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Ottawa considering buying hotels to house growing number of asylum seekers - The Globe and Mail (archive.ph)

So. We don't have enough homes for our own people. Many of our own people cannot afford rent or to stay somewhere decent. But now we're going to spend billions of dollars buying up hotels and using them to provide space for tens if not hundreds of thousands of refugees with our people's tax dollars while our own people struggle.

That seems pretty fair right?

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5 hours ago, CdnFox said:

That seems pretty fair right?

My wife has lived in Canada for a while, yet can still not understand the push for things like this.

IE free housing for those who struggle with their mental health. Free meals.

She works multiple jobs, and has side hustles to ensure we have sufficient cash flow for the investments we have in the Philippines. In her country, you don't hustle, you starve.

I try to explain to her: "but they have mental health issues", and am firmly rebuked on a: "and I don't?! I just don't have the luxury to feel sorry for myself, as I need to take care of my family".

To add insult to injury, I am taxed even more at the pump, to further benefit people like this, while my cost of living continues to rise sharply.

I knew a guy who felt entitled to these types of funds. Refused to get a job, as he felt that this was him "working for the man". Being a slave.

I don't think there is any greater slavery than to be a slave to what you can't afford.

To be dependent on your government, for survival.

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The amount of money the government has spent and is still spending for renting hotel rooms and suits is flabbergasting.

The scary thing is if they start to becoming hotel owners and operators there will be another horrendous bureaucracy.

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People often ask how PP will be able to reduce the deficit. 

Simply allowing fewer refugees in so that we dont' have to spend massive dollars to house and provide for them is an example of how costs can be cut without cutting services to Canadians at all. 

I'm all for helping people, but it should go without saying that we help our own people first.  Helping others have a home shouldn't come at the cost of putting our people on the street. 

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11 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

The amount of money the government has spent and is still spending for renting hotel rooms and suits is flabbergasting.

The scary thing is if they start to becoming hotel owners and operators there will be another horrendous bureaucracy.

we could just enforce the laws as they are written, these people arriving illegally could be turned around given back to the US...Call them a cab and send them on there way...they landed in the US first, which i don't mean to be a pri*k but thats their problem...or deport them, at their own expense....return to sender..

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We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.

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10 hours ago, CdnFox said:

People often ask how PP will be able to reduce the deficit. 

Simply allowing fewer refugees in so that we dont' have to spend massive dollars to house and provide for them is an example of how costs can be cut without cutting services to Canadians at all. 

I'm all for helping people, but it should go without saying that we help our own people first.  Helping others have a home shouldn't come at the cost of putting our people on the street. 

To be fair, buying hotels would create more rental spaces for Canadians and wouldn't make anyone homeless.  There would be cost, but the government would still own the hotels and so they always could be sold later, instead of just giving refugees money via welfare for rent.

"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain

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4 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:

To be fair, buying hotels would create more rental spaces for Canadians and wouldn't make anyone homeless.  There would be cost, but the government would still own the hotels and so they always could be sold later, instead of just giving refugees money via welfare for rent.

They're not going to stay in the hotels forever tho, they will be out and competing for rental spaces and homes in short order 

So our people will still have prices going up and higher taxes to pay for the hotels and still wont' be able to afford a home. 

Meanwhile that money could have gone to incentivize developers to build more permanent residences. 

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