
  2134. Notice that the only countries that have state religion are either Muslim or Atheist?
    1
  2135. And watch the country go bankrupt like the provinces they ran in the past. No thanks.
    1
  2136. Canada's economic policies enable monopolies. Who knew that taxing the rich actually hurts the poor?
    1
  2137. But India is densely populated and the Rupee isn't worth that much.
    1
  2138. And Fentanyl.
    1
  2139. Not really. There are far more Americans to sell a product to than Canadians. Plus, the USD goes a lot farther in the US than the CAD does in Canada.
    1
  2140. And a monthly pass $97.00
    1
  2141.  @monl3807  With the customers paying in the end either with higher prices or less food available to buy.
    1
  2142. Get ready to pay higher prices to compensate for those raised salaries.
    1
  2143. What kind of disabilities?
    1
  2144.  @piku5637  Because of pridefulness?
    1
  2145.  @EdiChiArt  <can we not have "war time" laws made to mandate developers to build regardless of the bottom line.> As in force them against their will to work for free? Basically you're advocating forced labor.
    1
  2146. Not for as long as the carbon and fuel tax remain.
    1
  2147. I guess that's the reason why Canadians say they can't afford to have kids and need immigrants.
    1
  2148. Because thanks to rent control and tenants' rights, a home sitting empty is more cost-effective than renting to a bad tenant that cannot be legally evicted in a timely manner.
    1
  2149. That's if you don't Canada being another Greece or Argentina in a generation or two.
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  2150. Apparently, it is.
    1
  2151. LOL. No. The last thing Canada needs is anything government-owned given its track record for mismanagement and corruption.
    1
  2152.  @firefox39693  LOL. How does nationalization democratize anything?
    1
  2153. Poverty is not the cause but the result and consequence of bad luck and bad personal decisions.
    1
  2154. At the expense of the private sector, both bosses and workers alike.
    1
  2155.  @minimaladjacent  So do deadbeats and criminals.
    1
  2156.  @piku5637  As in you.
    1
  2157. To offset the record expenses they had to bear.
    1
  2158.  @Cballin  <I Make plenty, difference is i care about all of us getting ahead, not just myself because im not self serving. > But you're damn sure naive. Not all of us will get ahead regardless and attempting to do so will just hold everyone back becoming the self-serving person you claim you're not.
    1
  2159. Why do you live in a condo? Condos were never known for being cheap.
    1
  2160.  @hugsandcurses  <support programs.> You mean vote-buying and dependency-perpetuating programs to employ bureaucrats and pencil-pushers.
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  2161.  @001sander2  Grocers exploited nothing. Ax the carbon and fuel tax.
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  2162. The same government intervention being the reason why they're paying higher prices while having less to choose from in the first place.
    1
  2163. And owners outnumber renters 2 to 1 in Canada.
    1
  2164.  @davidnabess8494  It's just that Canada has plenty of trade restrictions within than it does with a hostile foreign country.
    1
  2165.  @vmitchinson  No it shouldn't.
    1
  2166. He who feeds you owns you. (c) Thomas Sankara.
    1
  2167.  @mirabella2154  Because a dog/cat won't stand up to you or call you out on your BS like humans.
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  2168. That's just not going to happen as most people cannot farm and commercial farming is what keeps the big cities fed.
    1
  2169. Thanks to the high entry barrier the government set which forced a lot of mom-and-pop property owners out of the market.
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  2170. And Quebec is the 6th least productive jurisdiction in North America.
    1
  2171. So are instant gratification and inability to live within means.
    1
  2172. Thanks to carbon and fuel taxes.
    1
  2173. Yet you have the highest rents and eviction rate in the country.
    1
  2174. Because most Canadians are spoiled, lazy and proud.
    1
  2175.  @emac5738  Their suppliers, producers and trucker due to higher taxes and regulations imposed on them.
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  2176. Which only means time for taxpayers to ante up even more.
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  2177.  @cedriclasry9151  LOL. <Effectively reducing the value of housing on the market making it more affordable for people to own their first home or condo> And yet so far, all rent control has done was make it cheaper for corporate investors to buy up as many properties as their incomes allow with the only affordable housing around being those in serious need of renovations or demolition. <The people who will suffer are those who have been profiting off the backs of other peoples labour for decades. I don't pity them in the slightest>> Yet they're the ones with the last laugh as renters struggle to find any housing at all let alone that is affordable and in decent condition.
    1
  2178. @evan truiyen Or Spain.
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  2179. <Trudeau knows nothing about economics > Neither do most Canadians, especially those who voted for him. <thee is no money left for travel, entertainment, leisure, splurging on merchandise. > That just might be a good though, though as too many Canadians live beyond their means and then have the nerve to complain about being in debt and having money problems.
    1
  2180. Or better yet, live within your means.
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  2181. <especially Edmonton where the rent is much chipper than any other big city.> Not named Montreal.
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  2182. That does not benefit new renters an will encourage more renovictions.
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  2183. You know that it was government intervention that jacked up prices, right? And what has rent control done except reduce supply?
    1
  2184. Do the same for property taxes, insurance premiums and mortgages.
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  2185. Complacency and ignorance.
    1
  2186.  @lynnca1972  Are they even legally allowed to put away social assistance money for anything?
    1
  2187.  @haileybaby7615  But they definitely chose to stay there.
    1
  2188. <free, voluntary vaccine. > While being threatened with job termination, denial of EI, denial of entry into establishments, etc. Are you sure it was voluntary?
    1
  2189. No. Cut the taxes and shrink the government.
    1
  2190. But at the moment is Canada's Chicago with more prestige.
    1
  2191. Not just tax hikes but also more debt.
    1
  2192. <We have the ability to make life easier> You already did that with welfare. What has that accomplished thus far besides make the North helpless and dependent with no sense of purpose in life?
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  2193. Nobody who have made more than $49 000 in the past calendar year will qualify.
    1
  2194. And watch it go bankrupt as it won't generate enough revenue to pay for the unionized workers' inflated salaries and benefits.
    1
  2195. The last thing Canada needs is a state monopoly.
    1
  2196. Ford is the least your problems.
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  2197. Tit for tat.
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  2198. And entitlement.
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  2199. Because Chretien pulled the plug on social housing as soon as he got got into office. And affordable just means taxpayer-subsidized and a money pit.
    1
  2200. But according to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian makes $49 300/year. There a plenty of Canadians who make well over that.
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  2201.  @kassieh5794  In Canada's case, that would be secular humanism/Atheism hurting the fabric.
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  2202. LMAO
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  2203. Administrators and bureaucrats.
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  2204. Actually they do. 68% of Canadians are property-owners.
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  2205. Canada and Democratic-ruled states = welfare states.
    1
  2206. All part of making itself not like the US.
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  2207. And people living beyond their means trying to live the lifestyle their wages cannot support.
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  2208. Affordable = taxpayer-funded and/or subsidized.
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  2209. Inequality is natural. Not everyone can earn the same.
    1
  2210. AirBnB is the result of government meddling that made long-term rentals no longer viable.
    1
  2211. Price control does not work.
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  2212.  @janitor1165  That has already been done resulting in barely any new housing built.
    1
  2213. Really? If so, then how did Saudi Arabia manage to defy the US choosing to do business with Russia and China?
    1
  2214. Just like apathy and envy consume all behavior at the bottom.
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  2215.  @Canada_Dominium  Loser.
    1
  2216. Work-life balance.
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  2217. No. Better solution: why don't you consider living somewhere other than the big city?
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  2218.  @EnnuinerDog  The actual cause of this housing unaffordability is government meddling in which mass immigration-induced high demand is part of.
    1
  2219. They have personal finance issues.
    1
  2220. But few Canadians make minimum wage and the COL is higher nearly across the board.
    1
  2221. It's a money-grab by the government.
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  2222. Because Ford is a CINO (Conservative in name only)?
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  2223. Only as long as the prices are above production and distribution costs.
    1
  2224. Elected by entitled and envious citizens.
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  2225.  @marklar2707  Ontario. HOLD UP! Isn't it a have-not province as well?
    1
  2226. Charging what the market will bear =/= greed. And tenants are every bit as greedy thinking they have the right to live in the most expensive locale on a burger-flipper's salary.
    1
  2227. Like New York, Manhattan specifically?
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  2228. Investors are why any new housing is built at all.
    1
  2229. And leaving nations bankrupt in the process.
    1
  2230. Canada is not the Netherlands as it doesn't have anywhere near the same climate.
    1
  2231.  Rob M  Exactly.
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  2232. <We don’t need more expensive condos that are snatched up by wealthy investors, REITS, Airbnb entrepreneurs, etc.> But they're being built, because that's what current city zoning laws allow and condos are one of the handful of housing with a decent ROI.
    1
  2233. <never enough of anything,> Except excuses as to why socialism/communism didn't work. <especially your money.> Tax the rich = tax anyone who have something going for them in life.
    1
  2234. Hardly. Many Canadians have better than average living accommodations. Not everyone lives in city housing.
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  2235.  @rhumandlove393  Enabled by consumers demanding goods to be sold at bargin prices.
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  2236. Because it costs more to transport along with build and maintain infrastructure in Canada due to being oversized and sparsely populated. Never mind that Canada has domestic trade restrictions the federal government chooses to do nothing about.
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  2237.  @Valkyri3Z  I thought governments were responsible for infrastructure. And private companies are not responsible for the trade barriers provincial governments impose on each other.
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  2238. They also have to bear higher costs. <A lot of the smaller stores closed down during Covid> By government mandate as they were deemed "non-essential."
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  2239. No housing available and higher prices for whatever is.
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  2240. Only to be the first to cry racism and xenophobia.
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  2241. First provincial governments have to cut the subsidies for local tuition and make local students pay real tuition prices.
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  2242. What savings account? A lot of Canadians don't have any savings to begin with.
    1
  2243. Nor in Quebec.
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  2244. Especially in an inferior league.
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  2245.  @gilliantohver3225  The poster is from the middle class.
    1
  2246. They as in the government.
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  2247. <They don't prefer the poor or the desperate,> And for good reason. They wouldn't be able to handle the prices.
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  2248.  @yiranimal  Thanks to government interference that made them the only entities that can afford to buy.
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  2249.  @GNRForever-vq5hp  Only to pay Australia and Europe-level rent and taxes.
    1
  2250. But the average New Yorker makes almost 2x what the average Torontonian makes. Plus there are more opportunities to make money in New York.
    1
  2251. Exactly.
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  2252. But a lot of co-ops are subsidized. Co-ops have landlords. At least mine does.
    1
  2253. How about no? Those 50-64 should have saved and lived within their means while they were 25-49.
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  2254. It's democratic socialism or social democracy where the people get to vote for their own subjugation and repression.
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  2255. Actually, they're not.
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  2256.  @grantjohnston7148  <Don't think what you're saying makes much sense. > Only to a deluded and ignorant Liberal/NDP-voter it doesn't.
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  2257. The only products I care to buy from Apple are the iPod and Beats By Dr. Dre headphone.
    1
  2258. Subsequent shortages.
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  2259. I have Videotron.
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  2260. Mass immigration was Pierre Trudeau's idea to drown out the Quebec separatist vote.
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  2261. You mean when Pauline Marois boasted about still being able to use Canadian currency and getting Canadian protection after independence only for Stephen Harper to check her.
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  2262.  @rossvaneldik3562  Pretty much. And apparently Susan B doesn't know much about basic science aside from whatever the government and Big Pharma told her.
    1
  2263.  @benjaminhenderson5025  With the government. And by the way, most politicians and civil servants are property-owners themselves along with vast majority of ordinary folks who vote for them.
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  2264. So are tenants.
    1
  2265. Don't forget higher taxes and a bloated public sector.
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  2266. And then there's the government itself with its bloated bureaucracy and the high taxes necessary to support it.
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  2267. Yes. And they're from the foreign buyers ban.
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  2268. That just the price to pay for being the place people want to live in and are willing/able to pay the higher prices.
    1
  2269. <Freeze food prices and make Grocery Stores pay for it in their taxes.> And then consumers pay for it in the form of higher prices and less food available to buy. Venezuela already tried what you advocate.
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  2270.  @j.w.2391  No. Because the Crown itself is greedy.
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  2271.  @tinalevesque5772  Yet no one paid such a rate.
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  2272.  @roblong9728  Fascism is socialism's offspring.
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  2273.  @saidibrahim5931  No. Zoning restrictions in favor of SFH's.
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  2274. QC already has high taxes. Part of the problem is that Quebec for decades has been a chronic underperformer economically hence a have-not province and is one of the least productive provinces in Canada.
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  2275. Including the greed of ordinary people who live beyond their means and think they have the right to live in a place they don't own and/or can't afford.
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  2276.  @BobBob-b5d  They did not. Throwing money at the problem =/= getting people out of poverty.
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  2277.  @MsMarmima  Because they fear getting injured/killed on the job.
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  2278. LOL. Since when? Canada's "free" healthcare model is among the worst of the developed world.
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  2279. The consequences of rent control bearing fruit.
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  2280. Politicians are more than capable of acting on their own accord. Canada's problem is government meddling in the economy.
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  2281. <to repress the substantial ethnic russian population> That Russia put sent there to create havoc so Ukraine could never have any peace post-independence if not justify a Russian invasion.
    1
  2282. And subsequent shortage.
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  2283.  @quinnm.3127  Poverty is a consequence, not a cause.
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  2284.  @cedriclasry9151  That's what Montreal landlords do.
    1
  2285.  @danwelterweight4137  Carbon tax has plenty to do with the government.
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  2286.  @msmichelle2196  Thank to the government shutting down all the "non-essential" businesses putting people out of work while allowing the "essential" businesses to carry on business as usual.
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  2287. One-time. Just like the last one.
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  2288. The current housing market is anything but free-market.
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  2289.  @001sander2  Thanks to government meddling that made property so expensive that only the richest of the rich can afford to build and own.
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  2290. Actually a bloated bureaucratic nightmare, but yeah! Still a nightmare.
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  2291. <They work in private industry with poor to no benefits and pensions.> Most likely small business just barely breaking even.
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  2292. Define real Canadian.
    1
  2293. Thanks to landlords not being legally allowed to set the rents at a rate sufficient enough to cover it.
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  2294. But NYC has the industry and opportunities to justify its high rent.
    1
  2295. Exactly.
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  2296. Rent control benefited no one except existing renters.
    1
  2297. That's because Australia is an island in the middle of nowhere.
    1
  2298. Like Venezuela did years ago?
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  2299. Mostly in the retail and service sectors where the businesses are just barely breaking even.
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  2300.  @SMOOVKILL1  The poster is right. What has compassion done except enable and exacerbate the problem as the people in need got comfortable with staying such?
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  2301. They already do and then some. 70% at least.
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  2302. High building costs.
    1
  2303. <and rental owners raised prices> Because the city raised the property taxes and the costs of maintenance have gone up.
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  2304. You have only Jimmy Carter to thank.
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  2305. Because the government you voted for imposed a carbon tax and mandated "non-essential" shops out of business.
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  2306. That Canadian citizens benefit from in the form of lower overall retail prices.
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  2307. Montreal did it in the Summer.
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  2308. <Case in point: a US telecom company tried to make a foray into Canada a few years ago (I don't recall which one) but got shut out because of the Big Three incumbents. > Verizon.
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  2309.  @momtur4875  In response to liberals mismanaging a lot of said programs rendering them insolvent and bloated.
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  2310. Maybe, but there's more money to go around in Toronto than any smaller city.
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  2311. Well, homeowners make up the majority in Canada.
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  2312. Not really. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec excluding Montreal are not suffering.
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  2313. Government greed.
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  2314. Or like the 2021 failed bid at a majority government last election.
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  2315. Not in America.
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  2316.  @o67_ant  Thanks to the Anglo-majority on-island suburbs fighting for and winning their independence from the central city.
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  2317. Not really. This is more of a Western problem than anything else.
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  2318. With much of said Anglosphere led by left-wing governments.
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  2319. Quebec is the 6th least productive jurisdiction in North America.
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  2320. Loblaws.
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  2321.  @notmuchtoit705  No. Government interference constrained supply.
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  2322.  @MrColdwilliam  Which benefits the government in the form of record tax revenue to waste.
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  2323.  @jeanbolduc5818  And another country that destroyed by socialism.
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  2324. Along with government meddling.
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  2325.  @agrimvashisht1466  It makes sense in Singapore.
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  2326.  @sebnewlook  Nah. It just means more (future) votes for the LPC.
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  2327.  @sharinglungs3226  <In this country we have a problem with creating private sector jobs> You have only bureaucracy and high taxes to thank for that.
    1
  2328. That's because they have the population to support such along with smaller land masses so that less resources are needed to establish and maintain connection.
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  2329. <So large and so integral to modern life in this country that Canada - its people> Namely those who live in the city.
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  2330. Profits or really record-breaking revenues partly due to provincial governments mandating the competition out of business?
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  2331. And then watch same said big cities stagnate and go bankrupt.
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  2332. 1:38 Politics.
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  2333.  @RebeccaJones-q5z  In a job position most would move on from after year 3.
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  2334.  @piku5637  Not as terrible as the lumpen-proletariat.
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  2335. So what's stopping you?
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  2336. Capital punishment in Singapore also applies to drug-addicts.
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  2337. Convert it into USD and Canada's wages are just average.
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  2338. Imposed by the greediest entity of them all. The government.
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  2339.  @gowine504  LOL. No they don't. Especially mom-and-pop landlords.
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  2340. Because Canada is not a dictatorship and it has this thing called freedom of association/assembly?
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  2341. There is such thing as inflation. It's courtesy of government delusion.
    1
  2342. Thanks to people from Toronto moving in.
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  2343.  @therearenoshortcuts9868  NWT and Yukon don't even need people from Toronto moving in to jack up the living costs. They have high living costs due to being remote and requiring virtually everything to be imported hence the high transport costs.
    1
  2344. Like America did with its Native Americans?
    1
  2345.  @tntcanada420  Yet Liberal/NDP-run BC has the highest rent and homelessness rate in the country.
    1
  2346.  @Ash_Wen-li  Especially in English Canada. Quebec has plenty of mid-density housing to go around, even in the most car-centric sprawling suburbs.
    1
  2347. Who's everyone?
    1
  2348.  @tc6106  68% Canadians are property-owners.
    1
  2349.  @ididnotdoit1188  Yes it is true due to rental board backlog and rent freezes.
    1
  2350.  @TheSilverGate  <letting capitalists run the country, > What capitalists? The current ruling Liberal Party is uber-Marxist.
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  2351. How is making them reduce the profits going to solve anything expect render them less solvent?
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  2352.  @alaska3300  Failing because they ran out of other people to tax.
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  2353. Stephen Harper was right in not bailing out Canadians who get into trouble abroad.
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  2354. Only for you to pay for it in the end in the form of higher prices and/or less to buy. The last thing Canada needs is another tax.
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  2355.  @greeneggsandhammond  Thanks to government making housing too costly to build and own rendering multi-billion dollar investors among the only entities that can afford to.
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  2356. Over Quebec's dead body will Metro be bought out by Sobeys.
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  2357.  @wesleyewert1023  The people willing and able to pay the higher prices.
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  2358. What do you mean your wealth? You voluntarily exchanged it for their services. At that point, the money is no longer yours but theirs.
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  2359. No. This is the result of government taxing and regulating smaller landlords out of business leaving behind only corporate landlords to fill the void if not itself as the landlord.
    1
  2360. Left-wing policies enable and exacerbate problems.
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  2361.  @user-ld6wo4rv8h  Western men ----ed up big time.
    1
  2362. Except big business as the smaller competitors are priced out of the market.
    1
  2363. High taxes and punitive regulations make it costly to produce locally.
    1
  2364. A new batch of NIMBY's will come along.
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  2365.  @lenadahling  The carbon and fuel taxes are well within Trudeau's control.
    1
  2366.  @briankroger7879  And leftists in general.
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  2367. LOL. High taxes and government over-regulation are the reasons for the high costs of living.
    1
  2368.  @christinamann3640  Not really. Canada has plenty of open space. Hong Kong doesn't.
    1
  2369. <inevitable result of decades of government austerity policies> Which is an inevitable result of decades of government fiscal mismanagement and debt-financing to pay for said social programs.
    1
  2370. Courtesy of Justin's father.
    1
  2371.  @TheShanehansel  Because their countries have restricted markets and are corrupt.
    1
  2372. Nah. A lot of them don't go there, because they're not allowed to get intoxicated on-premises or have pets.
    1
  2373.  @SonoftheWest316  Pretty much.
    1
  2374.  @SonoftheWest316  <I lived among them I know for a fact it's way easier to coast through life getting high everyday and waiting for the monthly check and be free of any responsibility. > Also panhandling, theft, prostitution, trafficking, etc. once the check runs out and they wait for the next payout.
    1
  2375. Because we're just consumers, not producers.
    1
  2376. Housing never was a right.
    1
  2377. By the government.
    1
  2378.  @rousseausp  No. Just the government. They're the ones who made it too costly and burdensome to build or own anything pricing and regulating the competition out of the the market so that only the richest of the rich can enter.
    1
  2379. Like South Korea and Japan.
    1
  2380.  @johncam8420  <Like taxing grocers more, or capping prices for basic goods.> Venezuela did exactly that only to end up destroying local industry and until the oil prices collapsed had to rely on imports.
    1
  2381.  breakfasttelevision4261  Interestingly under Brian Mulroney, the PM Canadians love to hate.
    1
  2382. But there are far more Canadians without family doctors than Americans without healthcare insurance.
    1
  2383. Pretty much.
    1
  2384. Thanks to government interference that made affordable housing no longer worth building or maintaining and condos the only high-density housing legally allowed to be built in the city.
    1
  2385. Which just happens to be the Premier and Education Minister.
    1
  2386.  @ajt01  Actually yes they can as they're exempt from the foreign buyers' ban.
    1
  2387. But don't you dare suggest allowing private healthcare although it was made legal by the SCC in 2005 ruling that the government doesn't have the right to bar people from accessing and paying for out of their own pockets private healthcare.
    1
  2388. <the fact that there are greedy landlords out there who are willing to charge over $2,000 just for a little one-bedroom apartment> How are landlords being greedy charging $2000 when there are people willing and able to pay $2000 for just a little one-bedroom apartment?
    1
  2389. I had no problem getting mine.
    1
  2390. Agreed.
    1
  2391. But the US has more disposable income.
    1
  2392.  @houseofmendoza5442  Due to the big-city folks moving in.
    1
  2393.  @canadabear72  Government meddling enabled those corporations and super-rich.
    1
  2394. Not really. Mental illness is a weak cop-out.
    1
  2395. <These punitive taxes need to come in both extremely strict and very painful for all executives and shareholders!> Only for you to pay it in the end in the form of higher food prices and/or empty shelves.
    1
  2396.  @user_gov  <maybe that the government wouldn't let giant companies take advantage of people just looking for a better life?> Only to take advantage of them themselves if only to dilute the opposition's voter base.
    1
  2397. Thanks to government making them costly and unviable.
    1
  2398.  @TheTechnoPilot  WRONG! Big government is what's harming our society as a whole. And public-sector wages are made on the backs of both private-sector workers and bosses alike.
    1
  2399. <Embarrassing how we allow our oligarchs to do this to us and our own children.> You voted for it.
    1
  2400. T-Mobile? I though it was Verizon.
    1
  2401. You mean revenues. Profits are when revenues exceed expenses and there's money left over.
    1
  2402.  @UncleBuZ  You mean womansplain, because that was all you were doing. LMAO
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  2403. Not really. Canada is just too oversized and underpopulated to warrant lower prices.
    1
  2404. Only to those who don't know any better. Besides, $234 is nothing. as I got $600 from the province.
    1
  2405. The costs to even get a permit to build anything is not getting any lower.
    1
  2406.  @on2thenextthing  Very much.
    1
  2407.  @joel16961  Which government? Doug Ford has no obligation to maintain a pet project started by Kathleen Wynne.
    1
  2408. Saskatchewan = no man's land. Quebec = interesting how Canada prides itself in being bilingual yet only 9% of English Canadians can speak French.
    1
  2409. Thanks to lax immigration laws.
    1
  2410.  @jmack619  Pretty much
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  2411. <The government will do nothing to meaningfully act to stabilize prices because they are controlled by oligarchs.> No. The government will do nothing, because they benefit from it in the form of carbon, fuel, etc. revenue.
    1
  2412. And in the process bar new renters from renting and be left to deal with housing shortages no one will want to build anything.
    1
  2413. Regulations exist already which is why AirBnB and renovictions are things.
    1
  2414. LOL. You know most nurses are employed the government, right? Billionaires have nothing to do with this.
    1
  2415. But the government is the worst of them all.
    1
  2416. Except for college only because it is tax-payer sibsidized.
    1
  2417. So how does socialism get new workers?
    1
  2418. Because we hate conservatives more than we really love liberals.
    1
  2419.  @flowergirlabc123  Which can be traced back to the Carbon Tax and the federal government's fertilizer restrictions on production and supply of food.
    1
  2420. You misspelled socialists.
    1
  2421.  @mysoccerdelight1  Koch brothers don't live here. And you're free to work for someone else if you don't like Galen Weston.
    1
  2422.  @mysoccerdelight1  LOL. No I don't.
    1
  2423. $85 000 CAD = $60 350 USD. Are you sure about that?
    1
  2424. Evidence as in UBI promotes dependency?
    1
  2425. And then you have the nerve to complain about foreigners taking those jobs away.
    1
  2426.  @TheRandCrews  Until cars and planes became more accessible making passenger rail irrelevant. Never mind that the government lost a lot of money owning it and it was eventually privatized and repurposed for freight.
    1
  2427.  Jacob Burton  Just Justin's father did with the NEP.
    1
  2428. Exactly.
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  2429. That's actually a good thing. And you'd be changing your tune if you had wealth or something to leave behind for your kids. Bernie Sanders did it as soon as he became a millionaire.
    1
  2430. But they already put foreign migrants before their own citizens.
    1
  2431.  @lukiannn  Sweden already sold its people out to mass immigration.
    1
  2432. Canada is too oversized and underpopulated for that.
    1
  2433. Smaller population, higher taxes, etc.
    1
  2434. Tax the rich ironically benefits the rich. <capitalistic greed and neoliberal selfishness.> Into what? Socialist greed and neo-Bolshevik delusion?
    1
  2435. No. Many of the stores there closed down due to crime. And all 3 of the cities you mentioned are run by far-left defund-the-police types for Mayors.
    1
  2436.  @EA-ck4so  And those who do are dependent on government for their survival.
    1
  2437. That and shrink the size of government.
    1
  2438. Actually if it wasn't for the rich, there'd be no middle class. Plus, until recently, the middle class didn't exist.
    1
  2439. Making Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin proud.
    1
  2440. The last time I heard about her, she was in self-isolation as she tested positive.
    1
  2441.  @ShadeRaven222  Fascism is a leftist idea.
    1
  2442. And the public sector.
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  2443.  @Authorofownhealth  God gave humanity free will. This is what humanity chose to do with that free will. Serve itself and these are the results.
    1
  2444. The worst place in Canada to be working poor.
    1
  2445. The minimum wage is not $15 yet anywhere. At best it's $12.
    1
  2446. Not really. And the government is the reason for the higher prices.
    1
  2447. Including atheist ones as found in China and North Korea.
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  2448. Because few people work for such and Canadians have less disposable income.
    1
  2449. @DB Muir And how would you know that?
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  2450.  @ahealthkit2745  No. They failed themselves far more than every system in the world did.
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  2451. Not before there's a limit on property tax, insurance premium, maintenance and repair, etc. increases.
    1
  2452. <Our city is too busy putting down sponge parks instead of planting trees to decrease flooding. Also, removing roads for bike lanes, well we can't all bike to work in -20C> That's the price to pay for voting for Valerie Plante out of spite for Denis Corderre.
    1
  2453.  @jacktoulouse5390  BS! They have little problem affording pets and high lifestyles.
    1
  2454.  @ericfortin5612  Because they passed that up for career and lifestyle voting accordingly.
    1
  2455. 2 of those "competitors are owned by Loblaws.
    1
  2456. But animal-rights activists would start raising hell.
    1
  2457. <short term rental is too playing a massive role> Short-term rentals are a consequence of rent control.
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  2458. <No real businesses like motels are willing to let anyone stay without paying. > Because they have bills to pay. Plus, they're not a charity. <The world is so damn greedy,> And so are you. When was the last time you let a homeless person stay at your place?
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  2459. They did through jacked-up property taxes, utility costs since they own the companies, etc.
    1
  2460. <This is a precursor to a revolution.> Which have consistently resulted in making everyone except the revolutionaries poor?
    1
  2461. The private sector isn't slowing down anything. The government is. <Corporate GREED is behind the DEVASTATING Housing Crisis> No. Try government greed.
    1
  2462. No. Just governments and banks.
    1
  2463. Namely because Canadians have no other flight options.
    1
  2464. Not nearly as much as socialism.
    1
  2465. Thanks to high taxes and over-regulation.
    1
  2466.  @user1345-x6k  Canada got content with living off of the US and China.
    1
  2467. Actually, yes it is. Quebec is the original Canada.
    1
  2468. They're pro-refugee until the refugees show up at their doorsteps. Canada is the same. It wasn't that long ago that Justin Trudeau claimed them to be welcome to Canada.
    1
  2469. And why should they?
    1
  2470.  @josephd.5524  While those with "actual jobs" spend frivolously and then have the nerve to complain about not being able to pay the rent.
    1
  2471.  @esparda07  Thanks to government meddling.
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  2472. No. Try mismanaged. The underfunding is just a side-effect.
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  2473.  @tslfrontman  Yes you can as it's not the government's job to look out for your future.
    1
  2474. Home and dignity are earned, not owed.
    1
  2475. They'll pay fair wages when Canadian consumers start paying fair prices.
    1
  2476. Yet there was no crisis under Harper nor were there 500 000 immigrants coming in at once per pear.
    1
  2477. <Canadian businesses dont invest in Canada, they just sell out.> Because the government discourages investment high taxes and bureaucracy.
    1
  2478. Well, building and real estate are not cheap.
    1
  2479.  @Martin721237  Transportation costs are the reason for the food prices they pay out there, especially to a place that's inaccessible by anything other than cargo plane.
    1
  2480.  @coopsnz1  How are they price-gouging when are paying a fortune just to get the merchandise into the country?
    1
  2481.  @vmitchinson  And you're just a typical NDP-voter.
    1
  2482. Being a landlord is career. And there's a reason the federal government moved on from social housing in the 90's. It was too much of a liability.
    1
  2483.  @Tori_TLCR  <Feds moved on purely for ideological reasons. > It was the same party Justin Trudeau is the current head of.
    1
  2484. But the average NYCer earns almost double what the average Torontonian earns.
    1
  2485. And also lower the wages to what they once were when the food was "affordable."
    1
  2486. And further enable short-term rentals, renovictions and corporate buyouts as mom-and-pop owners go bankrupt and be forced to sell.
    1
  2487.  @mallasaugat  And government restrictions.
    1
  2488. CBC is a state-owned news agency.
    1
  2489. No. It's because Canada is oversized and underpopulated.
    1
  2490.  @macleanclassics  And people either dependent on or employed by the government.
    1
  2491. Because we are CROOKED ourselves.
    1
  2492. NAnd where is the money going to come from to pay for it?
    1
  2493. Housing is not a right just like living in the most expensive part of town on a burger-flipper's salary isn't.
    1
  2494. They think they have the right to what someone else worked for, just because they want it and they're poor.
    1
  2495. Like Hong Kong?
    1
  2496. How are zoning restrictions, rent caps, bureaucracy, etc. capitalist?
    1
  2497. The Carbon Tax.
    1
  2498. Government over-regulation distorts the market.
    1
  2499. They don't want to embarrass themselves in front of the world.
    1
  2500.  @Luna12Z  Especially within city limits.
    1
  2501. Not really. The government enabled them through lockdowns on their "non-essential" competition.
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  2502.  @Hastur876  Simple. Move to Quebec. And by the way, IGA is an American chain.
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  2503.  @davidjym  Looks like the Trudeau diet is working as intended.
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  2504.  @nancyneyedly4587  North Korea doesn't have this problem.
    1
  2505. They're NIMBY's themselves.
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  2506.  @Sam19509  And replaced him with an even bigger bum.
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  2507. Canada was never the best country in the world even at the best of times.
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  2508.  @DustyLamp  Partly because they chose not to have kids and pissed away most of their working years on partying and BSing as opposed to saving and investing.
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  2509. Yet Venezuelans much rather be homeless in Colombia and Brazil. Chavez and Maduro destroyed Venezuela.
    1
  2510. With no real economy or productivity to support it. But hey you can always tax "the rich."
    1
  2511. <The schools kinda need them for that reason alone cause the locals just cannot make these schools economically feasible. > Especially if the provinces end the subsidies.
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  2512. Especially state monopolies.
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  2513.  @coolioso808  Socialism is even worse for humans.
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  2514. <Not to mention the incompetent government refuses to increase minimum wage> The minimum wage was increased last month.
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  2515. This is about logistics, not wealth "inequality."
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  2516. It's a one-off. That GST credit we just received this past Friday is the equivalent of 2 payments.
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  2517.  @piku5637  And also people who vote for usually leftist governments to steal from their neighbors on their behalf.
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  2518. The same Denmark that boasted the world's highest household debt before Canada overtook it recently?
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  2519.  @JollyOldCanuck  But it's not legally allowed to move its HQ out of Quebec.
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  2520.  @kd9896  After Ottawa bankrupted it. Alberta is perfectly justified in not trusting Liberals and NDPers.
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  2521. What companies did Canada bail out?
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  2522. People who have made less than $39K in the past year will qualify.
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  2523.  @asad5067  They can save their money and start their own businesses. But apparently, it's much easier to just take orders and collect a paycheck.
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  2524. With that place to live she can't afford being Downtown Toronto?
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  2525. Because they're the reason any new housing is built at all.
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  2526.  @andr0oS  <But you voluntarily chose for somebody else's profit.> <to build something which you have no stake in > Should have started your own business.
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  2527. Those prices are "horrible," only because it costs a lot of money and time to transport the food in a place that is no man's land.
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  2528. Because Russia was too busy enslaving its own citizens under the guise of worker's paradise.
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  2529. They're corrupt themselves. If anything, this is a power struggle.
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  2530.  @godogs89  With help from Canada Post.
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  2531. Thanks to government-created record inflation.
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  2532. But let liberals there turn the healthcare system into the murderous industry that exists in Venezuela.
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  2533. At the expense of the locals you just priced out. LOL
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  2534. <Which was already immensely diverse and except for Quebec, unified and economically responsible.> Say what you will, but Quebec's language laws and the high birthrate during the Roman Catholic years were saving graces.
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  2535. Thanks to Food Basics, Super C and Jean Coutu (Pharmaprix's main pharmacy chain rival in Quebec).
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  2536. <Youre stuck renting forever without ever being able to stack money aside for the future.> Only if you insist on living in the big city. <Whats is going on is monopolisation of assets by hedge fund groups working together to artifiticially inflate prices to put everyone whos not in their little club to not own anything ever again.> The unintended consequences of rent control and tenants' rights.
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  2537. It affects renters on the backend. in the form of higher rent.
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  2538.  @letfreedomreignhonk324  Thanks to government over-regulation.
    1
  2539. <re afraid to rent out their houses, > Due to lopsided rental laws in favor of tenants to the point that it's much cheaper to leave the unit empty than rent to a problem tenant who cannot be legally evicted in a timely manner.
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  2540. <The only thing worse than government monopolies are private monopolies> Not really.
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  2541. So has Quebec.
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  2542. Canada doesn't have France's climate or geography.
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  2543.  @Mike-or3ry  Let them fend for themselves.
    1
  2544. And price out the locals in the process. LOL
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  2545.  @person-yu8cu  And their own coffers through property taxes.
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  2546. Greedy renters thinking they have the right to live in a place they can't afford and don't own. Never mind that they live beyond their means and then have the nerve to complain about money problems.
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  2547.  @lenadahling  The middle class is vanishing due to the tax-the-rich policies and inflation inherent with left-wing governments. The rich are not the ones impoverishing you.
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  2548. Only for them to become the new oligarchs. Look how that worked out in Venezuela with Chavez and Maduro. Both of them were from the working class.
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  2549. US's housing prices are nowhere nearly as bad as Canada's.
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  2550. There's only so much land to go around for building especially in the city.
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  2551.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  That's just Downtown and some other trendy part of the city. There are a lot of places that cost less than that.
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  2552. Housing prices are even higher there due to transport costs.
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  2553. You have only Pierre Trudeau to thank for that.
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  2554. Like what? Tax and regulate more? They already did that.
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  2555. The only greed going on here is that of the government.
    1
  2556. They might have had a falling out with them.
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  2557. Air BnB is not the problem. Government meddling made Air BnB a thing.
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  2558. How about shrinking the size of government?
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  2559. But government meddling made then costly and unviable.
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  2560. Canada does not need shantytowns.
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  2561.  @Gabrielle499  Get your own house.
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  2562. LOL. China is going through a crisis.
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  2563.  @fayhodkinson1076  At certain temp agencies, yes. My temp agency used to hire homeless people all the time.
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  2564. Rent control doesn't make housing affordable but scarce and inevitably unaffordable.
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  2565. Because property taxes, real estate values and maintenance costs are expensive.
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  2566. But it's the government that has done plenty to restrict supply and artificially inflate demand.
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  2567. <They will just be pocketing higher profits> And rightfully so after having to pay a fortune just to get a permit and real estate to build on.
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  2568.  @couciao  He was good and Canada was much better off.
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  2569. Lower the property taxes and mortgages.
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  2570.  @saltymonkey8874  <People aren't having kids here because they can't afford them. > Yet they can afford their lifestyle choices. Isn't Canada #1 among developed countries in household debt?
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  2571. And create more Jane & Finch's.
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  2572. Let nature run its course.
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  2573.  @tiannaboo222  Who's nobody? Plenty of people in Toronto own a car. Even the supposedly poor.
    1
  2574. Unless the province decides to cut subsidies.
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  2575. Like people in the old USSR used to?
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  2576. I think you're confusing Canada with the US. The top brass of Canada's universities are anything but millionaires and are not paid such.
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  2577. But they do, because they also have heating costs.
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  2578. The Spanish world have low standards. Brazil rejected said doctors due to their credentials not being up to par. <Why can a small country like Cuba with a poulation of 11million turn out three times as many doctors as Canada?> They're cash cows for the Cuban government as they only get to keep 10% of their real earnings.
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  2579. Canada.
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  2580. We chased out Verizon.
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  2581.  @dorinpopa6962  Government = the ultimate 1%.
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  2582. You spelt Democratic wrong.
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  2583. But the US has a higher average income than Canada.
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  2584. Plus Canada is too underpopulated and bureaucratic to support more competition.
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  2585. Hundreds of years ago, they were dying at 35-40.
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  2586. Rent control is under the province's authority. Take it up with Premier Ford.
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  2587.  @Amir-jn5mo  Carbon Tax? It does affect production, supply and distribution of food.
    1
  2588. Exactly.
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  2589. No. This is the unintended consequences of rent control and tenants' rights you advocated.
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  2590. The rich as in those who make $40K and up.
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  2591. And then what happens when there's no more rich to tax?
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  2592.  @YTStopCensoringFreedomOfspeech  AKA socialism coming to fruition.
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  2593. But Quebec has the lowest university enrollment rate in Canada.
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  2594. Arizona tried that in the past only to get threatened with a lawsuit by the Obama Administration.
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  2595. <When you factor in the poor wages in the US, Canada is better off. > No. The average American even with the supposedly poor wages has more disposable income than the average Canadian. <Doug Fraud eliminated rent controls and just invited the robbery.> While rent control = robbery of landlords and anyone who was looking for housing. Rent control among other forms of government meddling was the reason why AirBnB came to existence.
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  2596. The US is far from overpriced. The South and Midwest exist.
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  2597. The only real "greed-flation" going on here is the government's Carbon Tax.
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  2598. Social programs = Liberal/NDP vote-buying programs.
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  2599. <How can you expect to get an honest answer from the chief lobbiest of the industry profiteering during a food crisis? > A food crisis caused by government meddling in the supply chains.
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  2600. Exactly.
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  2601. And then you wonder why Canada has a household debt problem. People love to live beyond their means. Just because you have the right to spend your hard-earned money however you want doesn't mean it's a wise thing to do especially when hard times come and you're going to need that money to help you get through.
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  2602.  @TheTechnoPilot  Live within your means.
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  2603.  @bmw803  Those kids need to take that up with their own governments.
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  2604. And the solution is what? Socialism which you'll be lucky to have any food at all to buy at any price.
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  2605.  @MrBuddy-r8w  Along with taxing and regulating the competition out of the market.
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  2606. <by hiring kids who are like in high school for part-time positions that pay less than the general minimum wage in Ontario. I > Or immigrants. Mass immigration is a thing for a reason.
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  2607. While Canada benefits from said thievery.
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  2608. Because it's on an island where you would also have to build a bridge. In other words, too costly and too much of a waste as the roads and railways would crumble due to maintenance costs, permafrost and the general lack of use. And Iqaluit is isolated.
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  2609. Because still the ever fearful and ignorant public continue to support them.
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  2610. No. It's government overspending and high taxes.
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  2611. Isn't Russia a member of the Security Council?
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  2612. Superseded by pure envy in the comments section.
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  2613.  @OK-hl6qd  Abut as much as left-wingers love helping the middle class.
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  2614. Um. No. Price control = shortages and high costs.
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  2615.  @MrMountainchris  Yes. Price control is part why there is a housing crisis. The only greed going on is that of the government.
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  2616.  @melaniecarney551  But at least the poster will actually get healthcare in a timely manner. There's a reason more Canadians go to the US than Americans go to Canada for healthcare.
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  2617. Canada as a whole was much better off. Yeah I remember!
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  2618.  @buzzfeedright4154  Actually, only 38 000 people live in Nunavut. But yeah!
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  2619.  @agodelianshock9422  Exactly.
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  2620.  @joshbobst1629  <but just that they want a place to live they can afford.> They already exist. They're called the rural area and city-housing.
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  2621. LOL.
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  2622. <The provinces haven't enforced rental control combined with an unregulated free market.> Yes they have and the market is actually over-regulated. What has they done besides set a high entry barrier allowing only the richest of the rich to participate?
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  2623. And with a rent cap, little new housing will be built or be available leaving a lot of new renters SOL.
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  2624. Not as much as governments and banks do standing to benefit from property tax and mortgage interest.
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  2625. Land values have gone up. Property taxes have gone up. Insurance premiums have gone up. The amount of people including those willing to pay the higher rent moving in have gone up.
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  2626. <The Gov. takes care of us by giving pay raises to look good, then let the corporations, their largest donners, raze prices more than the raze gave.> When the government doesn't jack up the taxes or devalue the currency first.
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  2627. Not completely. A lot of people are willing to pay the higher prices.
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  2628. Higher prices and less variety. And also many of the Canadian stores are owned by Americans.
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  2629.  @two-sense  Not the Canadians in the Lower Mainland where Vancouver is situated.
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  2630.  @yxeaviationphotog  And Quebec is not a particularly expensive place to live, high taxes notwithstanding.
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  2631.  notqp  No it isn't. And I hardly buy milk.
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  2632. Nah. Try low population + density coupled with a vast land mass, bureaucracy, etc.
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  2633. Quebec is a democracy. It's just that English-speakers only make up 7.7% of the population while French-speakers make up 80%.
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  2634. And Cuba is just off the NW peninsula.
    1
  2635. Thanks to government meddling.
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  2636.  @bozelecter  Mass immigration-induced high demand, taxes and restrictions on housing supply among other things.
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  2637. Bell MTS, Place Bell, Centre Bell, etc.
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  2638. AirBnB is the result of rent control and landlords not being legally allowed to evict bad tenants in a timely manner.
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  2639. <rent control is very important, > Only if you want to further exacerbate and perpetuate the housing crisis through lack of hosing availability.
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  2640. <we need answers to why this could happen here in Canada> Simple. You get what you pay for with "free" healthcare.
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  2641. <If the rent is too high, the landlord will not be able to find a tenant and they will be forced to lower the rent or eat the loss.> Or sell the property to those wealthy enough to bear the costs hence the corporate ownership.
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  2642.  @scottmueller5895  LOL.
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  2643. Neither are the Liberals as this has been happening under their watch.
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  2644. Would that include the greed of tenants thinking they're entitled to an apartment in the most trendiest neighborhood in the city they know they can't afford?
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  2645.  @dennisheyes4561  Because the older houses have been condemned and are no longer suitable for inhabitation.
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  2646. Exactly. And that's despite Clinton's best efforts to make it such.
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  2647. But he did balance the budget and gave Canada surpluses for years.
    1
  2648. Pretty much.
    1
  2649. Exactly.
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  2650.  @thatsenoughoutofyou  It's not the outside country's fault that Canada doesn't have the population to defend the vast land it has and depends on the US for military protection.
    1
  2651. Why don't you get your own house then?
    1
  2652.  andy D  No. Not even locals can buy property in China.
    1
  2653.  @BeHappyByBike  Just like tenants could be less entitled and expect less if they're not willing to pay more.
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  2654.  @georgezuwala7075  But pride is the ultimate vice of them all.
    1
  2655. Namely urban professional jobs.
    1
  2656. As long as demand, building and real estate costs and bureaucracy is high, affordable housing = forget about it.
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  2657. And it really doesn't help that the vast majority of immigrants just want to live in the big cities.
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  2658.  @OSUTINDIIN  Government greed and short-sightedness made this all possible.
    1
  2659. Not really. They're actually in touch as the average person in Canada is a home-owner. 66% of Canadians are.
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  2660. Um. No. You're just going to find a way to mess it up when the human condition sets in.
    1
  2661. No, we're in this mess because government restrictions on housing supply coupled with mass immigration-induced high demand.
    1
  2662. Exactly.
    1
  2663. And in turn we pay either higher prices or have less food available to buy.
    1
  2664. That would be the previous Mayor, Bill DeBlasio. Also a leftist.
    1
  2665. <The federal government could nationalize its telecommunications and make it a public utility, > Only to go into debt and money has to be taken from the rest of the economy just to keep it afloat.
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  2666.  @lookinforthelightful  And so are the poeple who voted for him.
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  2667. <Regulate prices: The government can regulate the prices of mobile plans to ensure that they are fair and affordable for consumers.> Price control doesn't work.
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  2668. Since when did socialism and mass immigration mix?
    1
  2669. Canada does not need more Regent Parks and Swansea Mewses.
    1
  2670. Which in turn costs a lot of money to establish and maintain infrastructure to cover every area with a sizeable population domestically.
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  2671. So the people can piss it all away and end up right back to being broke and hungry again by the end of the week proving why democracy is a poor way of running a country.
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  2672. Price controls do not work.
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  2673.  @brucetrappleton6984  Neither is your solution which will all but ensure Canada becomes another Venezuela.
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  2674.  @brucetrappleton6984  It was structured like that only to recover all the money lost from WW2. You may be misinformed on why it was even there in the first place.
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  2675. No. Keep the GST at 5%.
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  2676. <But any kind of Food Security Program would be considered "Communism" by the Conservative Right !> And rightfully so. Programs = shortages, mismanagement, inefficiency, inadequacy, high costs, etc.
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  2677. <sign up for BRICS with the philosophy of "Prosperity for all, not just a few"> Brazil with a wealth gap even wider than the US's? LOL. South Africa is regressing under far-left ANC rule and #1 in income inequality on Earth. China is reverting back to the Mao era with Xi in charge. India is stagnating and a lot of people want out.
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  2678.  Phenohype  Maybe people should grow their own food and build their own shelter.
    1
  2679. How much did you make 25 years ago?
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  2680.  @NadiaMagano  It is the point. Rent wasn't exactly any cheaper 25 years ago.
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  2681. And where in Canada is the minimum wage that high?
    1
  2682. On repairs if the products are repairable at all or a brand-new product.
    1
  2683. Protecting Quebec and Ontario jobs in the process.
    1
  2684.  @jon6309  And yet food is still more expensive in Canada.
    1
  2685. Canada has no culture (c) Pierre Trudeau..
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  2686.  @tony--james  <s to vote NDP...> And watch them bankrupt Ontario like they did in the early 90's under Bob Rae.
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  2687.  @tony--james  But Ford didn't turn Ontario into a have-not province like Kathleen Wynne's Liberals did or made it illegal to mis-gender someone.
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  2688.  @EnnuinerDog  <The Liberals are bad, I agree, but right-wing parties are worse> Something a typical leftist would say.
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  2689. Greed is a manifestation of pride.
    1
  2690.  @bitey-facepuppyguy2038  The wealthy account for 70% of all taxes paid. What do you mean by "fair share?"
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  2691. How can they steal what you voluntarily and happily gave them no questions asked?
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  2692. LOL.
    1
  2693. Pretty much.
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  2694. Why should they fund food banks? The problem is the government.
    1
  2695. And where's the money going to come from to pay for shipping and logistics not just employee salaries, rent and utilities?
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  2696. No it isn't. You don't have the right what someone else produced.
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  2697.  @themajesticend491  Follow your own advice. No one is owed anything.
    1
  2698. Pretty much.
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  2699. No it shouldn't. <Why cant these food be donated?> Legal reasons. Who wants to go to court because someone got sick or died from eating expired food?
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  2700. They're well within their rights to.
    1
  2701. Or tax control.
    1
  2702. They pay so much largely to cover the cost of transporting the goods to their otherwise inaccessible and remote neck of the woods in the first place.
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  2703. This crisis is largely an Anglo Canada problem.
    1
  2704. <To make a lot of them just public housing so people can afford to save up to buy a home.> Only to suffer from lack of availability and maintenance like we already do with current public housing.
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  2705. <NDP wants to eliminate GST!.> Just like Jean Chretien did. And we all know how that turned out.
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  2706. What capitalism? It's toxic socialism that restricted housing supply.
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  2707. And as of 4/1/2024, Justin Trudeau will make more than 400K a year.
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  2708. No. And not even close. If Canada had unrestrained capitalism, Verizon would have been here.
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  2709. Courtesy of the provincial governments.
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  2710.  @Ilovepineapple  But you also have factor in COL and purchasing power.
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  2711.  @Kelseyveg  <Housing is a human right.> No it isn't just like living in a trendy neighborhood you can't afford isn't.
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  2712. The majority are every bit as greedy as that minority. Household debt is a thing for a reason.
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  2713.  @Sombriage  The majority are lousy with finances.
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  2714. Quebec has the 6th lowest GDP per capita among North American states and provinces.
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  2715. There was a reason Pauline Marois asked Stephen Harper for association and not unconditional independence should Quebec win the Referendum vote which Harper rightfully told her off.
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  2716. Yet NDP-run British Columbia stands alone in homelessness and high cost of living.
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  2717. Thanks to zoning restrictions and high building costs, condos are the only high-density housing they can build with a decent ROI.
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  2718. <The only solution, proven over thousands of years, is wealth redistribution. > Proven over thousands of years not to work once the (not completely) poor become the rich to tax. <The alternative, for thousands of years, has been pitchforks and torches.> Also replacing one set of oligarchs with another.
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  2719.  @marcusfossa6695  Yet even socialism has rich and poor. Namely the government and everyone else.
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  2720. Not at all. And high rents is just a small price to pay for the convenience of living in the big city. Now, pay up or move out!
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  2721. And replace it with what? Communism where you'll get to live in a glorified outhouse?
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  2722.  @Akim_Volny  Put down the Marxist Kool-Aid, comrade!
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  2723.  @brandanB80  Like Somalia?
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  2724. <Treat people like people they aren't animals> The tax-paying victims of their thefts, assaults, harassments, etc. would like a word with you on that.
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  2725. Namely by the government.
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  2726.  @irahryphson8879  And they're not as profitable due to government meddling that made rentals too costly to build and maintain.
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  2727. They own the means, because they put up the money to acquire them.
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  2728.  @ADavid42  <In the majority of cases, they inherited the $, > Because their parents intended them to have that money. It's not their fault your parents didn't have the foresight or sense to do the same for you.
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  2729.  @ADavid42  While you justify envy of "the rich." How Marxist of you? And by the way, Marx was from the upper class and had nothing in common with the poor.
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  2730. Enabled by greedy consumers.
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  2731. No. Drop the Carbon Tax and the restrictions on production and supply.
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  2732. But the GTA has the most political clout.
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  2733. Are you willing to pay actual living prices to support said wage?
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  2734. Nah. It's due to to provincially imposed price (tuition) control for local students
    1
  2735. While socialism epitomizes monopoly. State monopoly, that is.
    1
  2736.  @ShawnHCorey  Yes socialism is. Interesting how socialism falls apart when it gets the democracy it claims to require to function properly.
    1
  2737. They just announced it will come in November.
    1
  2738. How about better dieting? The bad teeth are due to bad food you put in your stomach.
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  2739. So do liberals for everyone including the very people they claim to have compassion and empathy for.
    1
  2740. <How about you go after the ltb a> And the provincial government that owns it?
    1
  2741. With British Columbia being #1, run by the NDP.
    1
  2742.  @9avedon  As in they have sacrificed the very people they swore to have solidarity with for themselves (the greater good).
    1
  2743. Because the government taxed and regulated the ---- out of them.
    1
  2744. How? Nunavut is an island. And the rest of the territories are inaccessible by land due to the climate.
    1
  2745. The poor in those countries live in shantytowns and makeshift shacks on the outskirts of the capitals and resort cities.
    1
  2746.  @vangroover666  LOL. Justin never had a real job. He was a trust-fund baby.
    1
  2747. <food and housing are basic necessities,> But they're not rights.
    1
  2748.  @talktothehandreviews  So does Ontario, yet they still vote Liberal in federal elections.
    1
  2749. How exactly? The suppliers have to pay through the nose in money and time to get the goods to a rather remote and borderline inaccessible area where barely anyone live at. The high prices they charge is to recoup. Otherwise they would have never bothered with the place.
    1
  2750. Government meddling made rental housing unviable.
    1
  2751. So? American slave-owners built and provided shacks for their African slaves to live in in the 1800's.
    1
  2752.  @MrLee-gj2jz  <If a city stays unaffordable for long periods of time there will be an inevitable flight of capital and also workers, to cheaper locations> That's not how Detroit, Gary or Camden declined.
    1
  2753.  @icantwiththis  But many still wouldn't be well-off as most will piss it all away.
    1
  2754.  @RH-pn9qg  <You can easily replace ceo’s with AI> Not nearly as easily as you can replace workers. If it wasn't for the CEO's, most of the people wouldn't have a job to buy themselves a pot to pee in.
    1
  2755. Who knew that socialism wasn't sustainable with open borders and too many freeloaders while punishing the productive?
    1
  2756.  @panddmorales6607  For what?
    1
  2757.  @ryanradcliffe9756  Both of their cheques are funded by the private sector being overtaxed.
    1
  2758. <They claim many of their members used food banks to help them because they don’t make enough money.> Or they're living beyond their means.
    1
  2759.  @acaciomadeira5147  Most Southern states don't have a state minimum wage.
    1
  2760. I presume you're one of those disgruntled Democrat-voters, right?
    1
  2761. Because CEO's are convenient scapegoats. Not the very government a lot of the people voted for.
    1
  2762. No. Ban them, and greedy local landlords will pick up right where they left off.
    1
  2763.  @SmithKurosaki  The 1% = Justin Trudeau and anyone who was dumb enough to vote for him.
    1
  2764. And when those programs run out of other people's money to fund them, then what?
    1
  2765. The ruling CAQ are a lot of things but incompetent is not one of them.
    1
  2766. Inevitably resulting in too many people in need and not enough people working and paying taxes requiring either reforms or collapse as in France's current case.
    1
  2767. By and large.
    1
  2768. Condos are built because due to city zoning restrictions and NIMBY's, those are the only high-density housing developers are legally allowed to build with a decent ROI. <Foreign students are the problem as well> That's on the federal government.
    1
  2769.  @iExploder  No it didn't. And Harper didn't let 500 000 people in the country at a time.
    1
  2770. Well, much of (English) Canada is like America. Why not?
    1
  2771. OUCH!
    1
  2772. You mean wanting to stay there.
    1
  2773. Because thanks to government taxes and restrictions, those are the only high-density housing developers are legally allowed to build with a decent ROI.
    1
  2774. Underworked and overpaid.
    1
  2775. Because they're not a charity. And even if they wanted to build affordable housing they can't due to high land values, property taxes, permit fees and zoning restrictions.
    1
  2776. And without business, employees wouldn't have a job at all.
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  2777.  @vanillarpgsoundtracks  How many Peruvians live in Canada to begin with? Most of the Latinos Canada get are from Mexico.
    1
  2778. Due to the general lack of viable transport means.
    1
  2779.  @AStri-zg5xc  WeCharity, the sponsorship scandal, SNC-Lavalin, etc.
    1
  2780.  @rps1689  And you give corporations too much credit.
    1
  2781. Much of what ails Native Indians happened under Liberal leadership.
    1
  2782. The government is the reason why prices are high to begin with. Carbon Tax?
    1
  2783. Price controls = shortages. Haven't you learned anything from Venezuela?
    1
  2784.  @shelleywilcox8703  No. Governments are. Tax the rich = tax and regulate the competition into poverty and bankruptcy.
    1
  2785. Growing food locally is not a viable option up North as there is no arable land to grow anything on due to the Arctic climate.
    1
  2786. Yes it does. And Canada's crisis has a lot to do with government interference in the market.
    1
  2787. Who's we? Valerie Plante and Project Montreal are not with us.
    1
  2788.  @coopsnz1  Who knew that social democracy would be expensive to maintain?
    1
  2789. Who knew that their choice not to learn how to drive would have some dire consequences?
    1
  2790.  @johncam8420  And Canada has domestic trade restrictions. Provinces have more free trade with foreign countries than with other provinces.
    1
  2791.  @titusmccarthy  That's nothing. People are free to find a place that was built before 2018. Good luck with that as thanks to rent control still in effect, it's not available.
    1
  2792. What were the wages back then?
    1
  2793. Wanting little to do with them because of their ways.
    1
  2794. And Canada just added 1 million new people into the overall population count in the past year.
    1
  2795. The same big business that the government indirectly owns?
    1
  2796.  @planefan082  <You make a truly great city if it's affordable AND enjoyable> Not really. You can only have one or the other.
    1
  2797.  @planefan082  <Regulations on pricing/de-commodification of housing> Toronto already did that to rather disastrous results.
    1
  2798. Yes indeed. For those who think otherwise, they're free to go live in Cuba and sell themselves as a side-job.
    1
  2799. Including one that subsidizes Amazon's shipping costs to the North?
    1
  2800.  @robertgibb6990  Not before you go off to the rice fields with the other peasants.
    1
  2801. <People are greedy. > Especially those who want to live the high life on a store cashier's salary.
    1
  2802. We can't. And besides it won't last very long as that money will eventually run out and most people will just piss it all away.
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  2803.  @sexynelson100  The same democratic socialism that bankrupted Venezuela and Greece?
    1
  2804.  @PureLotusPond  But they have no obligation to.
    1
  2805. Um. No. The government doing something about this has only enabled and further exacerbated the problem.
    1
  2806. Price controls = future shortages.
    1
  2807. And more housing shortages.
    1
  2808.  @easternsaxon7820  Or like North Korea.
    1
  2809. <Canadians cannot start families to grow the population because housing is so unaffordable> Yet they can afford their convenient lifestyles and a household debt that stands alone in the developed world.
    1
  2810.  @SandraHertel-u3b  <how do you expect people with little money to move across the country away from their family with no new job awaiting them?> Yet immigrants and your grandparents found a way.
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  2811. <Time to go back to small grocers, as they have NEVER POSTED MILLION DOLLAR PROFITS> That's because they don't have client base or the store space to do such even on their best year. And virtually all the big grocers started out small.
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  2812. Yes it does unlike the socialism a lot of people's grandparents fled from.
    1
  2813.  @brandanB80  It works in Europe. Even in every other liberal's favorite region, Scandinavia.
    1
  2814.  @brandanB80  Yes it does. And too ----ing bad for you if you don't think so.
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  2815. Yet it's leftists practicing trickle-down economics. I thought they said the model didn't work.
    1
  2816. Increase in insurance premiums, repair and maintenance costs, property tax and other taxes, mortgage and interest, etc.
    1
  2817. Including the government?
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  2818.  @rogiervantilburg3440  Why work when you can collect CERB?
    1
  2819. For what? Canada barely has any rich to tax.
    1
  2820.  @JA-ze6yb  Higher wages = higher business costs = higher prices.
    1
  2821. The Devil is not a child of God but a rebellious orphan who got rightfully disowned.
    1
  2822. Especially Quebec.
    1
  2823. End birthright citizenship. Any baby born to foreign parents = foreigner.
    1
  2824. LOL.
    1
  2825.  @TheRandCrews  Because the government could no longer afford to run it.
    1
  2826. Including that of average people living beyond their means.
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  2827.  @darrylcote3971  < I can assure you that Quebec is not looked at as an opportunity for most Canadians.> Namely English-speakers who can't be bothered to learn French.
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  2828. Nunavut has no real industries and much of the salaries are taxpayer-subsidized.
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  2829.  @teagoldleaf4137  Definitely better than the NDP. That's for sure. The NDP were a perennial one-term party for a reason.
    1
  2830.  @thrillhouse7867  <cons only care about rich people> So do libs.
    1
  2831. Manitoba to go the way of early 90's Ontario.
    1
  2832. Take that up with Premier Ford.
    1
  2833. Makes perfect sense. Just about anything government-run is inefficient and costly.
    1
  2834.  @parkerbohnn  Yet Quebec's crisis is nowhere nearly as dire as Ontario's or British Columbia's.
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  2835.  @CarFreeSegnitz  <Excessive rents have hit the small towns too.> Thanks to rich city folks moving in to work remotely.
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  2836. Due to the city folks that moved in to work from home.
    1
  2837. Compassionate or gullible?
    1
  2838. Greed is a manifestation of pride, the greatest sin of them all.
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  2839.  @piku5637  Yes they are. And Canada was much better off when Harper was in charge.
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  2840. Ditto for Europe as even the smallest of European countries have the population density to support lower prices.
    1
  2841. And die out by age 40?
    1
  2842. Enabled by government policy.
    1
  2843. Increasing prices in response to the increased costs of getting the food on the shelves thanks to the government imposing carbon and fuel taxes on their suppliers and producers.
    1
  2844. And I presume they're Liberal-voters, right?
    1
  2845. Nope.
    1
  2846. Not as much as the government is.
    1
  2847. <We all deserve the fruits of our collective labor> Should have started your own business. Otherwise you get paid what you negotiate.
    1
  2848. And thanks to rent control, they're not legally allowed to charge the amount required to meet basic operating expenses.
    1
  2849.  @dagothhyde7297  Because most jobs are low-level service-sector work that were never known for paying anything above minimum wage.
    1
  2850.  @sexygeek8996  It doesn't make sense in the city as people tend to move a lot.
    1
  2851.  @davidjym  Or another province.
    1
  2852. Like in Halifax?
    1
  2853. <Otherwise private builders or landlord of private property will keep on increasing rent> As land values, property taxes, mortgages and interest increase.
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  2854. I didn't know their interest included being more government control of the economy.
    1
  2855. Not nearly as much as socialism do.
    1
  2856. Nope. Try government over-regulation.
    1
  2857. First make it easier for landlords to evict bad tenants in a timely manner and long-term rentals viable again.
    1
  2858.  @zacatkinson3926  What is there to get? That's what most people's grandparents did during the Great Depression when they could no longer afford to live in the big city. Pay up or move out.
    1
  2859.  @thatsenoughoutofyou  But that's not socialism. Try state-controlled economies.
    1
  2860. Or local consumers as they need their goods low-priced.
    1
  2861.  @CanadaMyHome  If it's not true, then why don't you go build some housing then instead of waiting on those millionaires and billionaires "with heart?"
    1
  2862. <Safe housing is a human right. > No it isn't.
    1
  2863.  @lynn858  International law is not legally binding. And countries are well within their rights not to provide housing let alone safe housing.
    1
  2864. It's not the developers' job to build affordable housing. Plus, affordable housing is not affordable to build or maintain.
    1
  2865. One problem. The average American has more after-tax income than the average Canadian.
    1
  2866. There is nothing illegal about what Galen Weston is doing. And this is not a legal matter.
    1
  2867.  @AlwaysUp-uf9dl  No he isn't. And there's nothing stopping those children's parents from buying their food from the competition.
    1
  2868. <the only people who can afford living in canada are the those who own property, > Who make up 66% of the population.
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  2869.  @6ix1111  Cash grabs to recoup all the money they lost to rent freezes and eviction bans.
    1
  2870. Which only means higher rent for tenants to cover that triple tax you expect landlords to pay.
    1
  2871.  @dalerook3724  Government intervention has only exacerbated the ever-increasing rental rates.
    1
  2872. Canada has far fewer people, though.
    1
  2873. How are they being greedy? Raise the minimum wage = raise the operating costs = more employees getting their hours reduced or fired as they have become too costly to keep around.
    1
  2874. Don't forget a specific kind of language.
    1
  2875. Exactly.
    1
  2876. They operate as independent franchises. The HQs make their money from real estate and royalties.
    1
  2877. Costco is not Canadian.
    1
  2878.  @catherinewilson1079  And you guessed wrong.
    1
  2879. Who needs them when there's China doing exactly that?
    1
  2880. LOL. Prices would have to be raised just to cover that tax on rental profits.
    1
  2881.  @imageitinerary  <if you remove the financial incentives from investors, more inventory will open to would-be buyers.> No. Less inventory will be built or maintained.
    1
  2882.  @colleenpeck6347  Mostly Americans by other Americans.
    1
  2883. @conway Not really. Federal workers = privileged class.
    1
  2884. <Viewing every house and garden apartment as a building lot instead of a home is what got us here.> Which coincides with the decline in marriage and people having kids.
    1
  2885. <BILLIONS of profits> Thanks to inflation and higher taxes which costed them billions just to get into the stores to sell.
    1
  2886.  @RebeccaJones-q5z  <profits metro makes.> From real estate, royalties and revenues generated by Jean Coutu and other subsidiaries it owns. Those workers need to take up the issue with the franchise-managers as the heads live in Quebec.
    1
  2887. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only conservatives provinces in Canada. The rest are varying degrees of liberal.
    1
  2888.  @tameredanslederriere  And taxes are higher than the rest of Canada.
    1
  2889. <How about ottawa does its job and forces grocery stores to lower and cap the price of food,> Then you better not cry about shortages and higher prices on whatever's left to buy.
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  2890. How? You can't build anything underground in a locale known for permafrost.
    1
  2891. Who knew that the government would exploit workers as badly if not worse than a CEO?
    1
  2892. While boasting about being strong and independent.
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  2893.  @Tobi-ln9xr  Germany also has a housing crisis.
    1
  2894.  @JeremyMacDonald1973  Which in turn shrinks the tax base and the revenues governments collect to keep their jurisdictions functioning.
    1
  2895.  @bonbonvegabon  And allowed landlords to recoup all the money they lost due to rent freezes and eviction moratoriums imposed by the government.
    1
  2896. Because they invest while the poor spend all they have.
    1
  2897.  @juliepark99  Yet most people in Toronto and Vancouver make well above $15/hour.
    1
  2898. Price controls = shortages and higher prices for whatever's left. There's already one Venezuela. We don't need another.
    1
  2899. <Canada is know for work life balance> That's a Quebec thing. The rest of Canada is more or less on par with the US when it comes to work-life balance.
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  2900.  @atd5684  Not everyone works for big business. It's even funnier how the left think big business is the only employer that exists.
    1
  2901. They already do. Work for the people. People who own property and pay taxes.
    1
  2902. And people happily voted for it. SMH
    1
  2903. Sounds like the typical leftist-run city.
    1
  2904. So? What's wrong with him looking out for his own? White people do it all the time.
    1
  2905. The business-owners are far from incompetent.
    1
  2906. Major metropolitan area problems to be exact.
    1
  2907. Eh. No.
    1
  2908. Sweden is ran by SJW's.
    1
  2909.  @PricillaMaillet  <Governments could put massive regulations in effect but they simply don’t want t> They already did that. And that brought us short-term renting, corporate buyouts, scarce supply and higher prices. <start penalizing greedy mega corporations by implementing massive taxes on them that comes back to Canadians.> In the form of higher unemployment, disinvestment and higher prices to cover said massive taxes.
    1
  2910. Namely city folk who voted for him.
    1
  2911. That were either trash or stolen.
    1
  2912. They sign the checks those workers work hard for.
    1
  2913. No. As usual, the only people eligible for it are seniors, disabled and meth-heads.
    1
  2914. Allow landlords to evict bad tenants in a timely manner.
    1
  2915. Because NIMBY's and local zoning laws made them the only high-density housing legally allowed to be built with a decent ROI.
    1
  2916.  @paulat8444  Thank local zoning restrictions and NIMBY's for that.
    1
  2917.  @9UaYXxB  But Canada's model is not sustainable especially without a productive economy.
    1
  2918. <Manitoba is great place as well as Nova Scotia with great choices for rent> But limited opportunities and desirability.
    1
  2919.  @STKGarageCanada  Exactly.
    1
  2920. Exactly.
    1
  2921. Government meddling-induced high demand and government-imposed low supply.
    1
  2922. And watch most of the people piss it all away ending up right to square one broke and struggling.
    1
  2923. But the taxes are higher.
    1
  2924. But the average American has more disposable income than the average Canadian.
    1
  2925. For what?
    1
  2926. Nope. Toronto's market is over-regulated and bureaucratic for that.
    1
  2927. <Most rich people do not want to be around poor people.> Neither do most poor people once they land themselves a decent-paying gig and can afford to live somewhere nicer.
    1
  2928. According to who?
    1
  2929. You want a fair tax system? Why don't you support flat tax?
    1
  2930. Taxing the rich ironically hurts the poor.
    1
  2931. No. How about close the borders and restrict immigration?
    1
  2932. But it did side with Germany.
    1
  2933.  @morimoko  Because the government made LTR unviable.
    1
  2934. But socialism is still not a viable solution.
    1
  2935. Rent control = just hope you don't end up being the one looking for housing.
    1
  2936. $4 000 CAD = $2 960 USD.
    1
  2937.  @Steve-mz7np  But Chretien ended social housing built and funded by the federal government as soon as he got into office.
    1
  2938. So is the government.
    1
  2939. Justin Trudeau even more so.
    1
  2940.  @voyageproper  How about no? You're free to move to Venezuela if you want those policies.
    1
  2941. That's what the suburbs are for.
    1
  2942.  @asad5067  Yeah! And? It's not her fault your parents didn't leave anything behind for you to inherit. You sound bitter.
    1
  2943. Unless it's for personal gain.
    1
  2944. Except Dollarama is Canadian-owned and Dollar Tree is American-owned.
    1
  2945. When the unboosted become the new unvaxxed.
    1
  2946. Who's no one?
    1
  2947.  @vmitchinson  If you were the government, you would do nothing as you're not going to risk having people starve because you taxed and regulated their access to food out of business just to combat perceived greed.
    1
  2948. Those who've made more than $39K in the past year.
    1
  2949. Well, they're not building anything for free or at a loss.
    1
  2950. And end up like France circa 2015? They did exactly that only to scrap it, because they lost too many people to migration and it didn't generate the revenue they thought it would. And they had a socialist government in charge.
    1
  2951. LOL
    1
  2952. Liberals were never for the working class anyway. They're for the elites and deadbeats of society.
    1
  2953. Housing co-ops are not exactly a viable option for those not physically able to do some upkeep.
    1
  2954.  @two-sense  Simple. Everyone's drive to be something directs them to the big city where the infrastructure and support are located.
    1
  2955. So, we should stay at the mercy of the government-run cartels we currently have?
    1
  2956. Because also people are willing to pay the higher rent.
    1
  2957. Free but mediocre with understaffed, underfunded and undersupplied clinics and hospitals to boot.
    1
  2958. Just like the politicians you voted for.
    1
  2959. hat about municipal governments?
    1
  2960. How so? In a real police state, the homeless would have got disappeared.
    1
  2961. <But Government should give rental supplement to people based on their income.> With money taxed from those not eligible for such.
    1
  2962. Justin Trudeau = conservative now?
    1
  2963. Thanks to provincial government meddling which keeps domestic tuition artificially low and restricts the colleges' ability to charge the amount sufficient to cover the costs.
    1
  2964. <These greedy companies will fight tooth and nail to keep their monopolies and the government won't likely do a damn thing to help.> And Canadians will happily support it in the name of not being like those Americans.
    1
  2965. LOL. The only thing the unvaxxed did was inadvertently expose how badly mismanaged and unsustainable the system was all along.
    1
  2966.  @chavafinkler36  <To clarify, in Canada, people inherit wealth from their parents and do not pay any taxes. When people inherit wealth, they are not entitled to it.> Yes they are according to the parents that left behind something for their offspring to inherit. It's not their fault your own parents didn't have the foresight or sense to do the same for you. <They have not worked for it. They receive by virtue of their birth> So? <Why should rich folks receive money simply because of the family into which they were born?> Because that money was intended for them to have by their parents?
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  2967. Climate change is just a figment of the leftist's imagination. <You think things are bad now… wait they are in power> Like 2011?
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  2968.  @lonelygardener44  It is the landlord's house. It was he/she who put the money and willingly took on the financial and legal responsibilities to own the property. The tenant risked nothing except a rejected/declined application.
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  2969.  @Sam19509  You mean their head offices that make most of their money from royalties and real estate.
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  2970. Administrators and bureaucrats.
    1
  2971. LA has the prestige and industry to justify its high rents.
    1
  2972. <The dollar store I’ll be closed in a year unless they get back to the regular $1 or $2 that’s it no 5 dollar bullshit.> Those days are not coming back. And most of Dollarama's products are $4 tops.
    1
  2973. How much did your company have to pay in land acquisition costs and building permit fees?
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  2974.  @B.D.F.  The same capitalist model that allowed Canada to have a social safety net.
    1
  2975. Exactly.
    1
  2976. Or if Canadians are willing to pay higher prices to offset their higher operating costs as a result of hiring local.
    1
  2977. Alongside the provinces.
    1
  2978. LOL. Don't be naive. Canada's Parliament cares nothing about the people. This is just posturing.
    1
  2979.  @Shawn_Boyce  Exactly.
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  2980. And rightfully so. EBAY is a business.
    1
  2981. The government is not dumb. Social programs are the government's (especially leftist) way of population control.
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  2982.  @momtur4875  Understand what? Anything government-run = mismanaged, inefficient, inadequate.
    1
  2983.  @approots  ROFL.
    1
  2984.  @Canada_Dominium  While in Cuba, only the government eats.
    1
  2985.  @Canada_Dominium  No they don't and hardly anyone in Canada is in a hurry to trade places with a Cuban.
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  2986. No. It's the geographic and market reality of Canada. Canada is just not big enough to support what the US have. Aside from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada is one big frozen no man's land.
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  2987. No it shouldn't. You can move to Venezuela if you want that.
    1
  2988.  @susanb4816  I blame Trudeau Sr.
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  2989.  @missa7631  Due to transport costs and being remote.
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  2990. <but part of the problem is a decision by the Mulroney gov't made back in 1993.> Wrong. It was a decision made by the Chretien government that just took over in 1993.
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  2991. Unfortunately the many moving to Alberta are really just fleeing the fallout of the very leftist policies they voted for.
    1
  2992. It's an issue because of geography and logistics.
    1
  2993. <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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  2994.  @gary7vn  In response to Bob Rae's imposition of rent control that caused housing shortages galore.
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  2995. And end up like Halifax.
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  2996. They'll do that when Germany and the like stop cheaping out on defence expecting America to protect them all the time.
    1
  2997. @Rise Over here305 But not many people want to live there.
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  2998.  @rachelk8368  Yet housing accounts for a good portion of Canada's overall GDP.
    1
  2999.  @gary7vn  So do their voter bases with the vast majority of them being property-owners.
    1
  3000. But the Nordic countries, Sweden aside, don't have mass immigration.
    1
  3001.  @Freetheworkers  Mass immigration in Canada started with Trudeau Sr.
    1
  3002. While being ruled by millionaires and billionaires. Xi being one of them.
    1
  3003. You mean $1 CAD = .75 USD.
    1
  3004. <We need to have stronger renter protection and rent control. > We already have that. And how has that worked out so far?
    1
  3005.  @DaughterofJesustheChrist  <First off they pay 3 times as much to the school than the students here who get osap..> Well, if they can afford to pay for a visa and plane ticket to get here, they can definitely afford the tuition. <Where does osap come from? grants and scholarships.> Paid for by local taxpayers to the provincial and federal governments. <Your problem should be with people who havent actually put anything into the system like refugees. > They paid into the system through their income and property taxes. Refugees pay neither.
    1
  3006.  @DaughterofJesustheChrist  <So please international student pay more into the system than the kids here. Make me so damn mad> Whose parents pay far more in the system with their income and property taxes.
    1
  3007. Transport costs =/= greed.
    1
  3008. Thanks to socialists in charge. And yes, fascists are socialist.
    1
  3009. <getting rid of peak hours on hydro> That's something you're going to have to take up with your provincial Premier as hydro companies are provincially owned and operated.
    1
  3010. Due to pride.
    1
  3011.  @carmenneumann9479  Maybe, but the poster is right. They made their choice. Let them live with the consequences s in peace.
    1
  3012.  @lgee9027  And political instability, corruption and the general lack of development.
    1
  3013. No. It's because smaller business can't afford the wage increases and to keep operating costs manageable, they have to either cut employee hours or lay off employees altogether.
    1
  3014. But even then, people would still have to pay through the nose due to the costs of getting the goods into the locale in the first place.
    1
  3015.  @derekhannon5502  There's a reason why Pauline Marois pursued association with Canada as opposed to unconditional independence only to get shut down by Stephen Harper.
    1
  3016. <Trudeau has been a huge disappointment, he isn't his father at all. > Who presided over Canada's largest inflation rate of the day and food banks being a thing.
    1
  3017. Exactly.
    1
  3018.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  Because the rich invest while the poor spend all they have.
    1
  3019. Who happen to make up 68% of Canadians.
    1
  3020.  @scottman572  Exactly.
    1
  3021. Aided by equally out of control immigration that can be controlled but few are willing to risk getting canceled to do something about.
    1
  3022. No. The government will just simply run it into the ground.
    1
  3023. Canada's policies enable and encourage monopolies.
    1
  3024. Only governments cause inflation. Since when did corporations have access to a money-printing machine?
    1
  3025.  @_Y.Not_  Actually it is, aside from aging.
    1
  3026. <Couldn't we build housing ourselves?> Not everyone can. And even if they could, it wouldn't be adequate enough to live in.
    1
  3027. LOL. But small towns are even bigger dumps.
    1
  3028.  @Allin_00156  But 66% of Canadians can.
    1
  3029. Because thanks to government restrictions, they're the only entities that can afford to build and own property and also put up with the government's BS.
    1
  3030. And living beyond their means.
    1
  3031. Most likely that of pride, envy and entitlement.
    1
  3032. At least it doesn't have perpetual shortages like socialism.
    1
  3033. Then expect even more expensive housing.
    1
  3034. But few people make minimum wage in Ontario. And $15 CAD = $10.65 USD.
    1
  3035.  @cantwait  There are more Canadians who don't have a family doctor than Americans who don't have healthcare insurance.
    1
  3036. How many people even buy a cell phone from anyone other than its manufacturer?
    1
  3037. Whereas in socialism, they wouldn't have been able to get an apartment even if they could afford the higher rent due to lack of availability.
    1
  3038.  @dylanc9174  Yeah! Cars should only be driven by elites and professionals.
    1
  3039. This is what social democracy and the welfare state encourage.
    1
  3040. At least San Francisco has Silicon Valley going for it to warrant its high costs.
    1
  3041. But the average NY salary is about double that of Toronto's.
    1
  3042. It goes into the bank accounts of those in charge of administering public services.
    1
  3043.  @m.a.p.g.  It's most likely poor budgeting. Home Economics need to be brought back to schools.
    1
  3044.  @KP-xi4bj  ROFL
    1
  3045. <we will be looting them in near future.> And you will be starving in the near future once you run out of places to loot.
    1
  3046. Haiti Burkina Faso Madagascar Cambodia Vietnam Lebanon Syria Laos Guinea Central African Republic Gabon Benin Chad Mali Senegal Algeria Togo
    1
  3047. I'm not.
    1
  3048. Price controls do not work unless you don't mind shortages and having nothing to buy with this newfound raise in wages you received.
    1
  3049.  @DCT-gs8lx  Anyone doing the slightest bit better than piku5637.
    1
  3050.  @kaputasri  The rich made the middle class.
    1
  3051.  @williamcureatz1628  That he happily voted for.
    1
  3052. <Then investors will dump them and look at that large supply and falling prices. Which would make it more affordable.> But where's the money going to come from for maintenance and property taxes?
    1
  3053. Nicaragua is a basket-case, though.
    1
  3054. Not really. For a lot of the people in the video, that is the least of their problems.
    1
  3055. LOL. The same HUD's known for crime, poverty and broken families?
    1
  3056. Also apathetic and docile citizens.
    1
  3057. Remove zoning restrictions.
    1
  3058. While Liberal governments leave public services bloated, expensive and mismanaged.
    1
  3059.  @common_c3nts  No it's not. Canada's system is only marginally better. <Tax payers get screwed in a private system.> Like in the UK, France, Sweden, etc. where they have private healthcare?
    1
  3060. Those people with vulnerabilities are not doing themselves any favors and are the primary reason why they are where they are in life.
    1
  3061.  @stevenlee7748  Rent control does not work unless you don't mind people struggling to find any housing at all.
    1
  3062. But that's only going to hurt the cashiers, bag-boys and local shoppers when the franchise goes under.
    1
  3063.  @grunklesmuff  Who's the rich?
    1
  3064. Maybe not, but what good is social health and happiness in a stagnant country?
    1
  3065. Pretty much.
    1
  3066. Feels like Romania's last years under Ceausescu.
    1
  3067.  @pluumpiiboi3434  Pierre Trudeau was the worst thing to happen to Canada.
    1
  3068.  @judsonmeraw6294  Or especially governments.
    1
  3069. Voted for by an ignorant and short-sighted populace.
    1
  3070. It is inflation and high taxes.
    1
  3071. And replace one oligarch with another one.
    1
  3072. <Tax the investors out of the market!!!!> And say HI to more housing shortages as few people will bother putting up the money to have new housing built.
    1
  3073. Housing is not a right especially if you can be denied it.
    1
  3074.  @Havel_the_Rock420  How about no and you're free to move to Venezuela where what you advocating is practiced?
    1
  3075. <quality public housing;> Those 2 words do not belong in the same sentence.
    1
  3076. Investors are far from greedy. If it wasn't for them, no housing would be built.
    1
  3077.  @freestylefranc2653  Keep telling yourself that investors are the problem when they're the reason any new housing is built in the face government restrictions that make building costly.
    1
  3078. But government is the ultimate monopoly.
    1
  3079. But real estate is subject to the GST and PST like any other good or service.
    1
  3080.  @HamidA-to8vy  Local zoning laws and bureaucracy are what's preventing new housing from being built.
    1
  3081. <Venezuela has the resources to be the richest country in the world, > No it doesn't. Venezuela was always dependent on oil even before Chavez and Maduro.
    1
  3082. . <HARPO the alt-right CLOWN was the worst.> According to bitter Quebecers, Ontarians and Status Of Women workers.
    1
  3083. <that earns the money> That they voluntarily agreed to do the work for upon getting hired.
    1
  3084. So are average people.
    1
  3085. And say hello to lack of housing availability, renovictions, short-term rentals and corporate buyouts.
    1
  3086. But of course, Quebec would want nothing to do with it.
    1
  3087. <It's just a glorified Pittsburgh.> That's Hamilton. Toronto = Chicago.
    1
  3088. Exactly. Not everyone can live in the city.
    1
  3089. Transport costs.
    1
  3090. Thanks to Big Tech.
    1
  3091. Until you can no longer and everyone starves.
    1
  3092.  @jasmines.6325  But it's still not a right.
    1
  3093.  @zacatkinson3926  Namely the cities and a few towns city folks are moving into en masse.
    1
  3094. So the government can mismanage them into bankruptcy and then have them privatized?
    1
  3095. Grocery stores have nothing to do with the carbon tax that jacked up the production and distribution costs charged by their suppliers.
    1
  3096. Eliminate the carbon tax.
    1
  3097.  @cndn8896  Mostly politicians, civil servants, medium and big-business-owners, etc.
    1
  3098. Yes you can. It's just that you much rather get bred out of existence than risk being accused of xenophobia.
    1
  3099. Exactly.
    1
  3100. You misspelled socialism.
    1
  3101.  @josephdarchambault6264  < mulruiny pulled the plug back in the early 90's- > Actually it was Chretien who pulled the plug.
    1
  3102. And Peru's situation is almost like Brazil's when Lula got ousted in favor of Rousseff. Notice how both the ousted leader and the replacement are far-left Marxists?
    1
  3103.  @lomiification  Take that up with Jean Chretien.
    1
  3104. Canada's housing market is OVER-regulated.
    1
  3105.  @piku5637  Well, what has more regulations done except price and regulate the competition out leaving corporations and rich investors to fill the void?
    1
  3106.  @StephenLeGresley  <Prices going up IS WHAT INFLATION MEANS.> Thanks to government over-spending and printing.
    1
  3107. The same science responsible for the making of Covid-19?
    1
  3108. Lucky Mobile = owned by Bell.
    1
  3109. General consumer goods.
    1
  3110.  @wavelength7503  Yet interestingly, Sweden has a higher crime rate than the US.
    1
  3111. And also the vast majority of the population are property-owners. There isn't much corrupt about the problem.
    1
  3112. Cuba? North Korea?
    1
  3113. To offset the record costs they incurred.
    1
  3114. Canada has more territory to cover with less people to serve.
    1
  3115. Canada, especially Quebec, has nothing on China when it comes to protectionism.
    1
  3116.  @noseboop4354  Say what you will about the PQ and CAQ, but their language laws turned to be a saving grace.
    1
  3117. Real estate prices are way too high. Mass immigration-induced demand is way too high. Bureaucracy is way too high.
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  3118. We don't have national healthcare. Healthcare is controlled by the provinces.
    1
  3119. Including the greed of many of that same most living paycheck to paycheck trying to live the lifestyle they can't afford.
    1
  3120. Hospital-owners subsidized by provincial governments.
    1
  3121. It's even more disgusting how left-wingers still naively believe programs in any meaningful way help the poor.
    1
  3122. Since when were Canadians rational?
    1
  3123.  @jptrainor  Exactly.
    1
  3124. Rent control is not a viable solution.
    1
  3125. <Grocers raise prices to gouge us, > In response to the government gouging grocers with the Carbon Tax and other taxes on food production and supply.
    1
  3126. Because the government benefits from it.
    1
  3127. We already have Safeway and IGA.
    1
  3128. Both are high-maintenance. And whatever successes they do achieve are often short-lived.
    1
  3129. While envy is one of the shortcomings of socialism.
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  3130.  @Anarcho-Pragmatist  Oh look! A clueless simp. The poster is right.
    1
  3131. Pretty much.
    1
  3132. Canada's policies enable and encourage monopolies.
    1
  3133. Landlords not being able to evict bad tenants in a timely manner legally enabled AirBnB.
    1
  3134. In Quebec, we have Videotron.
    1
  3135. Only for Anglo institutions.
    1
  3136. And on top of that, they are rich themselves.
    1
  3137. <and the properties will go to people who are less gready and more responsible.> Like corporate investors? This is what rent control enabled.
    1
  3138. And equally as many are living beyond their means.
    1
  3139. Who interestingly was mentored by a Black person named Willie Brown, a one-time San Francisco Mayor.
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  3140. Can't spell Liberal without the L-I-A-R.
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  3141. <Corporate GREED is behind the DEVASTATING Housing Crisis.> No. Government greed is.
    1
  3142. But who forced people to rent?
    1
  3143. <They helped orchestrate the problem when they were in power. > No they didn't. All of this happened within the last 8 years with the current ruling Liberals in charge.
    1
  3144. Because the government overtaxed and regulated them to ineffectiveness.
    1
  3145. @siegfried487 And don't mind living in squalor with barely any functioning basic utilities like Cuba or North Korea.
    1
  3146. So do the needy.
    1
  3147. But the Philippines is poor.
    1
  3148.  @ryanradcliffe9756  Workers can already own the means of production in capitalism. It's called entrepreneurship and start your own business.
    1
  3149.  @frayjais2942  A socialist is a fraud.
    1
  3150. And they happen to make up 68% of Canada's population.
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  3151. Better than socialism where that family wouldn't have any food to buy let alone at the prices being charged in their neck of the woods.
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  3152. Renovictions are a consequence of keeping rent artificially too low to cover basic maintenance for too long.
    1
  3153. A natural side effect of living in a major metropolitan area.
    1
  3154. Insistent on living in a major metropolitan area.
    1
  3155. For what? And turn Canada into one big ghetto?
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  3156.  @eerrm1  That's what motels and public housing are for.
    1
  3157. Enabled and facilitated by government greed.
    1
  3158.  @Ssccootttt  <housing is in severe crisis in every province across this country, and > Not in Quebec, Montreal aside.
    1
  3159. In the US state of New Jersey, it's illegal for people to pump their own gas.
    1
  3160. That's just not going to happen as long as you live in the city especially if it's popular.
    1
  3161.  @TheRandCrews  Namely tiny and overcrowded ones.
    1
  3162.  @johnransom1146  When Canada decides to do a major about-face on immigration.
    1
  3163. And their voters.
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  3164.  @piku5637  Like post-Tito Yugoslavia that eventually imploded. Interesting how democracy that socialism supposedly requires to function properly end up being its final nail in the coffin.
    1
  3165.  @titusmccarthy  <WRONG, CLETUS. > WRONG, CLETUS! Toronto is "conservative," only because of the suburbs. The city itself is a liberal/NDP cesspool.
    1
  3166. Because rent control = shortages, no new housing built and new renters locked out of the market.
    1
  3167.  @CyFr  No we're not. We're among the bottom tier.
    1
  3168.  @esparda07  And have more overcrowding.
    1
  3169.  @000snow000  LOL. Canada doesn't have a 1%. Only 11% of Canadians make 6-figures or higher.
    1
  3170. No. That would be the Liberals and NDP. It figures why they love social programs.
    1
  3171. Yet 5 years ago, this was what advocates asked for.
    1
  3172. Close the borders.
    1
  3173. LOL. We already have that. And mass immigration is doing the job in breaking the system. The real problem is government meddling, not the rich.
    1
  3174.  @leecampbell9498  Except Videotron.
    1
  3175. The land values, property taxes, building fees, etc. are too high.
    1
  3176.  @dennisheyes4561  Those affordable units were too dilapidated and costly to maintain.
    1
  3177. As long as there's mass immigration and people insisting on living in the big city, housing will never be affordable.
    1
  3178. <instead of resolving the underlying issues of the cost of housing which needs to be regulated to be brought under control.> Which helped bring about this housing crisis in the first place. The market has has enough regulation.
    1
  3179. <Build housing not for profits, > With what money? <The problem is that both Liberals and Conservatives are ideologically incapable of this.> Because it would all but completely bankrupt the country. And no one is building anything at a loss.
    1
  3180. You have only high building and maintenance costs to thank for that.
    1
  3181. Would that also include the political class?
    1
  3182. And workers either end up getting fired or their hours cut because they have become too costly to employ.
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  3183.  @XxCorvette1xX  And let the people suffer starvation from empty store shelves and chronic shortages.
    1
  3184. How so? Rent control did nothing but exacerbate housing shortages.
    1
  3185. As a matter of government policy.
    1
  3186.  @justiceleague9658  Are you willing to pay higher prices for goods?
    1
  3187. Under $39 000.
    1
  3188. And what's socialism's solution? What Venezuela has?
    1
  3189. Yeah! Mostly Namely 3rd-world migrants no longer welcome in America and disgruntled (D) voters.
    1
  3190. <Canadians can also do the math. Our education credentials may not be from Harvard or Columbia but our Canadian education credentials have more than equipped us.> Not really judging by their high household/consumer debt.
    1
  3191. LOL.
    1
  3192. Jamaica and the rest of the Afro-Caribbean don't want them either. Aside from race, they have little in common with each other.
    1
  3193. And market protectionism which namely benefits governments and local business elites.
    1
  3194.  @nickk1406  Mississippi has no jobs.
    1
  3195. The government is the cause of the housing catastrophe.
    1
  3196. But socialism is the reason for this mess.
    1
  3197.  @bonbonvegabon  Like Greece?
    1
  3198. <People generally eat more than they need.> Better than people eating less than what they need. Just ask a Venezuelan.
    1
  3199. As if socialism could. Under that, you'd be lucky to get a dilapidated home if you do manage to get off the XX-year waiting list.
    1
  3200.  @njam101  No. Government regulations exacerbated and enabled that.
    1
  3201. That's what happens when everyone wants to live in the big cities at any cost.
    1
  3202. That would be on the Mayor and city council.
    1
  3203. Property of the homeless = stolen or taken from a trash bin.
    1
  3204. LOL. Bernie is a professional moocher turned property-owning millionaire.
    1
  3205. Including the cost of personal greed. People living beyond their means and then have the nerve to wonder why they're broke.
    1
  3206.  @CommandoMaster  Exactly.
    1
  3207. I see yuppies, professionals, foreign students, etc. having no problem affording to live in those houses.
    1
  3208.  @sean4060  But New York is the world's biggest financial center. London is not that far behind.
    1
  3209.  @djtchamp5076  Thanks to Canada's tax policies.
    1
  3210. Real Estate is what's keeping Canada afloat.
    1
  3211. OUCH!
    1
  3212.  @galaxycat7960  Or is living beyond her means.
    1
  3213.  @agilemind6241  Because places outside of the big cities are not particularly accessible, hence the high transport/logistics costs.
    1
  3214. And Tokyo isn't flooded with immigrants.
    1
  3215.  @Ricah-Azzh  Because that's the only bearable place to live.
    1
  3216. But in the place in question's case, the train is useless as it's on an island.
    1
  3217. You're free to to go find an apartment that was built before 2018 to rent as that's still under rent control.
    1
  3218. <Unless we all decide to set up with farm life to grow and make everything from scratch,> But that's not a viable long-term solution as not everyone can farm and there's only so much farmland to go around.
    1
  3219. So are tenants.
    1
  3220. 9:25 Here's the thing. Every other Canadian lives where the jobs and people are. There are neither jobs nor people in the North.
    1
  3221. How about drop the carbon and fuel taxes so it won't cost too much for producers to supply and transport said fruits and vegetables?
    1
  3222. Then buy your own house.
    1
  3223. The lack of supply is partly due to government restrictions on building.
    1
  3224.  @lordflick895  The same co-op that's taxpayer-subsidized?
    1
  3225.  @piku5637  Who's the rich?
    1
  3226. And the record inflation and costs they bore to achieve said record profits.
    1
  3227. The government didn't force the Inuits to live that far north. They were already there and stayed by choice.
    1
  3228. No. Record taxes are what's gouging Canadians.
    1
  3229. Toronto is a liberal stronghold.
    1
  3230.  @Tjd1982  But NB is a dump. No offense.
    1
  3231. But most municipal governments are liberal/leftist.
    1
  3232. China is stagnating.
    1
  3233.  @maxxomega6599  Due to their own lack of foresight and general ignorance/stupidity.
    1
  3234.  @parkerbohnn  But the wages are also low.
    1
  3235. And end up having to work a side-job like a Cuban.
    1
  3236.  @mustardmike  Actually, healthcare is a privilege. Quality or otherwise. No one is owed healthcare and no one is obligated to provide it.
    1
  3237. Maybe, but doctors and nurses are free to work wherever suits them best. If it's the private system, so be it.
    1
  3238.  @ramsaybolton9151  Also too much bureaucracy. High shipping and transport costs due to the population centers being too far from each other.
    1
  3239. <It happened in Detroit> Developers had nothing to do with why Detroit collapsed. That would be loss of industry, White (read: capital) flight, etc.
    1
  3240. Government intervention helped cause the rent increase.
    1
  3241. The GBP is one only 3 currencies in the world more valuable than the USD.
    1
  3242. With some of them condemned awaiting renovation or demolition.
    1
  3243.  @GreenBeanGreenBean  Just like no one wants BC or Ontario's housing problems.
    1
  3244. Biking is not an option in most places in Canada, winter notwithstanding.
    1
  3245.  bobby5678-ck2tc  You had your chance to 2 times and blew it.
    1
  3246. The same Sean Penn who wanted prostitution in Haiti legalized so that the economy can be boosted?
    1
  3247.  @myrnagarrett4746  Biden is not going to do a thing as Democrats are every bit as corrupt.
    1
  3248. But not many people make minimum wage in Canada.
    1
  3249. Or stolen.
    1
  3250. <Leaving this job to the private sector alone can lead to such dire consequences.> Canada's housing crisis is largely due to government restrictions on supply which in turn artificially keeps housing prices high ensuring more property tax revenue.
    1
  3251. With the Liberals being the biggest beneficiaries. After all, they're the "natural ruling party" of Canada. And by the way, the system was a joke from the start.
    1
  3252. Or Manitoba?
    1
  3253. The dollar store is still affordable in spite of the price increases.
    1
  3254. Due to mass immigration-induced high demand and bureaucracy restricting housing supply. Never mind that that cities all but completely ran out of space to accommodate everyone.
    1
  3255. The only price-gouging going on here is that by the government.
    1
  3256. Rentals are not profitable. And you can thank the government's rent control and punitive regulations on landlords for that.
    1
  3257. The Prairies = no man's land.
    1
  3258.  @Sam19509  Yet under Trudeau, inflation is much higher than it was when his step-father ran the show. Ditto for people starving and struggling.
    1
  3259. Not really. Canada was always livable only to those in a higher tax bracket.
    1
  3260. Sabia has nothing to do with this.
    1
  3261. The people's fear of Le Pen.
    1
  3262. Including personal greed. After all, household debt is a thing.
    1
  3263. <but instead people who want to help regular Canadians> At the expense of economic viability like the NDP.
    1
  3264. <Technology shouldn't just help the wealthy make even more money.> Yes it should as it was the wealthy who put up the money.
    1
  3265. At the expense of availability and supply.
    1
  3266.  @9UaYXxB  <The shelters are an incredibly regimented 'option', as described, once in the doors you surrender your autonomy... > So? The shelters have the right to impose whatever regulations they deem fit.
    1
  3267. They're government-protected.
    1
  3268. Well, rent control did nothing except exacerbate the problem enabling the existence of Air BnB and renovictions.
    1
  3269. Rent control enabled short-term renting.
    1
  3270.  @karenkordes2210  Pretty much.
    1
  3271.  @kim.rose1888  A solid 75% Indian.
    1
  3272. That's the last thing Canada needs. State monopoly.
    1
  3273. <we have known they are the problem for a long time.> Yet you still voted for them anyway which makes you every bit the problem they are.
    1
  3274. Simple. Canada is oversized relative to its population.
    1
  3275. With more administrators and bureaucrats.
    1
  3276. But they're not tired of getting bent over at tax time.
    1
  3277. It is Trudeau's fault. The Carbon Tax and restrictions on production and distribution were all homegrown.
    1
  3278. Liberal/NDP-voters complaining about not being able to afford to live in their utopias.
    1
  3279. Even the Nordic countries have private healthcare.
    1
  3280. This is a government-created crisis.
    1
  3281.  @lornesouthern4170  Exactly.
    1
  3282.  @checkfactschecking  Mostly NDP voters.
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  3283. Rent regulations exacerbated the problem.
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  3284.  @bigpurplepops  And also account for at least 70% of all taxes paid.
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  3285. <But when homelessness caused by a greedy land lords, who raised the rents beyonds the levels of people's capacity, in this case, the government should step in & put an end to such a greed.> The government you want stepping in to put an end to this so-called greed is the reason why those "greedy" landlords have to raise the rent in the first place. Restrictions on how much rent they're legally allowed to collect to cover the ever-rising basic operating costs. Never mind the repair and legal costs of trying to evict a bad tenant.
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  3286.  @Mikinaak2023  It effectively weeds out the undesirable.
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  3287. <These ceo sitting pretty making millions a year, not worrying about food or housing> Just like the government with the tax revenues generated.
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  3288. Costco and Walmart are not dedicated grocers.
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  3289. But Canada makes up for it with minimal access to family doctors or timely procedures and unremarkable job market.
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  3290. LOL. No.
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  3291.  @gary7vn  BS! They have the money. It's just that they want to spend it on partying and BSing.
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  3292. Yet you happily buy the BS the government and MSM are trying to sell.
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  3293. A consequence of the liberal party who only knows one thing and that is to tax, tax, tax and spend frivolously to deep debt.
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  3294. I don't blame them one bit. Government-run healthcare = mismanagement, inefficiency, etc.
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  3295. Socialized housing = crime and decay-ridden ghettoes.
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  3296. Zoning restrictions and bureaucracy =/+ unbridled capitalism.
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  3297. And on top of that, few Canadians are willing to pay higher prices for goods produced locally.
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  3298. No. And the salaries of the people who live there are already government-subsidized. Namely those who moved out from Toronto, Vancouver, etc. for jobs.
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  3299. <there are all kinds of homes in small town nothern ontario where they could go and live and work there..> But there are no jobs or social support. <Live off the land like people did in history years ago> That is just not sustainable.
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  3300. <How did WE do it during the" great depression " > You moved where the jobs were or where living costs were lower.
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  3301. They scrapped the mandate.
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  3302.  @avenuePad  When Justin's step-father was in charge.
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  3303.  @avenuePad  Reagan and Thatcher fixing the mess that Carter and Wilson left behind.
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  3304. Violence and bad politics.
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  3305. We don't have free college. Just subsidized tuition.
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  3306. Because they hardly bothered to save or invest into their own retirements during their working years and are soon about to pay the price.
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  3307.  @respawnlock666  Compassion and empathy have their limits.
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  3308.  @minoozolala  <Divorce, medical problems and expenses, taking time off to look after elderly parents, alimony payments, disability, having been out of country for wor> Not really. <Maybe withhold your judgment and simply have a bit of compassion.> No. Compassion = enablement.
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  3309. Their pay is government-subsidized and the rents up there make Vancouver look like a slum.
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  3310. Jim Pattison.
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  3311. They already are.
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  3312. How is money stolen from others going to help poor Canadians have a little dignity?
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  3313.  @JebusHypocristosX  They actually employ people and benefit the economy. A lot of those poor Canadians are a drain.
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  3314.  @JebusHypocristosX  I have to admit that @user-wt5bf4rw7e is the queen of hyperbole and idiocy.
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  3315. <Companies raising rent again because of over priced new builds > Thanks to government intervention that made building and owning expensive ensuring that only the richest of the rich can afford to be in the market.
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  3316. The reservations make a valid argument against UBI.
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  3317. Then shop with the competition.
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  3318. Government meddling is the reason why affordable housing is no longer viable.
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  3319. While in socialism, all competition is outlawed and the government is the only competitor allowed to exist.
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  3320.  @Raidersfan-gn7zo  Eh. NDP wants to bankrupt the system like every other country that adopted communism.
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  3321. Louisiana was never a French-speaking state at any point in time plus the French-speaking population was never big enough to make it so.
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  3322. <the common good.> And what would that common good be?
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  3323. A lot of them are not suitable for housing.
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  3324. I just came back from the co-op annual general meeting. And the Board of Directors said more or less the same thing.
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  3325. Government meddling made Air BnB. It's the result of lopsided rental laws against landlords and making long-term rentals unviable.
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  3326. <instead of 1 bedroom luxury condos> Due to city zoning restrictions making luxury condos the only housing allowed to be built within city limits.
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  3327. And make the government the landlord by default?
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  3328. Only in places run by Democrats.
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  3329. That is the government.
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  3330.  @louisschummer931  Most Americans have insurance, though.
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  3331. Especially if you live in the city.
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  3332. <Sharing the wealth in profits is Communism or Socialism> Namely borrowed or stolen as socialism/communism was never known for producing wealth on its own.
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  3333. Here's another reason: Canada has no free-trade within Canada.
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  3334. Especially if they're past 30.
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  3335. How about remove the zoning restrictions and lower the land values of the city's most desirable parts?
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  3336. @@rightwingcollectiveiq What's British Columbia's excuse? NDP run the show and the province is the absolute worst of the worst.
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  3337.  @Cataclysm1  <Short term rentals are unethical > But long-term rentals have been made costly and unviable by government over-regulation hence why Air BnB is seen as an attractive alternative. <eliminating AirBnB would increase available supply for both purchase or long-term rent, therefore reducing costs in the end. > Not really as thanks to government meddling, landlords would much rather let a unit go empty than rent to a bad tenant they're not legally allowed to evict in a timely manner.
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  3338. They're most likely in on the take. That's why.
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  3339. That's due to transport costs.
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  3340. <Landlords, in particular, have been known to take advantage of the high demand for housing in the city, charging exorbitant rents and refusing to make necessary repairs or upgrades to their properties.> Like any other self-respecting business man/woman. It's not that exorbitant to those able and willing to pay such price. <One of the main culprits is the sheer greed of some individuals.> That would include tenants who think they have the right to live in the most trendiest part of town on a shelf-stocker's salary. <Real estate developers are also guilty of putting profits over people, building luxury condos and apartments that only the wealthiest can afford, rather than creating more affordable options for the average person. > Because due to local zoning restrictions, that's the only kind of housing they're allowed to build with a decent ROI. Plus, real estate developers are not obligated to build affordable options and lose money in the process. They're a business, not charity.
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  3341. They're overpriced because there's only so much space to go around and accommodate everyone. Higher prices are effective tools to weed out those who can't hack it financially.
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  3342. But few have any desire to learn French.
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  3343.  @missmurda90  .<so many immigrants coming to quebec > Mostly from countries where French is the official language
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  3344.  @Wildstar40  That doesn't apply to English Canada.
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  3345. The government doesn't build anything. That's contracted out to the private sector.
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  3346. Pretty much.
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  3347.  @rps1689  Thanks to the (provincial) government mandating the competition out of business as they were deemed non-essential.
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  3348. And not for as long as they insist on living in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
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  3349. Which is?
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  3350. Rent freezing is part of the stiff regulations.
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  3351. No. It's only a problem everywhere that's deemed desirable.
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  3352. <They are too stubborn and greedy.> No more so than the government, utility companies and banks are. <landlords will NEVER lower the rent prices as they are. > Just like the government will never lower the taxes, restrictions or mass-immigration-induced high demand.
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  3353. , <just bashing the main party that supports the people.> At the expense of other people.
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  3354.  @firefox39693  Rich people as in those doing a tad better than you being forced to subsidize the rents of those who either cannot or will not get their act together?
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  3355. But Quebec is the main reason Canada has any claim to being different from the US.
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  3356. Sure, Libbie!
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  3357. Canada's housing market is over-regulated.
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  3358.  @nightsmanasdf9058  Beats the brutality of socialism.
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  3359.  @icantwiththis  But that's restricted to citizens. And Kuwait was never known for granting PR or citizenship to just anyone.
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  3360. Government over-regulation.
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  3361. $15 CAD = $11.40 USD. Canada's minimum wage is really not as high as you think.
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  3362. 6th least productive jurisdiction in North America.
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  3363. <What we SHOULD be asking is why these corporations and wealthy executives aren't paying more in taxes?> They are and then some.
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  3364. For what?
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  3365. Especially bureaucrats.
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  3366. Montreal is nowhere near the worst. It's not even among the top 15 most expensive places to live in Canada.
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  3367. That they taxed and regulated into inefficiency?
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  3368. Case in point: Venezuela, Argentina and Greece.
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  3369.  @Felix-z2r  And then it stopped working once COVID was no longer a thing. Rent control is not a viable long-term solution to the housing crisis.
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  3370. Pride is even more so.
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  3371.  @ericlavoie399  But Anglos have far less presence in Quebec than Francos do in New Brunswick.
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  3372.  @ericlavoie399  And I presume it's some Anglo enclave in Montreal. Quebec = 7.7% Anglo. New Brunswick = 33% Franco.
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  3373. No. This one is on Canadians themselves thinking they're entitled to an opulent lifestyle on a minimum wage salary.
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  3374. Only to end up having a shortage of everything. Price controls don't work!
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  3375.  @darlene2709  I didn't know you and your gullible social circle = Earth.
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  3376. And San Francisco.
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  3377.  @igormcjazz3902  And live within your means.
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  3378. Electricity is a provincial monopoly.
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  3379. You mean thank Justin's daddy, Pierre.
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  3380. But socialism does not allow innovation which is a product of individual freedom it opposes.
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  3381. Define real human because real humans are narcissistic as well. Plus, the PM is just a reflection of the so-called real humans who happily voted for him.
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  3382. Also celebrities, professional athletes, etc.
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  3383. This outrageously high prices in the North is due to transport costs as Nunavut is remote.
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  3384. But the size of government has risen.
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  3385. No. It's a one-time payment just like back in November.
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