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Originally Posted by Regorium
If only there was an industry pays extremely high wages to young millennials that would allow them to afford that cost of living...
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This is incredibly disingenuous.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You're talking about provincial issues, and you totally have my sympathies. However your new government is sticking their noses into something that they really don't have a say in under the constitution.
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I completely agree with you on this.
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Frankly we have similar issues in Alberta, we have Fentyl deaths and housing cost issues, and on top of it, unemployment issues and other economic issues, and frankly BC's actions are directly impacting the later two.
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The cost of living problems and the overdose crisis between BC and Alberta aren't remotely comparable. Like I said, we're averaging almost 100 overdose deaths per month here, and contrary to popular belief, it's not just a problem for drug addicts and the DTES. It's affecting recreational drug users on a regular basis.
The Liberals have had nearly two decades to anticipate and advocate solutions to these problems. Yes the fentanyl issue has really only popped up in the last 2-3 years but they completely ignored mental health and the issues in the DTES prior to that.
If you're a BC voter, like me, who is in favour of KM, you have the option of re-electing a government that is friendly to the proposal but is corrupt as hell, and will continue to sit on its hands as people die at an alarming rate and housing becomes more and more unaffordable, or you can vote for the parties that have promised to take serious approaches to these other issues and hope that the feds do their jobs in getting KM through.
I get that for people who don't live here or know anyone who has died or is at risk from the fentanyl epidemic and who stand to gain economically from the BC Liberals retaining power that it looks like those who voted NDP or Green did so to intentionally to screw them over but that's really not the case. For most voters here, especially on the island and lower mainland, the pipelines were way down on their list of priorities even if they were in favour of them.