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Yes they have and as the old adage says, you can never go wrong with real estate. Also, as I said, the consumers are in a big way responsible for the huge rise lately. They are making the prices rise by the desire to own a home. Bidding wars is the norm nowadays and all that does is drive the price up. I feel, if the mortgage rates go up, the housing will drop. I was one of those unfortunate people that had a mortgage at 17%. I lived in Edmonton at the time and I saw many homes being abandoned.

Mike, the cost of a piece of property in a city/municipality in Canada varies and is different in each city. In Toronto a housing lot can be as little as $100K and the sky is the limit. Same goes for Vancouver. It is probably a lot less in Moosejaw Saskatchewan. Lumber prices alone went sky high last year (maybe the year before) so that had a huge impact on the price of a house or condo. Prices for building materials also went through the roof (we put off some renovations because of the super high quotes we got). Around where I live, there are construction, landscape, painting, drywall installers all looking for labourers alone offering $30+ per hour. Tradesmen are getting far more. My buddy in the concrete business said that concrete alone more than doubled in price and laborers are getting $40 to $60 per hour. Lastly, we are not talking about farmland. Having said that, the big debate in the GTA surrounding area they are building on former farmland. Lots of people upset at losing it but they are building anyway and those houses are close to a million (for townhomes, single family homes are more). Not sure where oyu are but, it is not a pretty picture in many places in Canada.

Duhh, the discussion is actually about Alberta Conservative Bill 1, Critical Infrastructure Defence Act Boom!! Blows you out of the water LOL

Just answering, or trying to put in perspective your comment about housing keeping up with population increases. 2 things, 1. Housing costs are what they are because of material costs, labour and development charges. 2. Rental rates are also dependant on material costs for repairs, labour also for repairs and municipal taxes and charges. All those things have gone up substantially and those costs are passed on to the consumer hence, the cost of housing is up. Competition in the market normally drives prices down except in housing because completion means more buyers than seller therefore the buyers are driving the price of houses. Trying to find someone else to blame for high housing costs is nonsensical because it is obvious, we are doing it to ourselves.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/housing-starts

Chuckle. You lost. Every retort of yours was denuded. Your headline is misleading, that is it and that is all. Accept with grace.

Duhh., one of the lamest attempts at...humour? insult? shaming? ever, for sure. Get creative Dude.

The Supreme court ruled on the entirety of Bill 1 (twice) which is your claim to be the "sidewalk thing". Not an Albertan but I think the Durocher thing was before Bill 1. Durocher can't do that now. Nice try but... you ain't got the juice.

Try to get the greenies to explain all of earths ice ages? Covered in ice to the equators? What caused them. Better yet, what caused all the ice to disappear and melt? Too many dinosaur farts? Maybe there is an earth cycle that has something to do with global warming?

And have not used them but, they are there is you need them....just like pharmaceuticals. Oh and the Supreme court agrees with Alberta. Of course, you know better eh? LOL

So, I had (?) cancer and was suggested I take Capecitabine. No guarantee that it would cure or even lessen my cancer. I had a choice, take it and the potential side effects and consequences of taking it or... not to take it. Would I be cured? No guarantee. Would it lessen my issues? No guarantees. What would happen if I did not take it? No answer. So, I was given the choice of "take this pharmaceutical product or else" I made a choice to take it and am glad, so far, that I did. I made the same choice with the COVID vaccine and so far, am COVID free.

Aha! So you admit,you have a choice and the consequences associated with those choices. There were restrictions long before COVID.

Ya have a choice in everything. Driving, flying, walking, eating in a restaurant, at home at a food truck at a drive through. Things can happen in any of those choices you make and those are consequences of your choice.. As for pharmaceuticals, you have a choice whether to take them or not and you have a choice of which ones you take and the consequences of taking them. Demented? No, an adult choice in each and everything you do and the consequences of those choices.... like it or not LOL.

Ha Ha Ha. Slap ya in the face with facts but hey, ya gotta keep up your "persona".

What is "bodily autonomy"? You have choices and the choices you make have consequences.

Billions spread out over years is useless to the Military. it only means they don't have to cut some essentials when tasked by government (like going to help with refugees in Poland as opposed to sending the public servants tasked with the job)

Sure

Almost $8M of 'Freedom Convoy' donations still unaccounted for

Scares me that they are going to give everybody everything and we are already in the worst debt in history. the Liberals and NDP combined will become the spendingest government in history. Generations ahead will pay for this.

Praise the truckers? For what? Protesting the federal government for what the province has jurisdiction over? The provinces had already announced their timetable for dropping mandates. Only Quebec had no timetable and now, is the only province that still has mandates. Seems everyone except the "truckers" (and I do not want to include all truckers as there were far more people than just truckers and real truckers were out in the Country working). As for what they got? They all got what they came for except for the few that were just plain stubborn asses. They eventually got what they deserved too, frozen accounts, fines and even some jail time of which one is still there because no one wants to defend him. I spent 35 years in Uniform doing the governments bidding, regardless of what government in power, I did it for my country. Show your gratitude to me, who did all the dirty work to ensure your freedoms.

The bill is a "law allows the government to levy heavy fines and possibly imprison anyone found to be unlawfully interfering with infrastructure like pipelines, highways, utilities and oil and gas production facilities." If you wish to extend that to sidewalks, roads, overpasses, parks or anything else, go ahead but. that is not the intention and , most of all, no one has been fined or has been restricted from protesting. The union has already been to court and lost and now it lost again at the supreme court. So, you have no argument., Just drama They can protest anywhere, and they have. As noted, no one has enforced this Bill and there have been lots of protests in Alberta since Bill 1 has passed. So, yes, your subject line is misleading. Typical of some here on this forum, you in particular.

Whatever made you think the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was the law? "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society." https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-12.html

Bottom line is the or the police or any agency did not, whether they "liked" you or not. Your subject line is misleading at best and completely wrong at worst.

I am not sounding or trying to sound like a banker, Realtor or anything just saying the the American tax deduction for mortgage interest would be helpful. Any little bit to help with owning a home is a great thing. I know I wished it was available for me when I had a mortgage. Any money back would have helped for the years I was paying mortgage.

Affordable for those wishing to buy a home. Any reduction or refund of money is helpful. Why so passionate about giving a mortgage interest tax benefit? It makes home ownership affordable because the majority of your mortgage payments are to interest. Getting money back for your interest on the mortgage only puts money in your pocket to offset your expenses. Banks are not responsible for your choice of loans, they give them and charge whatever they wish. Also, banks are not the only place you can get a loan to buy a home. Rent have nothing to do with mortgages other than the rental owner has to pay it and as it is a business, they already get to deduct interest and operating costs from their business expenses. Also, rents go up as expenses go up. Businesses do not (or rarely ) absorb increases in expense cost so, the renter pays. https://homeownershipmatters.realtor/issues/how-the-mortgage-interest-deduction-is-vital-to-the-housing-market/