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Originally Posted by Firebot
Good morning, it's been a busy weekend on this thread it seems.
Summary: Liberals despite being in power for 8 years had no policies that could possibly have impacted prices in any way, yet Ralph Klein, who's been dead for 10 years mind you, is directly responsible for today's energy prices. Also the right is fully to blame for housing prices because of some vague war against public infrastructure.
Correct me if I summarized or read that wrong? Care to elaborate on this war part since it sounds quite serious?
Apparently the CPC, which is not in power, seemingly doesn't care about Canadians because they don't have an election platform 2 years ahead. No party generally creates a full platform ahead of elections.
They do have a plan for housing affordability however, which they also put a motion on last parliament session which was voted down by the Liberal-NDP coalition.
https://www.conservative.ca/fire-gat...ld-homes-fast/
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en...309?view=party
Meanwhile the Liberals, currently the party in power who has the power to put a plan right now along with their coalition NDP partners, just did a PEI retreat on the PR pretense of tackling housing affordability and came out of it shrugging their shoulders. But they did enjoy some fine lobster and R&R and it was a great little PR moment for a few days to show they care.
Do you have any comments for the Liberals efforts on housing affordability or tackling cost of living? Regardless of Conservatives plans, surely we shouldn't wait 2 years to get a new plan from our current governing party? |
Man, reading that link...how does he expect to do these things? The feds meddling in municipalities?
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Impose a NIMBY penalty on big city gatekeepers for egregious cases of NIMBYism. We will empower residents to file complaints about NIMBYism with the federal infrastructure department. When complaints are well-founded, we will withhold infrastructure dollars until municipalities remove the blockage and allow home building to take place.
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Is he going to setup a Federal department of NIMBYism to study these complaints at a municipal level?
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Sell off 15 percent of the federal government’s 37,000 buildings. We will require these buildings to be turned into affordable housing.
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Yes, I'm sure they are all located in excellent places, and the buildings are setup for easy residential conversions...And why 15% Sounds like a nice number, or did you research this?
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Stop printing money. We will require every dollar of new spending to be matched by a dollar of savings. This will end the inflationary bubbles the Bank of Canada created, fueling a crisis in the housing market.
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This is dumb and every attempt at this leads to failure, because it is dumb. PP's weakness is he thinks there are simple sollutions to complex problems.