Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him

Environment & development law & policy. The Hands off the Greenbelt guy. Brown loyalist🍁🗳️. Tweets aren't advice or statements from my client. he/him

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

How is Ontario spending more on a single sprawl highway through the Greenbelt than the Government of Canada is spending on a housing plan it claims will eliminate homelessness NATIONWIDE within 10 years?

What's going on, here?

[Finance Canada @FinanceCanada]

#Budget2026 creates the conditions for Canada’s next chapter:

📈Attracting new investment and helping Canadian businesses grow

🏠Addressing housing needs at all stages

💰 Making life more affordable for Canadians

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay My worries about/aversion to MAiD as it *actually exists* comes from my left/progressive values set. There's absolutely nothing in the current legal state of affairs re: assisted dying (referred to as MAid) that any libertarian could possibly object to.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay I'm getting the impression that you just don't know what MAiD actually is, or what actual paliative care practices are, and that if you did know, you'd find I have a more negative/restrictive attitude than you have.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay I also want a law that imposes a positive obligation on the state to provide whatever material support (personal care, devices) or paliative treatment (e.g., drugs) that a person who qualifies for MAiD says would make staying alive tolerable.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay I personally oppose any proactive "MAiD policies" beyond the bare minimum exceptions to the ban on euthenasia legally required to avoid unreasonably violating patients' Charter-protected personal liberty.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

Cancel the 413. We can't afford to waste $18 billion in public money on subsidizing mcmansion sprawl developments.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay Do you not understand that empathy with others is ultimate basis of right vs wrong?

The moral compulsion to help other people stay alive (and to refrain from killing other people) is an automatic outgrowth of those people's WISH/DECISION to remain alive.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@LastOfThePagan @USDesiMom @Sturgeons_Law Who do you think you're kidding, buddy. As long as caste concrete enough to be used in marital discrimination (and even be a filter on marital platforms) it's concrete enough to be used a potential basis for workplace, housing, education, service discrimination.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@kyomizuko @Michael56297223 @MikePMoffatt It's obvious from your timeline that your veneer of concern for affordability/liveability is just a fig leaf for racism. Let's skip some steps. Here's /ha population density map of that area from 1971, when <1% of Torontonians were of South Asian ethnicities.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@USDesiMom @Sturgeons_Law @LastOfThePagan It seems entirely reasonable ensure that the prohibition on discrimination based on ancestry, race, etc. includes discrimination based on caste.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@LastOfThePagan @Sturgeons_Law Part of multiculturalism and progressivism is (1) not accepting the any internal authorities to "define" faith labels (2) Recognizing that any assertion re: appropriate hierarchy, social separation, etc. is POLITICAL and thus fair game for criticism.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@Sturgeons_Law yep.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@Bilaru2 It would be such an awesome thing if young university-educated woman from social conservative families can get immigration to Canada while their brothers can't. Think of how that would affect power dynamics, free them from parental control

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@Bilaru2 Nah. I think we should EXPLICITLY adopt a feminist immigration policy with affirmative action within each job class. At least ~half the engineers, physicians, diagnostic techs, electricians, pilots. Give social conservative families economic incentives to let daughters emigrate.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@Michael56297223 @kyomizuko @MikePMoffatt lol. How small do you think a hectare is?

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@Bilaru2 Lol. I must be the embodiment of everything they hate and fear. A nerdy left-wing south-asian-Canadian guy with immigrant parents married (with 3 kids) to an "old stock" french/scandinavian-Canadian person I met in an undergrad human rights class.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@GeoffRuss3 A feminist immigration policy, which gives priority to women in economic class immigration, would be a great idea. Our communities would benefit from an influx of feminist engineers, diagnosic technologists, physicians relocating away from socially-conservative governments.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@GeoffRuss3 Anti-woke governments failing to apply gender-based affirmative action to favour women immigrants. Gender based affirmative action is entirely permissible, constitutionally: s. 15(1) protects gender equality and s. 15(2) explicitly allows for affirmative action.

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[John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) @Harryslaststand]

Now; he'd just get a gig on LBC or GB news.