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Global factors were significant, but countries had a range of ways to respond. We do know that carbon taxes have added percentage points to our inflation and raised interest rates higher than they would have been raised. We also see a lot of inflationary overspending from the Liberals.

I’m just giving one example of how deregulation of land use/zoning and housing supply can unleash huge volumes housing supply at much lower costs. Imagine if we changed “the system” so that environmental assessments could be streamlined on abandoned or unused commercial and industrial sites. It could be done safely with small carbon footprints. It means tearing down a lot of gatekeepers. Keep the bureaucrats away as much as possible. Let users and businesses find solutions without creating more expensive fluffy government administrative jobs that slow our productivity. Get government out of the way.

I think gutting Guilbeault’s carbon tax and regulation apparatus would immediately lower the cost of living by about 5-10%, and result in lowering interest rates by 1% due to the resulting lower inflation. After that, give a green light to creative solutions to the housing crisis. Of course more can be done to fight climate change than the Liberals did if we incorporate green tech into the building code and invite tech businesses to the table through deregulation and tax breaks rather than subsidies. Musk should build a massive modular housing plant here. Boxabi could crank out 200,000 units to Ontario alone immediately and still have a year long waiting list for units.

Not only are carbon taxes raising our cost of living significantly, they are adding inflation, causing higher interest rates, which makes the cost of living even higher: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/terrazzano-more-proof-carbon-taxes-make-life-more-expensive?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

Again, when even “good” wages can no longer allow you to buy a home and have good living standards, we’re in trouble. When “good” living standards still mean you have to sit in traffic for hours each day and government services are stretched, it’s easy to see how quality of life drops. If the social safety net incentivizes inactivity and dependence on the state, and if taxes and regulation make it cumbersome to do business and hard to get ahead, we’re in trouble.

Culturally we need to promote the capitalist worker/entrepreneur hero. I always think of the Atlas Shrugged hero John Galt. Kids need strong male and female role models who illustrate the importance of hard work, creativity, and self-determination. Canada has been promoting the weak, state-dependent depressive under Trudeau. The current assumption by our government about young people is that they’re caught somewhere between drug addiction and assisted suicide, waiting for the next rebate from the government, rewarding poverty. Poverty of spirit always leads to actual poverty Society must promote great fitness and health. However, if hard work isn’t rewarded and pretty good money can’t even buy you a house, then it’s harder to find motivation.

Policy should focus on making life more affordable for young people so Canadians can afford kids and those kids can replace retiring workers. The habitable part of Canada is relatively small if we want to sustain the Canadian Dream where home ownership and enough property for a garden and kids to play is possible. I don’t know the magic number, but my bet is no more than about 80 million.

The levels of government need to radically deregulate housing development on brownfields. There’s room for a million new residents in the Port Lands of Toronto. This land shouldn’t simply be turned over to developers to sell more overpriced condos to rich new immigrants from Asia. Stuffing 33 million people into the GTA will destroy Canadian quality of life. Canada doesn’t exist for the sole purpose of providing resettlement for UN initiatives. The smarter move is to focus development in smaller cities and towns beyond the GTA. Rampant immigration is driving up housing costs, adding congestion, and since everyone in Canada is crammed into the south, we’re losing out best farmland and future food supply. Canada for Canadians.

Yup, and it’s costing taxpayers billions in unjustified endless “reparations”, driving our economy, international stature, and national pride ever further into the ground.

It’s so easy to solve the housing crisis that the government should be sued for its neglect. If all industrial and commercial lands, abandoned or dormant, were allowed to be zoned residential, with a very simple environmental assessment and plan for septic, water, and electricity, hundreds of thousands of homes could be built overnight. Mini and modular homes range in price from $50,000 to $300,000. A studio condo in Toronto starts at around $450,000. If unused land was serviced by cities and paid for by users through a lease, not unlike a condo or trailer park fee, the housing supply would skyrocket. I also think that all levels of government should focus on building transportation links to settlements far away from major centres and support settlement and business development in these areas where land is a quarter of the price of our largest cities. This is all so obvious that governments should be sued for their incompetence.

Very few public figures have called out the TRC and federal government on its assumptions and lack of evidence supporting the “genocide” false narrative about residential schools. Thankfully there are still some brave, honest truth-tellers calling out the BS: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-often-ignored-truth/wcm/24ece8ac-b200-4ea2-a592-1ee9a17337b4/amp/

That’s exactly right. Peterson is winning hearts and minds as a media juggernaut. His haters try to bring him down by catching him out for opinions they don’t like and connecting them somehow to a code of conduct that has nothing to do with his expressions or opinions. Tenuous at best, but tenuous now meets the criteria for cancellation, which is what some jealous peers want. It’s clear animus.

Yup he is. The cultural revolutionary mob is forcing re-education on Peterson, though he’s twice as smart as the losers who came up with a “social media sensitivity” course. How about we have a social media insensitivity course? Probably twice as effective at saving the “safe space” mob from themselves.

False equivalence.

Canada gets closer to Cuba every day.

A million ways to say nothing. He’s being deplatformed professionally, so that the cancel club can say, “I told you so.”

Stop with your milquetoast sell-out equivocation. You only affirm whatever is declared by government, courts, and other officialdom. I get that you’re the establishment, but please.

Pluralism is dead in Canada and free thinkers should take note.

He’s a valuable influencer with a solid professional background. I think this decision says much more about the politicization of Canada’s professional governing bodies, courts, and courses than it does about Peterson. Truth-telling has no place in DEI-ESG Canada. The complaints against Peterson were frivolous and totally political. They don’t warrant censure. In our highly sensitive triggered cancel culture, truth is offensive.

If you have a strong community ethic and you are a good father, then you should know the importance of being a good influence and shouldn’t be spewing nonsense. I simply don’t believe you because your views don’t support what you claim about yourself.

That’s likely the root cause of most of our social problems. It’s incredible that some people think otherwise. This is basic Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. A person who is neglected or raised badly is at much greater risk on a whole set of metrics. This used to be obvious.

Yes. Lack of responsibility, which very much relates to upbringing. You have no concept of the importance of mentoring, parenting, or guidance to make such a snide, cynical remark. How do you think people learn how to act in life? A rehab jail for a term necessary for rehabilitation is better than death.

It comes down to irresponsible government. Assuming that people aren’t going to gravitate to free drugs in an environment where there are no legal restrictions, and that somehow these drug-addled, addicted minds are going to discern the clean from toxic drugs and climb out of addiction, is reckless beyond belief. Eyeball and Hardner have gotten their way and the results are catastrophic. I remember the arguments for clean injection sites, which I supported on the basis of public health, especially after the AIDS epidemic. Those sites became popular and expanded. Fine, take the bad with the good. Now with police essentially abandoning hard drug use and the state subsidizing hard drug supply to addicts, we’re witnessing the state as pusher and the total abandonment of vulnerable youth and adults. What more evidence do you need than the stat that death by overdose is the leading cause of youth deaths in BC?

The war in Ukraine has little to do with Ukraine, sadly for the Ukrainians. It’s about violations of security promises. You should know upon research who violated what assurances and when. You really have to ask yourself what the US would do if the tables were reversed. Some Canadians would welcome a US invasion if China or Russia manipulated Canadian politics and security agreements. Others would call US leadership monstrous. The invasion and escalation is totally unnecessary. It’s essentially the result of behind the scene Neocons pushing their agenda. RFK Jr. spells it out.

My gosh you’re a victim of propaganda. Please read some of the history on this.