Dear generation screwed, if you were waiting for prices to drop before buying a house, the Liberal government is bailing out developers and bidding against you, so that you can be a renter instead.
If you cannot afford your mortgage renewal, Carney will not save you.
But if developers cannot sell overpriced condos, suddenly Ottawa finds billions.
That is not housing policy.
It is elite welfare paid for by working Canadians.
Why should taxpayers rescue bad business decisions?
Here is what should happen: the developers of these unwanted condos lower the price to what people are willing to pay.
The purchasers now have an affordable home, or a place they rent for cheap.
The developers lose money, sending the market signal that you shouldn't build that type of housing unless you can do it much cheaper.
The developers lose money. They might even go bankrupt. That sucks, but that is business.
Future developments are more suited to what people want and are willing to pay.
The taxpayer doesn't pay for any of it.
This is what the market is good at, and the government absolutely sucks at. Let the market do its job.
Yes, a cashier at CVS pharmacy, a delivery driver at amazon, or a waiter at KFC, should be able to afford rent, groceries, and bills with their paycheck alone. That is exactly what jobs are for.
Seriously, the emergency task force??
And riot officers, and court services vans??
WTH was he expecting? Cops to act like ICE?
His own J6!?
At a family picnic day?
There needs to be accountability for the cost of this and NOT from our taxes!!
this is going to target anyone critical of israel under the guise of tackling antisemitism which is actually going to do nothing to combat real antisemitism. but, hey, thanks for increasing the police state!
Renters trying to save for a downpayment are super excited to know they have to compete with government using their own tax dollars to buy the same condos.
So if you are a family that can’t afford your mortgage because of a job loss, you are forced to sell at the current market price
But if you are a developer that built product that no one wanted, you get a taxpayer funded bailout
The stupidity is amazing 🤦♂️
.@AnitaAnandMP has refused to meet with a single of my Canadian doctor colleagues who has been to Gaza.
When I and other health workers went to deliver a @docstopgenocide letter to her office, her staff locked the door and called the police.
Weapons made right here in our communities are going to kill our brothers and sisters in Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.
People of conscious will not rest until this stops.
She is breaking the law and she knows it.
No justice. No peace.
#EndTheGenocides
#ArmsEmbargoNow
Reminder that when PM Carney and other Canadian politicians talk about rising “antisemitism” in Canada they are not talking about rising hostility towards Jews. They are talking about rising hostility towards Israel, and rising opposition to its genocide of Palestinians.
They are talking about rising anti-Zionism.
Anti-Zionism is anti-racism, anti-apartheid, anti-genocide.
And that, in fact, is a wonderful thing.
We should really be celebrating as a nation if we have come this far to be able to say that anti-racism is rising in this country.
We need sanctions, and not just calling in the Israeli ambassador for a talk. Exactly what you said to the Al Jazeera journalist about having Israel investigate the airstrike that killed a Canadian in Lebanon. Israel is a perpetrator of genocide, and cannot be expected to “investigate” - rather countries like Canada need to put economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Israel to CEASE its violations of international law, and stop committing genocide in Gaza.
The way we killed NFTs by not using them or buying into the hype, I feel like we could've done the same with AI. But people are lazy. They don't want to learn new skills. And now AI is more common than it ever should've been and killing the planet at a fast rate.
I don’t think people understand that having savings is a PRIVILEGE. You have to be able to “afford” to save money. Most people are living check to check and you’re asking why they aren’t saving for a rainy day? It’s already pouring.
BTW, just in case it wasn't clear: the ASL remakes were not AI generated or anything like that. Just a ton of hard work from a dedicated team of artists and TDs who cared deeply about doing this properly. My wife was one of the TDs on this!
https://t.co/12dnQJ7D0O