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Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
CANADIAN REAL ESTATE: THE ANATOMY OF AN 80-YEAR BUBBLE
History doesn't repeat itself exactly.
But human psychology has a remarkable tendency to repeat itself.
The accompanying Economic LongWave chart illustrates a theoretical trajectory of Canada's real estate supercycle from 1946 through a potential future debt-deflationary collapse.
It is not a prediction of exact prices or dates.
It is a historical framework built around the recurring psychology of financial manias, credit expansion, and eventual deleveraging.
Consider the four phases:
๐ 1946โ1980 | Stealth Phase
Postwar prosperity, suburbanization, household formation, and expanding access to mortgage credit established housing as an increasingly important household asset.
๐ 1980โ1996 | Awareness Phase
Financial liberalization, expanding mortgage markets, and changing credit conditions gradually transformed housing finance. The 1989 Toronto bubble and subsequent collapse provided an early warning of what excessive leverage and speculation could produce.
๐ฅ 1996โ2020 | Mania Phase
Declining interest rates, expanding household debt, increasingly generous financing, and speculative demand helped propel Canadian real estate valuations far beyond historical norms in several major markets.
Housing increasingly became more than shelter. It became a leveraged vehicle for accumulating wealth.
๐ 2020โ2022 | Blow-Off Phase
Emergency monetary stimulus, exceptionally low mortgage rates, pandemic-era demand, and speculative enthusiasm helped produce an extraordinary final acceleration.
By early 2022, Canadian housing prices reached their national peak.
Then the psychology began to change.
โ๏ธ 2022โ2026 | Denial and the Search for Normal
Prices declined, particularly in Ontario and British Columbia.
Yet expectations of renewed appreciation persisted.
Interest-rate cuts, immigration, housing shortages, and government intervention were repeatedly offered as reasons the previous boom would resume.
This is precisely what makes financial bubbles so fascinating.
Prices can change long before deeply held beliefs do.
The original bubble psychology model describes a progression from denial to a temporary recovery, followed potentially by fear, capitulation, and despair.
Our chart places Canada in this transitional period.
But the most consequential part of the theoretical trajectory may still lie ahead.
What history teaches us Irving Fisher explained how falling asset prices can weaken collateral, increase the real burden of debt, and produce self-reinforcing credit contractions.
Hyman Minsky showed how prolonged stability can encourage increasingly fragile financing arrangements.
And Schumpeter demonstrated how economic restructuring can destroy accumulated financial claims while opening opportunities for new productive investment.
Within Kondratieff's LongWave framework, these mechanisms may help explain the transition from an increasingly financialized Economic Autumn into a debt-deflationary Economic Winter.
The theoretical sequence is straightforward:
Credit expansion โ Asset inflation โ Speculation โ Peak valuations โ Denial โ Credit contraction โ Forced liquidation โ Capitulation โ Recovery.
Not every bubble follows this sequence precisely. Governments, banks, demographics, income growth, and credit conditions can alter its course.
Nor does the chart establish that Canadian housing must decline to a particular price level or that a nationwide banking crisis is inevitable.
Nevertheless, history offers an uncomfortable lesson:
The greatest financial damage frequently occurs after the speculative price peak, when declining collateral values collide with debts accumulated during the boom.
Canada's housing market peaked nationally in 2022.
The question today is not simply how far prices have already fallen.
It is whether Canada's extraordinarily leveraged housing and credit system can withstand a prolonged period of declining valuations without triggering a much broader deleveraging cycle.
The price peak may be behind us. The full economic consequences may not be.
And therein lies the central lesson of financial history:
Human beings repeatedly convince themselves that the prosperity created by expanding credit is permanent, only to discover that debt survives long after the valuations supporting it disappear.
Chart note: The historical phase boundaries are interpretive, and the post-2026 trajectory is a hypothetical scenario illustrating bubble psychology not a measured statistical forecast or a verified path back to historical fair value.