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If that's really true then what do you mean by this? Amongst other things this primarily means zoning regulations It also means things like relaxing or getting rid of building standards, property line setbacks, environmental protection etc etc etc. You figure there's another little cheat for this? Its not governments that are the issue here, it's people, voters and taxpayers you need to get out of the way, they are who are interfering and adding years to the process. And now Doug is saying no to zoning changes. He's turning years into decades.

Maybe you just fainted in disbelief when doing your homework. You might want to sit down before clicking this wealth-tax polling In any case it looks like someone in Ottawa still has their heads screwed on right. By Voting Against a Wealth Tax, Canada’s Politicians Have Shown Who They Really Work For BY CHRISTO AIVALIS The vast majority of Canadians support a wealth tax, but 90 percent of the country’s MPs recently voted against a proposal to establish one. When push comes to shove, Canadian politicians are just as much in thrall to the rich as their US counterparts. https://jacobin.com/2020/12/canada-new-democratic-party-tax-the-rich

They're simply the old Deplorables which was a badge of honour amongst chuds not that long ago. They even have merch. https://www.amazon.com/proud-be-deplorable/s?k=proud+to+be+deplorable

A majority of Canadians think the Trudeau government is spending ‘too much,’ poll finds Meanwhile... When Canadians were polled on the prospect of a wealth tax on the one per cent back in 2021, it garnered almost 90 per cent support nationwide, including 82 per cent from Conservative voters. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/22/opinion/canada-needs-wealth-tax#:~:text=When Canadians were polled on,per cent from Conservative voters. In a very real way these polls indicate Canadians might agree that the government is not collecting enough taxes to meet society's needs. I wonder if PP would have the courage to pose such a question in the context of income disparity in the face of our national debt? Maybe PP could make it easier to swallow a wealth tax on the 1% by promising to cut funding for things the other 99% need. How could any self-respecting Conservative voter ever say no to that? That said when people are actually faced with the piteous situation the 1% find themselves in it could be too much for even moderate Conservatives to accept anything less than tax-cuts for everyone...and especially the 1%.

Like Wokism? Maybe we should call it porkism. It seems pretty versatile... We are the Pork, resistance is futile. May the Pork be with you.

Zoning is merely the first step and you won't get much if anything solved until you take it. You seem to think it can be sidestepped because you're either dreaming or because I pointed it out months ago and you've invested too much emotional capital in the issue to admit you still don't have a clue what you're faced with or even talking about. Go tell it to Doug. A handful of people thought/hoped it would be a magical cheat around having to deal with zoning issues in the urban areas adjacent to greenbelt areas. They handled it so badly that it set public trust back even farther. The land-use planning scandal that has rocked Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has revealed how the province utilized all manner of regulatory tools to force more housing on cities and towns – removing land from the protected area known as the Greenbelt, expanding urban boundaries and issuing special decrees known as minister’s zoning orders. But a Globe and Mail analysis has uncovered a fourth, less discussed mechanism: The Ford government imposed two dozen policy changes on the city of Hamilton and the regions of Halton, Peel and York by rewriting their official plans – documents that guide what gets built and where. It altered local planning decisions by, among other things, making lands zoned for commercial use available for housing and foisting greater height limits on residential buildings, documents show. When compared with the 7,400 hectares of farmland the province unilaterally added to the urban boundaries of the four municipalities, the policy changes seem modest. But regional councils opposed them, largely because of their outsized negative impact on local communities. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ford-government-greenbelt-policies/#:~:text=The land-use,on local communities. Sure kid. Like I've said to our forum's vaccine and climate change experts you should approach the powers that be with your housing issue expertise and prescriptions for progress. Get your name put on schools, cul de sacs and boulevards - heck I bet even Doug Ford will throw his panties in your direction.

I think there'll always be an expectation that Canadians should still do the responsible thing when a more collective approach is called for, as in the case of any other emergency. I think COVID made it clear that a sense of their shared responsibility is what Canadians abandoned. Given the power of hindsight perhaps we can come up with better ways of checking all the misinformation that compels so many people to mistrust their governments - we already know that misinformation about vaccines and alternative 'remedies' led to thousands of deaths and hospitalizations not to mention the billions of dollars that cost. But of course better transparency and accountability is something we should always be working on constantly. I think it's clear as day that if we don't address public mistrust and another even deadlier event happens sooner rather than later that it'll make COVID look like it was only a bad flu that killed a few old farts. I still get the sense some people think COVID was an opportunity lost and that we should have let it rip.

Yes I know. Some of us are years ahead of you if you're just getting around to dealing with zoning and density in your region/municipality now. We managed to get here via consensus but it looks like it'll need to be forced or enticed in a lot of other places. Sure, good luck with that and let us know how that works out, especially in Ontario, we saw how cheating worked out there and now Ford is courting the Nimbys.

We started years and years ago. It took that long just to change the zoning and amend our community plan. Enough of the the older nimbys finally died off too thankfully.

Works for me.

I had jab # 7 yesterday. I feel just fine, not even a sore arm.

Aside from partisans with a grudge no one seems very happy with the choices on tap. I think that goes here in Canada too.

Why is saving Ukraine contingent on closing the border with Mexico? That what I don't understand.

Been there done that. Got cancelled as a capitalist - hating commie for suggesting we tie trade to human rights. You think suggesting we tie trade to climate change action will garner me any new friends? Not. The bulk of the problem is right-wing conservatism - which will damn you if you don't then damn you when you do.

LOL!

No idea at all. I've been boarded and inspected at sea on occassion, in addition to electronic monitoring (when fishing) and human observers (when offloading). Then there are steamship inspections, topside and bottom, crewing and equipment certification...we're kept pretty honest these days, that's fine so long as the boats are working and we can keep up with the cost of it all...boat doesn't mean bring-on-another-thousand for nothing. As for prosecutions...there was a woman fined for paddle-boarding to close to some killer whales hereabouts one day.

No, it means the same thing as your LOL.

Fibre-glass. Albion hull, a gill-netter converted to a crabber that I used for aqua-culture. Tipping fees for materials that the landfill could accept were the biggest expense. Then recycled fuel and hydraulic tanks, diesel engine old parts etc. some metals. Uncontaminated metal was taken for free. I forgot to mention another couple thousand for labour. I hired a young go-getter handyman guy I know and outfitted him with a sawsall. Now he lives in his trailer where the boat was parked. He gets cheap rent and I get a handyman. We've all heard of micro plastics. The next big thing will be micro glass - microscopic shards of glass that slough off fibreglass boats, especially when they're abandoned on beaches. These literally slice up microorganisms that ingest them from the inside out and they persist a long time. They're millions of fibre glass boats around the world.

No you clearly misunderstood my post. Its you guys the left is 'controlling' if you can even call it that. All anyone has to do is push a social button or flip an economic switch and..."Look at you go!" It's not so much that right-wingers are under control you're way more out of control - of yourselves mostly.

LMAO at you people like I did last time.

Yes I have, even in the harbour with DFO going by. You've never heard of bilge socks or other measures to deal with oily bilges? We have planes with equipment that can detect a pumped bilge in the middle of the night out here now. Ever written proposals and secured funding for public pump-out stations that can deal with sewage holding tanks as well as bilge water? I have but no one wanted to spring for the bilge-water side of the proposals. As it was local authorities even balked at the sewage pump-outs out of fear people would clandestinely use them to pump their bilges into. So far I'm not aware of any being used inappropriately. In the meantime are you trying to say your shit doesn't stink? What do you do with your old boats by the way? Mine's been cut into pieces and properly disposed of at the landfill and recycling depots. Cost me about 3 grand. There's 20 other boats just like it on beaches hereabouts. It didn't cost a dime to dispose of them...yet. Some estimates place the cost at well over a million. Now I'm thinking of writing a proposal for our local harbour authority that boats come with a legally binding disposal plan for when their owners are done with them. I'm counting on a lot of push back. Maybe even death-threats.

All of a sudden? Governments and activists have been using every opportunity under the sun to control us for years and years now or so we're told. As a lefty however I just don't feel the control. That said it seems its never been easier to make right-wingers jump 10 feet in the air over something. It's just you folks that are being controlled. You aren't surrounding a circus you're the synchronized dolphins at Sea World.

So its working. Soon you'll invest in a EV and then you'll be crying more loudly about pronouns or land claims or something woke. There'll always be something.

Nothing, nothing at all. Please just keep your mouth shut. Thanks in advance.

I'll never forget watching some right-wing politician in the US standing up to a microphone to address a crowd. He took off his mask and the look of disdain as he threw it aside was all the crowd needed to roar it's approval. Canadians took things more seriously and we died and got sick at half the rate as Americans as a result. So there was much that happened in response that was also bang on.