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Originally Posted by jg13
Hello, I'm not going to go through the entire thread and I know the majority of CalgaryPuck posters are 45+ in age but 80% of the people I talk to and are within 5 years of my age (33) are all voting conservative without a second thought, myself included.
My question is:
I would like to know why those of you that are above 45 in age or older that own their own homes, think that Mark Carney will benefit us in our 30s over Pierre Polieivere. Pierre has stated he will cut immigration to the point where we're building more homes faster than we allow people into Canada and will allow first time home buyers to purchase their first homes without the 5% GST included in those homes.
The reason for the above question is because of 80% of the people I talk to in my age range (millenial) is because we're concerned about never being able to afford a home and if we're never able to afford a home, it affects many things specifically, like starting a family. From my understanding, Mark Carney wants to increase the Canadian population to 100 million by 2100 which is 800,000 a year when Canada has been known to build 200,000 places of living a year. He has publicly stated this.
If I currently owned a home this would be great for myself as my home would sky rocket in value. Please let me know on this particular issue, why as a millennial this is good for me.
Thank you in advance. Not looking to fight anyone. I want clarity.
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I'm 36 but I want to share my thoughts:
- I just bought a place this year. Just a condo since I can't afford a 800k detached place as a single person. But a home nonetheless. A huge part of the down-payment was made thanks to this thing called the First Home Savings Account, which was introduced by Bill C32. This bill allowed me to get ~$5300 in tax returns across two tax seasons while adding around $11000 in tax-free gains. You know who voted against bill C32?
Pierre Poilievre. How can you trust someone to help you own a home, when he actively voted against the one thing that essentially allowed many like myself to finally own a home?
- Canada will continue to require blue-collar workers to do things like... build our homes, plumb our pipes, operate our pipelines, and in Pierre Poillievre's bizarre phrasing of words, "capture lightning from the sky"... you're not going to get blue-collar workers from white-collar establishments like UofA from kids who grew up in Royal Oak. We are going to need immigrants to fill gaps like that, and that doesn't just mean in the urban centres, but across the country.
- Canada is a country of immigrants. Immigration is not why we can't build houses. In fact, we can build houses tomorrow if you're willing to live in Carstairs or
Black Diamond
/ Turner Valley. But that's not your preference, right? It's not immigrants hoarding the 90 year old inner city lots, and finally selling them to builders who tear them down to build 1.7 million dollar infills so that a lawyer can have a nice view of the bow river. The immigrants are out there living in remote parts of the city like Cityscape and Seton, where you could probably buy an affordable home yourself if you wanted to live that far out of quality public transit, age-appropriate urban living, short commutes. I'm not criticizing because it matters to me too. The immigrants are out there living in places like Marlborough and Rundle, actually driving down housing prices in the relative scheme of things if you're willing to live in immigrant neighbourhoods. It's the boomers who have four properties, hanging on to them with diamond hands because they treat them like their retirement funds, that are screwing you over. And Pierre Poilivre, while not a boomer, is definitely a guy with plenty of investment properties who I would not expect to sacrifice his personal net worth for Canadians' sake.
- sometimes there are personal sacrifices that I think us millenial Canadians culturally are not willing to make to save up for a down payment. Things like taking public transit or not eating out or living with family or not paying for streaming services. These were sacrifices our parents likely actually did make once upon time, especially if we're children of immigrants. Our generation has it rough in many ways, but we make it rough on ourselves in many other ways. One thing that's for sure though,
assuming that our generation is ####ed to poverty, I do not expect the Conservatives to give a #### about us. That's literally against their modus operandi. PP would love to criticize us because it would become a fun new target. I think the NDP is probably the party that cares the most about people like us, although I will strategically be voting for the Liberals because I am not, unlike you, voting conservative without a second thought