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Habsy said:
Uh, Canada used to be better dipshit. You've fallen into the status quo which you bitch about in hockey but embrace in your country. I've noticed Canadians still like to hide the country's warts and pretend they aren't there.
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Canada has many problems. I'm not hiding from that. For one thing, we have a fascism problem. True, a lot of it is imported by Canadian conservatives from the US but however it got here it's here now and it needs to be crushed. When, during the pandemic, the poster boy for CTE Theo Fleury, was down in New York to appear on Tucker's Fox News show, he had photos posted on his Twitter feed of him wearing a Trump t-shirt and shaking hands with Roger Stone in Times Square. This was not an accidental meeting. Stone's dark money operation is funding Theo and other fascist turnips like him, to foment unrest north of the 49th. When Tucker himself does an arena tour in Western Canada and appears on stage with the Premier of Alberta, that's fascism in action.

Canada also has a healthcare delivery problem, again exacerbated by conservative Provincial Premiers who are trying to break the public system so they can privatize healthcare. We are told that there's a housing crisis, but it is more accurately a housing affordability crisis caused not by government or any carbon pricing scheme but by good old corporate greed, the same corporate greed which also caused the price of groceries to skyrocket. And the fact that next to nothing is being done to punish those responsible is another huge problem.

Electing Poilievre will solve absolutely none of these things. Quite the opposite in fact. Things will simply get worse, like they always inevitably do whenever conservatives are in charge of anything.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Canada has many problems. I'm not hiding from that. For one thing, we have a fascism problem. True, a lot of it is imported by Canadian conservatives from the US but however it got here it's here now and it needs to be crushed. When, during the pandemic, the poster boy for CTE Theo Fleury, was down in New York to appear on Tucker's Fox News show, he had photos posted on his Twitter feed of him wearing a Trump t-shirt and shaking hands with Roger Stone in Times Square. This was not an accidental meeting. Stone's dark money operation is funding Theo and other fascist turnips like him, to foment unrest north of the 49th. When Tucker himself does an arena tour in Western Canada and appears on stage with the Premier of Alberta, that's fascism in action.

Canada also has a healthcare delivery problem, again exacerbated by conservative Provincial Premiers who are trying to break the public system so they can privatize healthcare. We are told that there's a housing crisis, but it is more accurately a housing affordability crisis caused not by government or any carbon pricing scheme but by good old corporate greed, the same corporate greed which also caused the price of groceries to skyrocket. And the fact that next to nothing is being done to punish those responsible is another huge problem.

Electing Poilievre will solve absolutely none of these things. Quite the opposite in fact. Things will simply get worse, like they always inevitably do whenever conservatives are in charge of anything.
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System is fucked regardless who takes over the government

You can`t fix the corruption , waste, and bureaucracy in place for decades


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CH1 said:
Canada is pretty stagnant

Most of the problems that were around two decades ago -- unaffordable housing, low productivity, lack of high speed railways, turning high skilled immigrants into Uber drivers, etc are all still here
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Unaffordable housing was an issue 2 decades ago?? Maybe in Toronto and Vancouver. But for the rest I agree.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Unaffordable housing was an issue 2 decades ago?? Maybe in Toronto and Vancouver. But for the rest I agree.
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maybe not headline material, but you could see housing becoming a problem given the lack of building and changing demographics

by the time the problem fully arrives, it's much harder to solve
 
GEEMAN said:
Dirty money is a big issue in BC and Ontario
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not as big an issue as made out. Issue as I see it is a) we might be bringing in too many immigrants at this time, 500000 a year is a lot. b) if I'm wrong on a) the problem 90% go to Toronto and Vancouver causes huge hassles and housing/hospital shortages
 
The problem is affordability but politicians, especially feckless asswipes like Poilievre, only want to talk about supply. They advocate for "removing the gatekeepers" so that more houses get built but that doesn't solve anything with regard to affordability. It just makes the developers and realtors who comprise the CPC donors list a bit richer. Building 5000 sq. ft. McMansions and overpriced condos doesn't tackle the affordability problem and developers have zero interest in building anything resembling affordable housing because there's not enough money in it. They need to be incentivized to build the right type of dwellings, not just the dwellings they prefer to build.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
not as big an issue as made out. Issue as I see it is a) we might be bringing in too many immigrants at this time, 500000 a year is a lot. b) if I'm wrong on a) the problem 90% go to Toronto and Vancouver causes huge hassles and housing/hospital shortages
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I deal with large condo developers here in Toronto , dirty money in pyramid type sales is prevalent

Buildings are empty with foreign buyers who have to hide money somewhere or take tax losses

Tons of immigrant businesses like restaurants are fueled by dirty money , they dont generate a dime to pay rent

Way too much immigration with free subsidized housing for 3-5 years and now many are leaving Canada when the gravy train is over

Now the screws are tightening on foreign ownership , big reason condo sales are plummeting here in Toronto
 
GEEMAN said:
I deal with large condo developers here in Toronto , dirty money in pyramid type sales is prevalent

Buildings are empty with foreign buyers who have to hide money somewhere or take tax losses

Tons of immigrant businesses like restaurants are fueled by dirty money , they dont generate a dime to pay rent

Way too much immigration with free subsidized housing for 3-5 years and now many are leaving Canada when the gravy train is over

Now the screws are tightening on foreign ownership , big reason condo sales are plummeting here in Toronto
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There's an instagram reel making the rounds where they show a line up outside the sales office of that monster condo project going up next to Pickering Town Centre. Middle of the night and the line is a mile long and it's not regular people looking to buy a home for themselves, it's all realtors...Asian realtors.
 
CH1 said:
maybe not headline material, but you could see housing becoming a problem given the lack of building and changing demographics

by the time the problem fully arrives, it's much harder to solve
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Mtl had the opposite issue in the 90s - prices were dirt low due to supply >>>> demand.

It wasn’t till the mid-2000s that housing started trending upwards then just skyrocketed when govt introduced accelerated citizenship for immigrants bringing $$ to Canada around what 2010??
 
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