I agree with this. I think a lot of Carney haters conveniently forget who Poilievre is. But in general every good point this blog post had to offer was buried underneath writing that shouldn’t have been cut out in a draft.

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CMHC funded housing for decades. Conservative and Liberal governments funded it, and it worked in tandem with provinces that had governments of all stripes. That ended in the austerity of the 80s and 90s that was implemented by Conservative and Liberal federal governments. Immigration increases economic activity far beyond its costs. That isn’t in question. The original article and CMHC piece describe a reduction in demand for rentals as one of the reasons prices have fallen slightly, and suggest that a reduction in immigration is the cause, thanks to where the reductions have happened. So racists have to lie about its economic effect, because using racism is very exposing. This isn’t a question of race. It’s a question of government policy, and the effect it has on people. Poor federal and provincial planning has triggered a polycrisis. By fixing the mistakes, hopefully we’ll be able to welcome more people. In many cases, immigration can provide a fix by bringing in people we need. (There’s a missing conversation about what that does to their home country and the quality of life Canada provides after they arrive, but let’s save that for later) But it’s hard to have conversations about potential fixes when mentions of immigration are greeted with accusations of racism.

I find it interesting you are so fixated on the pancake aspect when the piece is (to me at least) quite clearly about the PM’s personality, and how it parallels his policy and actions. Thanks for pointing out the broken link, I’ll correct that Edit: that link seems to be working again, but it did take a while to load, weird

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Shouldn’t be that hard to greenlight the projects with support first, and the work on details later of those with objections. These folks want their communities to prosper, and infrastructure, jobs and development can only help. Whether it be using some of the local workforce on projects or simply helping infrastructure projects along the way there must be a mutually beneficial way to proceed.

America is now following the path that Nazi Germany took. It is on the precipice of denaturalizing its own citizens, which will precipitate its own version of Night Of The Long Knives. Which means that an attempt at seizing lebensraum should not be dismissed - Trump is already replacing key members of the military command structure with loyalists who will obey any command, no matter how unconstitutional. I mean, just look how the California national guard is being forced to play backup for ICE in California, against the wishes of its governor. As Canadians, we need to be ready to make their lives very miserable when - not if! - this attempt at seizing lebensraum happens and America tries to make us the 51st state.

The housing crisis is screwing generations of Canadians. Toronto City council is enabling it. The feds need to call out Toronto’s bad faith negotiations and withdraw the promised funds. (The feds also need to change tax laws to definancialize housing, enforce money laundering laws, build affordable housing, etc - but I digress) In 2023, Toronto city council voted in support of an agreement signed with Ottawa, pledging a variety of policy changes that included allowing buildings with six housing units on a single lot anywhere in the city. Federal money allocated from the Housing Accelerator Fund started to flow in return and then, during a debate last month, a lot of councillors got cold feet. Instead of voting to allow the sixplexes they had pledged to permit everywhere, council watered down the proposal. In fact, they took a fire hose to it. These buildings will be allowed in only nine wards, which together make up less than one-quarter of the city’s area. Councillors for the other 16 wards can opt in later, as if they are mayors of their own area. https://archive.is/DoPVJ

This trade war is not just a disagreement over trade policy. It’s a war of independence, and the US has decided that we should not be independent anymore. We’ve already ceded so much of our independence to the US over the last 40 years via heavy-handed economic treaties with purpose-built backdoors, they’ve decided we shouldn’t have any kind of sovereignty at all. War is hell. War requires sacrifices. War is destructive. We’ve not actually signaled as a population that we are OK with the damage this war is going to do to us, and it’s not at all clear to us what is necessary to survive this attack intact, and what is just basic shock-doctrine exploitation.

likes a dude that turns his life around You may be combining the brothers together. The Ford (Rob) that did crack while in office died, this is his brother (Doug) who was elected in 2018. But this is like one of those US senators that got caught soliciting How?

All this effort instead of constructing traffic calming road features. Oh wait, that doesn’t generate revenue… Speed cameras actually generate very little revenue compared to the financial cost of car crashes: Ambulances, drugs, police, surgeons. If speeding fines were to truly reflect the social cost of car crashes, they would be significantly higher. Also, the people who oppose speed cameras will absolutely FREAK OUT if you propose to reduce lanes. Look at what just happened to Toronto bike lanes.

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benjamin is specifically doing this to stay out of jail, the constant aggression is enough to satiate his own people to not turn against him.

Seems a bit odd that no one’s holding them to task

Is as Europe and the US, despite their supposed protestations. But Israel are close to Christianity, so they are the good guys, as per human logic for thousands of years.

lol yeah sorry was looking through someone else’s comment history (someone who seems quite hostile to criticism of dear leader) and found your post also getting a big pile-on from Canada’s Insufferable Liberal Hordes and yeah it ain’t great

I can spend it when I’m dead! I CAN spend it when I’m dead. I CAN SPEND IT WHEN I’M DEAD!!!

we can dream!

Canadian immigration policy in the wake of Covid was reactionary and a mistake, as has been acknowledged by the people who put it in place. Relaxing temporary worker and student visa requirements allowed companies and universities to exploit the government’s panic over Covid reconstruction. But this video is gross for a bunch of unrelated reasons. It’s racially charged. It’s dishonest. It’s propaganda from foreign money. I understand the impulse to try and pull the conversation back to a substantial policy discussion- that conversation is harder and therefore feels more important- but that’s not actually the topic of this post. I think there’s value in everyone recognizing and taking time to denounce that gross racists are trying to manipulate Canadians with the one-two punch of racism and AI Slop. Despite what I believe to be good intentions on your part, I would say that bringing up that more substantial and honest issue in reference to this video actually unintentionally lends them credibility they have absolutely not earned. Don’t let your impulse to discuss more important issues inadvertently let someone claim this video is actually “about” anything real. Your seriousness, admirable as it is, shouldn’t provide cover to these buffoons.

If I ever had a party I’d invite you. Have fun shit talking the fucking military.