Canada intervenes (again) to stop housing prices going down
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canada-intervenes-again-to-stop-housing-prices-going-down
“And so what if they sell at a loss? That’s the game,” wrote Johns. “Why should Canadian taxpayers bail out homebuilders?”
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"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre hosted his own Vancouver press conference just two days later, advertising it under the title “Stop Liberal Housing Developer Bailouts.” “Normally, the innovative financial tool to turn an overpriced empty condo into an affordable home is for the price to drop … so why not let that happen?” he said."
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@mpjgregoire
When the market is unregulated the rentsl prices drop as the building becomes a drug and disease den for the destitute. The invisible hand often makes things worse, wise management/regulation is the way forward. Tax the rich and build proper housing with those tax dollars is the solution.
Despite the rats, roaches and clogged toilets at decaying rooming houses and hotels in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, activists and experts say they provide necessary affordable housing to the poorest people who would otherwise be pushed onto the streets.
@mpjgregoire
Same story in Edmonton: the free market creating conditions for crime because of inadequate regulation.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10918206/edmonton-shooting-apartment-history/
@mpjgregoire
So many gulity cons since Harper and now even allegations of treason...apparently the conservative plan for crime is to join in.
@NMBA When politicians commit crimes, let them be punished with the full weight of the law. Doesn't matter what party they're from, our leaders and those seeking to lead should show even more respect for the rules than the public at large.
As for the Alberta separatists, they should be thrown out of any party purporting to be conservative. It's hard to think of a less conservative policy than a plan to destroy Canada.
@NMBA The FTA was such a good thing for Canada that, decades later, not just the Liberals but even the NDP desperately wish to preserve it. Conservatives are right to feel proud of advancing Canadian prosperity by lowering and eliminating tariffs.
It is true that conservatives who voted for the #UCP empowered the Albertan separatist movement. I suppose a partial defence would be that the UCP electoral campaign didn't promise a referendum on separation or other such moves.
M. Grégoire
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