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  1. 9 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

     

    I don't think Poilievre has said he'll drastically lower immigration either by the way.

    Depends what you mean by 'drastically' i guess but he's said he will "match it to housing construction' and infrastructure - in other words keep it in line with how much housing we're producing.

    While he's not going to give a specific number (and in fact doesn't even use the word "reduce") for political reasons, given everything else he's said and number's he's pointed to he's pretty clearly looking to reduce it back to more like 250 - 300 k per year.  Which is about half what it is this year.  So that's pretty substantial.

  2. 1 hour ago, Moonlight Graham said:

    Demand and thus rent and housing prices would drop with fewer immigrants and foreign residents annually.   They keep beating around the root of the problem.

    For the short term that would significantly ease the problem.

    In time inventory would adjust and the problem would creep up again but during that time gov'ts can find ways to encourage developers to build more homes and for more landlords to return to the market to provide more spaces. And that also drops housing purchase prices (or holds them while salaries go up over time) so you get a win win - more people can buy, which frees up rentals and there's more places to buy and rent which keeps competition fair.

    But yes - they're just beating around the bush.

  3. https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/trudeau-housing-renters-bill-of-rights

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plan for a new Canadian Renters’ Bill of Rights Wednesday to help young people get a foothold in the housing market.

    His proposed plan contains three main items:

    • Renters would know a unit’s rental price history to bargain appropriately
    • Creating a federal legal aid fund to help renters right bad-faith evictions
    • Making credit bureaus take rent payments into account when calculating someone’s credit score, in an effort to help them qualify for a mortgage

    Trudeau made the announcement ahead of the 2024 federal budget from East Vancouver, the most expensive city in the country for renters.

     

    So. This is how desperate and useless he is.

    THis is a provincial matter and all provinces already have their own residential tenanacy boards and laws to protect renters, and they are extensive.

    knowing what the last guy paid is USELESS. 

    Creating a legal aid fund that landlords KNOW will be abused to attack them just  reduces the number of rental units out there. Only the largest cutthroat rental companies with big legal budgets will bother - more of the smaller investors which until recently made up the majority of renters will get out of that market and rents will go even higher.

    People are not failing to get a mortgage because their credit scores are bad - they can't get a mortgage because the cost of a downpayment and a mortgage is through the roof.  And I would bet that making your rent report any late payments to the credit bureau will hurt far more than it helps.

    I hope the ndp realizes what a disaster this is and smartens them up.

  4. 1 hour ago, Zeitgeist said:

    Exactly.  Canada was on a great trajectory before Trudeau’s Liberals took office.  We had surpluses, a strong dollar, rising incomes for working people… All our current government does is spend more taxpayer money or borrow more money at our expense so they can make funding announcements. Most of these spending programs are of dubious value.  I’m sick of this government using our money to control how we live and think.  Freedom and opportunity is about self-determination, not imposing endless state programs that are substandard and unwanted by many.

    All of our metrics have gone to hell.

    We had one of the best debt to gdp ratios out there even if you looked at total gov't debt not just federal - now it's in the crapper.  We had about 25 billion dollars  a year less in interest payments.  we had a higher gdp per capita.  We had a much lower cost of living to income ratio so people had more disposable income.  Business investment increased substantially during harper's time, it nosedived during trudeau which leads to our current productivity problems. Inflation was under control at 2  percent or lower.

    Not to mention crime was MUCH lower.

    Healthcare was better and the percent of healthcare covered by the feds was higher.

    Immigration was much more successful and we didn't have refugees living on the streets.

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  5. 3 hours ago, eyeball said:

    No one's forcing the customer to buy fresh food grown out of season when it's more expensive and emission intensive to do so.

    There is no season for those  mushrooms - they grow all year.

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    I know this makes you people go bonkers but the point of the exercise is to increase the cost of things that cause emissions.

    Like food?

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    Try buying mushrooms in season and drying or canning them for later.

    Can you show where they go up or down seasonally? They just go up - like all food for the last 4 years or so.

    But typical liberal  "let them eat cake" when the peasants start to complain about starving.

    Sigh. I suppose we're also buying milk out of season? What is 'in season' for cows?

  6. 1 hour ago, Queenmandy85 said:

    No, I am telling people to start campaigning.

    But you didn't - i asked why you didn't if that's how you feel.

    Typical leftist- refuse to answer even a simple question.

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    No matter how much people whine about the Grits, the election is still 18 months away. There is no point complaining.

    So you're saying that left wing parties don't believe in democracy or representing ALL the people when they're in power.  That they have every right to ignore canadians in between elections. They're elected and until the next election canadians should just shut up and do what they're told because the gov't doesn't listen to them.

    Pretty sad. Gee - hope you feel the same way when PP gets in with a strong majority - that the left should keep silent until the next election (might be a few actually).

    I don't think you understand how democracy or gov't works.

  7. 3 hours ago, eyeball said:

    I'll throw it away before giving it to either of Canada's right wing parties. I'm quite certain PP will win but I'll be voting with the hope of seeing him in a minority position. It's unlikely but it is what it is.

    Probably not this election.  Not likely the one after either.  POSSIBLY the one after that - but i wouldn't count on it.

    What you and your kind have done to canada is probably going to stick in the minds of people for quite a while.

    But sure - throw your vote away. That way nobody will have to pretend to listen to you to win your vote moving forward - you can just be ignored.

  8. 3 hours ago, eyeball said:

    Prove it.

    Did. That's what 'demonstrated' means :) 

    Or are you going with the Chretien 'proof' argument? "Da proof is da proof an wen yooo 'ave de proof den it's proved"?  - we' know you lefties have trouble understanding proofs ;)  

    In any case i did so -  your court now/   Prove i'm wrong. 

  9. 6 minutes ago, Army Guy said:

    Look if you want to make your vote count for anything then you have 2 choices, Liberals, who have more than proven they could not govern a simple picnic, or conservative a unknown for now.

     

    it's that simple.  And it's not just justin - the libs have been promising to fix climate change since the 90's and did nothing.  Signed kyoto - missed it, will be missing paris.

    Basically the libs have proven that they won't do a single thing

    Emissions went down under harper. PP says he'll address it.  we KNOW the liberals are lying so any sane person would look to the other party to see if they're better.

  10. 10 minutes ago, eyeball said:

    Probably not, especially for the wealthy. It would depend on how much your income tax is reduced or eliminated completely.

     

    Its more than enough. In fact we'll be pushing for boht consumption and income tax to go down. The wealthy pay way too much which is why they're leavnig, and the middle class is over taxes as well.

    If people like you like the gov't services those taxes paid for (like the cbc and 'exploring diversity in democracy' etc) then you can fund it out of your own pockets.

    People, especially the wealthy, pay FAR more than their fair share right now.  And as a result our quality of life is nosediving. Our medical and shelter situation is horrid.

    Until we manage to get the productivity back up and reduce that debt to gdp back to a sane number, i'm afraid the poor will have to fend for themselves.

    But i know you're fine with that - you've been told for decades this is what happens when there's overspending and too much immigration for us to digest.

  11. 17 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:

    No, what I expect is that those who believe the Liberals are harming the nation need to get thee to the campaign office

     

    Then why did you say:

     

    6 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

    You just need a little patience. The Canada 338 polling analysis puts Mr. Poilievre at about 210 seats. That is Diefenbaker / Mulroney territory. In 18 months, he will be appointed Prime Minister and his first act will be to eliminate the price on carbon.

    If anything you're telling people to sit idle.

    Tell you what.  we've seen what you and yours have done to the country when your kind was in charge. It's a disaster and stole the future of at least one generation.

    So maybe we won't be taking advice from you as to how to handle our affairs.

    Don't worry - we'll be kicking you out in about 18 months or less.  But we'll also think long term.  An entire generation is going to hate the libs and the dips for what's been done to them.

  12. 16 minutes ago, eyeball said:

    Rational like WasteCanMan you mean?

     

    Rational like rational.  But it's not a surprise you had to ask what that meant :)  

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    LMAO!

    Surrendering already.  Tsk tsk.

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    He sees what he wants too, just like you do.

    Are you talking to the voices in your head again?  I've told you, they're not your friends :)

    You're the only one here denying the facts. What i said was true and demonstrated. ANd you've looked it up by now and realized i'm right or you wouldn't be having a hissy. :) 

  13. 5 hours ago, herbie said:

    Guessing you're monstrously stupid.
    How many f*cking times do you need to hear that BC had a carbon tax long before Trudeau or Singh? Imposed by the BC (not ) Liberals!
     

    The ndp themselves ran on an "axe the tax" platform at one point.

    And unlike most fed/provincial parties who share similar names the ndp is actually joined at the hip federally and provincially and the provincial ndp really does have to follow the fed policy as well.

    However - the bc carbon tax is a straight up revenue tax - eby can't afford to get rid of it right now.  Dippers are a tax and spend party. It's starting to catch up to the economy tho. Is it any surprise the bc conservatives are surging in the polls?

  14. 6 hours ago, eyeball said:

    No, it's like Queenmandy says, the easiest part is now. Good luck with it when PP is in power.

    It's 200 - 300% in the case of chocolate.

    As for bananas...

    Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68534309

     

    So - bananas HAVEN"T gone up yet due to climate change - they only might.  Gotcha.

    Here's the carbon tax not affecting mushroom prices. I'm sure you caught this in the house.  And that farmer marks it up to the distributer who marks it up to the stores who then mark it up to the customer.

     

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  15. 44 minutes ago, Caswell Thomas said:

    There are such things as Signature Checks and Single Signer Loans...

    Not for bonds.

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    but only for good bank approved credit worthy people

    Not for anyone for 400 million.  Most bond companies cap out at 100. Whcih one do you know of that doesn't.

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    , you can tell Trump isn't thought of very highly as the interest rate on those is colossal, but no one loans money unless they have a surety of getting it back.  

    No, you can't.  All we can tell from your comments is a) you don't understand how this works,  b) you don't like trump, and c) you're prepared to be dishonest if it means you get to express trump in a negative light.

    Any loan on a bond would be unsecured. In short - if someone borrowed 400 million to post bond - there would be nothing stopping them legally from simply walking away and the bank would lose the money. What lending institution ANYWHERE would do that and take that kind of risk  no matter HOW good the person's credit was?

    Bail bond companies are set up to deal with this but they max out at 100 million because it's INSANE to see a bond higher than that. This was a  witch hunt. You think the judge didn't know that when he imposed the bond?

    Which is why it was lowered to a more sane amount.

    But yet again you show that you don't understand the legal system. Which would be fine - except you pretend you went to law school.

  16. 4 hours ago, Deluge said:

    1. They do? They believe the SC should be in the abortion business? 

    2. You mean we capture women, impregnate them, and then stick them in birthing dungeons? lol

    What do we do with them after they've had their babies? 

    3. Nope. You're in a rush to get to the killing. You don't give a shit about women's rights. 

     

     

    New york is in trouble in that respect actually.

    New York loses $1 trillion in Wall Street business as firms flee the city: report

    A giant, sucking sound is coming out of Wall Street — and it’s siphoning staggering sums of money out of the Big Apple while handing business to Florida and other states farther south.

    Nearly 160 Wall Street firms have moved their headquarters out of New York since the end of 2019, taking nearly $1 trillion — yes, that’s trillion with a “T” — in assets under management with them, according to data from 17,000 companies compiled by Bloomberg.

    That is a crap tonne of tax revenue to lose.  It's huge.  Massive. And it's not over.

    And it's not just the big boys -

    People who power small businesses are leaving N.Y. 

    And remember that was happening in 2023 - after the trump verdict  more left as was expected. Why  would you stay somewhere that weaponizes the court to go after people they don't like?

    Major investors pull business from New York City following Trump verdict

    New York is going to have a hell of a time raising taxes and coming up with jobs for it's people. It's quality of life is going to go down pretty hard. 

    They cut their budget a year or so ago because they were already in trouble and reduce services. So they're not in the red just yet. And it'll take a year or so for these companies to stop paying taxes in new york. So they'll have a year or two before it hits.

    But moving forward their tax  burden is going to get ugly.

     

  17. 20 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

    Hollywood is controlled by leftards. Not toeing the leftard line in Hollywood is a career killer. 

    Side note: it's ridiculous that you pretend to have gone through law school. You have the writing skills and demeanour of a drunken truck driver. 

    Remember - @Caswell Thomas  also claimed to have spent the better part of a couple of decades as an insurance expert who has given expert testimony in court many many many times.  (while also making statements that show he has little idea of how insurance works).

    He also helped craft nato policy for years. No exaggeration - these are his claims.

    Now law school.

    And with that background - his writing is elementary school level at best and it's improved - it used to be worse.

    And just to top it off - I had to spend TWO WHOLE PAGES expaining to this 'fine legal mind' that "CIVIL" fraud is not fraud and trump wasn't going to jail and had not been convicted of a crime.  Two freakin' pages.  For a 'law school' attendee.

    The guy is a liar or a bot - he refuses to say "i'm not a bot" which is actually a thing many ai's struggle with.  So who knows.

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  18. 2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

    Bottom line is that your topic title was false...like so many of your posts.

    Maybe your ability to read and pass on the actual newspaper heading is too advanced for you??

    Bottom line is it was accurate, and you're just bitter  about it.  I don't really know why.

    The banks want the inflation rate to be lowered by removing the reporting of shelter.  That is a true statement and what the article says.

    Thanks for playing.

  19. 3 hours ago, eyeball said:

    Bullshit.

    100 percent true, as i demonstrated. Conservative gov'ts in two prairie provinces and ontario were the first to specifically fund treatment and transition centers dedicated to transgender people. That's just history.

    It must just make your butt ache when your cheezy little preconceived notions get blown out of the water like that :) 

    But hey - maybe if you deny the facts again they'll change!

  20. 1 hour ago, Queenmandy85 said:

    All the whining about the price on carbon etc., is futile. You just need a little patience. The Canada 338 polling analysis puts Mr. Poilievre at about 210 seats. That is Diefenbaker / Mulroney territory. In 18 months, he will be appointed Prime Minister and his first act will be to eliminate the price on carbon. He will have to replace it with something else, but the point is, he will have a super majority and he will do what he deems appropriate. The talk of him blowing his lead does not take into account that to screw up that much takes a particular kind of talent. 

     

    So your theory is that if something is harming the nation we shouldn't complain, we should  just wait it out quietly.  That's the kind of people you figure we are.

    Yeash.

    Tell you what - if you don't like it then just shut up - it 18 months the left wing coalition will be thrown out and you won't have to listen to how terrible they are any more.  So stop whining.

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