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@MorganBarrettX I hear he's not a big fan of Mondays.

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@jengerson @the_lineca @build_canada If Canada put half the amount of effort it puts into avoiding spending money into actually building stuff, we'd have more stuff and it would be cheaper.

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@VincentGeloso Wow. I wonder why people were so angry with the economic situation at the time. Maybe they had insufficient data.

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@RM_Transit No amount of zoning reform is going to make a developer build housing for customers that don't yet exist. That's what the construction subsidies are for.

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@VincentGeloso "Democracy is a dead-weight loss. Don't tax the gentry or they'll try to get their taxes lowered."
Very strange analysis!

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@RM_Transit Developers ONLY build profitable housing. Affordability or abundant supply is not important in this context.

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@RM_Transit Nobody will build a surplus of cheap housing in advance of an immigration surge. The surge has to cause prices to jump to spur more construction. Ergo, expensive housing.
The only way to avoid this is through construction subsidies. Govt can't let housing be scarce.

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@RM_Transit The land becomes more valuable when investors are given carte blanche to do whatever they want. That doesn't make housing more affordable.

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@matthewstoller Applaud the trillionaire.

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@BasedMikeLee

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@Sean_Speer Tech platforms get to promote and host all sorts of harms that are prohibitive for traditional companies. A newspaper that publishes fraud or defamation will get penalized by the courts. Not so with tech platforms. This is because of REGULATIONS favourable to tech platforms.

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@Afinetheorem Yeah, Canada has largely opted to let Silicon Valley regulate Canadian tech, with predictable results.
The idea that the internet is open and unregulated is bunk: it's regulated by a few giant foreign corporations.

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@RM_Transit It's all expensive without construction subsidies. Allowing laneway houses caused home prices to jump. The Great Zoning Crisis is a mirage.

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It's almost as if there's a small number of dominant dairy processors with a chokehold over the supply of dairy products, and supply management is a red herring.

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@stephenfgordon It doesn't but thanks for trying.

We can actually match US prices for the most part, without cutting farmstand pricing.

It can't be done though when small players are shut out from marketing direct to grocery stores.

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@Sean_Speer Canada's federal debt to GDP is lower than it was in 1999. Eurozone average national debt to GDP is lower than it was in 2012.
US federal debt to GDP has been growing without pause for 25 years.
Canada and Europe need to spend like the USA if they want to grow like the USA

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@Noahpinion

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@Noahpinion

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@TDotResident @EricDLombardi Canadian pension plans should not be allowed to invest outside of Canada. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing foreign investment.