Poilievre promises to build more housing on Vancouver Island visit
Poilievre promises to build more housing on Vancouver Island visit
The leader of the federal Conservative Party of Canada has wrapped up a two-day tour of Vancouver Island, trying to swing votes in an NDP stronghold well ahead of any mandated election in October 2025.
Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.
The conservative parties that won in the UK didn't manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn't manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.
This crisis isn't caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It's caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.
You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It's impossible. That's literally just a pyramid scheme.
Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn't do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.
So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.
Problem is that society has a short term memory and only the thoughts and feelings a month before an election is all that matters.
Marketing and promotion is all that matters and which ever party has the most of it in the three months before an election will likely win that election. Which makes you realize that we live less and less in a democracy but in a weird plutocracy or oligarchy ... a system that runs on money and not the will of the people.
Up until about 20 years ago elections used to be positioned in WHO TO VOTE FOR and now they are more about WHO YOU SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR. The conservative marketing is not so much about what solutions they can offer ... they just continually make the broad statement that no one should vote for Liberals.
What a god awful 'plan' , if a municipality can't get housing permits out the door faster they'll lose federal money. So a failure to build* faster will see potholes linger, sewer systems forgo repair another year, and other critical maintenance tasks and improvements go down the drain.
But whatever, I guess I thought about the plan for too long, this is a 'common sense' plan and you just have to turn off your brain and roll with it.
*What am I even saying? Permits are not homes, nor workers to build them nor money to pay the workers. As if Canada is just loaded with idle developers and construction workers.
Hrmm, common sense. Where have I heard that before?
Common sense is the worst kind of sense. It presents solutions with little to no need for actual knowledge or logical thinking. It will keep your hand off a burning stove, but may well burn a country to the ground.