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He was a failure.... and why the 2015 election was beat down for the Con's. We were not as scathed because of our banking regulations and holding high risk mortgages and the fact our banks were/are well capitalized with no financial assistance needed there. Add in the booming price of oil at the time and a savvy Bank of Canada Governor setting monetary policy and we skated through it okay. Harper was a failure though...

For the record...according to google AI to my question; Did Stephan Harper sell 800 thousand low income housing units to developers Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not personally or directly sell 800,000 low-income housing units to developers.The figure of 800,000 affordable rental units stems from a highly criticized statistic used by political opponents—including the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Liberal Party—and labor unions like CUPE. Rather than a direct mass sale of public property, the figure refers to a broader structural decline in Canada's affordable housing stock. The Origin of the "800,000 Units" Claim The 800,000 figure points to affordable, lower-rent units in the private market that were "lost" or converted into high-rent, luxury, or condominium spaces during the Conservative government's tenure. This erosion occurred due to several distinct policy decisions and market trends: Expiration of Operating Agreements: For decades, the federal government funded social housing through long-term operating agreements with providers. Under the Harper administration, many of these 25-to-35-year agreements reached their end dates. The government opted not to renew the subsidies, which housing advocates argue led to the eventual privatization or increased rental costs of those units. The Private Financial Ecosystem: Critics point out that the federal regulatory environment at the time allowed corporate landlords and real estate investment trusts (REITs) to purchase older, lower-rent apartment buildings in bulk. These private buyers often initiated "renovictions" or "demo-evictions" to upscale the buildings and dramatically raise prices, effectively removing them from the affordable housing stock. Decades of Federal Disengagement: The decline of federally backed social housing in Canada did not start with Stephen Harper. It began in the early 1990s under Brian Mulroney's Conservative government and accelerated when Jean Chrétien's Liberal government completely withdrew federal funding for new social housing construction in 1993, downloading the responsibility to the provinces. The Fact-Checking Reality The accusation is frequently weaponized in modern political campaigns to target opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who served briefly as Harper's Minister of Employment and Social Development (which oversaw housing policy at the time). While it is historically accurate that Canada lost an estimated 800,000 market-affordable rental units to private sector gentrification and financialization during the Harper era, it is false to state that the government held ownership of these units and directly sold them off to corporate developers.

Sure it did....they allowed 800k affordable rental units to be sold to corporations. I already showed you Kid, tons of times. Sound familiar?

You used empirical testing, observation, and falsification to determine this? I'm guessing you didn't have your conclusions peer reviewed but you have every opportunity to prove that as well. That would be a two-fer and an excellent demonstration of the scientific process in action - establishing the truth of something on the truth of something else that's been established. Just don't neglect to show your work. Sez who?

Don't look up!

It's always funny being called stupid by people who can't string a sentence together without cocking it up. You do that a lot.

Appeal to authority pertains to the affirmative, based on popular support. It does not pertain to the negative based on popular opinion. Further, your ad hominem attack (because you meant the statement to discredit me based on my association with a geographic location) was also a bare assertion fallacy. It turns out that a plurality of Americans that don't live in Texas view the people that live in the state favorably: The survey from Crosswind Media and Public Relations shows 59 percent of Americans outside of Texas view the state favorably, with 33 percent having a "very positive" view of the state, and 26 percent having a "somewhat positive" view. On the other side of the spectrum, 21 percent of those surveyed did not view Texas positively. Not only did you employ ad hominem, you incorrectly used appeal to authority and you neglected to recognize that you used bare assertion.

Except you mean agents of the state holding people down and penetrating their bodies with medical instruments while they're screaming don't.

Good gawd dude. Yes, it is part of the Majority opinion and there are 3 parts, authored by 3 people. All on the majority opinion side. Again, I am always right: Congress (8) Senator Howard, when proposing language to be included in the 14th Amendment and making reference to English common law exceptions, clarified his intent that citizenship should not be conveyed to everyone born or present in the United States, when he stated, ``This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are FOREIGNERS, ALIENS, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons''. You are correct that it is embarrassing that this is 6-3. It should be 9-0 in favor of omitting foreigners and aliens just because they happen to give birth inside the country. Congress is working on a solution already. I am not hopeful it will ever pass, but it needs to.

I know exactly what they mean, and there's NO REASON to believe ^this OPINION. LMAO

That was illegal. That is not allowed. Those abuses happened with or without this. It has nothing to do with this and you have yet to explain how it does.

They were paid off, or they're activists pretending to be scientists, or it's both; whatever it is, it stinks of 100+ year rot and it's time to say bye-bye to the idea of man-made climate change.

And lies are lies. You seem to prefer the second to the 1st By almost every measure he was success As we were recovering from the greatest recession in almost 100 years. Gosh And he did better than almost all of his peers But better than most countries. Again we're talking about the greatest recession in almost a hundred years He was a wild success and it drives the liberals absolutely nuts. The Canadian recovery was almost twice the pace of Obama's, it led the world in many cases, and our recession was not as deep as long as other countries. It's hard to imagine a prime minister doing better than he did in those economic times I know that this is you off. But as you say the facts are the facts and your lies are lies

That never happened. That is a blatant lie. Show me the link that says that harper sold any low income housing whatsoever

Oh it's there, your brain just edits it out when you realize how stupid it was in the first place And once again your left denying having said something that you said because it was stupid

That's not part of the majority opinion. Just Kavanaugh's personal. It has no holding power and sets no precedent. And no, you can't simply pass a law that overrides constitutional law. That would make the constitution rather pointless. -- Congress could TRY, but it would again fail, even before this incarnation of the court. And there frankly isn't support for it in congress. It's really, really embarrassing that this was even a 6-3 split. There simply isn't a serious argument to be made that the constitution doesn't say and mean exactly what it says and means--and has meant since the amendment was drafted. And the SCOTUS majority opinion reflects that and is clear on that point.

Wow. You don't even know what ad hominem or appeal to popularity means.

I've never felt sorry for this warmongering murderous regime of Israel. Call it war crimes, genocide, whatever... They're murderers.

Covid deaths in 2020 go up by 35% over the year before Hospitalizations rise to triple what they were in 2020, back when they were "overwhelmed" almost 90% of the covid deaths are occurring among the vaxed eyeball "notices" that the covid jabs are "working" Don't take it personally, stupid. I do it to robodolt too.

Question - when these DSA psychopaths talk about "free Palestine" - what do they mean? Freeing Palestine for gays? Freeing Palestine for women to be educated? What do these idlots mean exactly? And where is this "Palestine"? Are they talking about the city in Ohio?

F*ck are you stûpid.... This is what sitting in your basement in Scarborough all day pretending to be American does to your brain.

You are wrong. You are always wrong to ^LIE What you quoted ^here is the opinion of ONE JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, who "dissenting in part." LMAO;