I’m also surprised that the new housing minister wants affordable housing while not having housing prices fall. Its like we were lied to again, which makes no sense, how could this happen?

Like anything in government its not done logically, its done based on the whims of voters.

The theory that can explain rising drug potency under prohibition was first described in 1964 by Armen Alchian and William R Allen. It states that when the price of two substitute goods is increased by a fixed per-unit amount (such as transportation or taxation) the consumer will opt for the higher priced, higher quality good because the price of the more expensive product has sunk in proportion to the price of the less expensive product.

Suppose, for example, that high-grade coffee beans are $3/pound and low-grade beans $1.50/pound; in this example, high-grade beans cost twice as much as low-grade beans. If a per-pound international shipping cost of $1 is added, the effective prices are now $4 and $2.50: High-grade beans now cost only 1.6 times as much as low-grade beans. This reduced ratio of difference will induce distant coffee-buyers to now choose a higher ratio of high-to-low grade beans than local coffee-buyers.

This is whats happening to drugs, prohibition forces logistics costs upwards and so higher potency becomes more standard.

There wouldnt be a housing crisis if there was no government zoning, zoning which is intended to increase property values and block new entrants. Its like a rhetorical question as to whether they should increase density to the people trying to decrease density, their answer will of course be no.

Theyve announced the “planning” of a high speed rail in order to garner votes, which will somehow cost double what Europe spends. This is vaporware and you wont get a shovel in the ground.

The EV rebate is coming back:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/new-ev-rebate-program-in-the-works-environment-minister-says/

As far as mass immigration from low carbon countries to Canada I’m surprised you wouldnt assume that increases emissions, especially given we are importing them into a housing shortage caused by a lack of density and no existing high speed rail, so they will be required to commute long distances. Canadians per capita emissions are very very high.

climate disaster protection agency

Doing what, like controlled burns of forests?

I think we have something like that already if I’m not mistaken, its likely just lost all its funding since the Federal government began taking a larger chunk of peoples disposable income.

We did mass immigration from low emission countries to boost consumption, BC just chose China to produce their new ferries which derives 60% of its energy from coal and has no industrial carbon tax, our largest city is still overwhelmingly zoned for urban sprawl as we subsidize EV for the rich instead of building high speed rail.

I’d say Canada overall doesnt care about emissions. There are countless examples of that.

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They are going to see a 2 million dollar price tag on a home or 6 months of miserable weather and they are going to leave. This is why we can only import people to perform capital shallowing, and not any educated people.

I feel Conservative generally means small government and limited government control with more of a free market approach, would a conservative support authoritarianism?

He meant it, he’s just rolling it back for optics. The average conservative voter in Ontario is likely to agree with his initial comment.

Carney is already removing their ability to block projects if you haven’t read the news.

Then may as well just remove segregated prisons, because it makes zero sense to trust prisoners to not game an easily gamed system. You’re insanely naive if you think that they won’t.

Our standard of living depends on US proximity, we don’t have the business environment to do anything except resource extraction.

They don’t want housing prices to fall, which affects every poor person regardless of disability or not. We simply fell for it again as Trudeau said the same thing, the Liberals will lie every time to get elected.

From the party that kept trying to push censorship laws, is anyone surprised?

Michael Geist will keep making articles until Canadians learn.

Well it’s six right now, you think inmates are good stewards of the honor system?

Was I somehow banned for saying this? That’s a pretty wild bar for being labeled a transphobe. I’ve got nothing against trans people, I have something against abusers of the system.

https://thundermail.com/ is coming soon and should have a private VPN bundled.

There are currently six trans people incarcerated in Quebec provincial prisons. Six. That’s 0.1 percent of the incarcerated population. There’s no data indicating how many of those people have or haven’t had bottom surgery, mind you. Regardless, it’s clear that we’re talking about a tiny fraction of people. This is a tactic from the anti-trans playbook that we’ve seen used over and over: taking an issue that affects a minuscule segment of the population, blowing it out of proportion and using it to roll back human rights protections.

If anyone can say they are a women and get moved to a women’s prison then who wouldn’t, I know I absolutely would, what percentage of men want to be locked up with men rather than women?

You’re the top of the pecking order in a women’s prison, you get to see things you don’t in a men’s prison, and theres perhaps opportunity for some action.

“When we said make housing affordable what we meant was make a tiny handful of affordable rentals thats well below population growth. Meanwhile we are paying half of developer taxes in order to keep property taxes low for the ownership class.”