We are a petro state, and our dollar tracks the price of oil.

We also loooove big trucks and quads and snowmobiles and big camper trailers and boats, and we all live in the suburbs. The physical construction of our cities and infrastructure is basically anaethema to any kind of green transition, and our worst idiots (30+% of the country) have this tied up in an idea of personal freedom, with any steps toward sustainability being totalitarian communism

Look at municipal zoning in the most progressive areas of Canada, let’s not pretend its just the Cons at fault for our current state.

The left also supports mass immigration with no place to put anyone given our housing deficit, leading to even more people commuting hours to work.

To the extent that there’s a left in Canada, anyway. The purpose of mass immigration is to keep housing prices high, as financialized housing is both the primary means of retirement savings and is also a cornerstone of the economy.

Ya I agree, David Eby is the closest we’ve got. But he’s torching himself with indigenous land rights issues, by giving privately owned land away.

Lewis’s proposals seem reasonable to me. On one hand you can’t just have a destabilizingly high rate of immigration, but on the other it’s extremely unjust to just deport a bunch of people who are already here, Trump style. We need a reasonable level of immigration as well as protection for refugees - this century is going to see a massive influx of refugees in general, and if we become Festung Kanada it will rot us from the inside out.

Sure, eat the young to feed the rich old boomers. Let’s see if that resonates.

At some point we’re going to have to definancialize housing, and the NDP Lewis is the closest option to that. The libs and cons sure as hell would never do it

Its financialized due to cheap debt and a shortages, caused by the BoC and the NDP themselves supporting mass immigration.

Broadly, he’s a step in the right direction, turning the NDP back to its socialist roots. At some point we could just have the government build housing and old age pensions, eliminating the need to have a house be a financial instrument for retirement

Margins aren’t very high on houses for developers, its largely government policy that is the highest cost. So how far can prices possibly fall by eliminating the developer profit, 10%?