MyBrainHurts

I appreciate you being more courteous than I was.

Oh? Do you have a link handy? https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/most-canadians-support-building-a-cross-country-pipeline-reject-adopting-us-dollar-nanos-survey/

Flaw 1) If Carney wanted to get richer, there are easier says to go about it.

Flaw 2) Party discipline is a norm, not codified. So if Carney does get his slim majority, a bare handful of the new, very tenuous MPs could easily stop them.

Flaw 3) Public polling in Quebec has shown approvals etc for pipelines ever since trump 2.0.

Flaw 4) BC and other provinces would demand similar handouts, which would be obvious at the start of such a program.

Flaw 5) Most of our pipelines etc have some degree of private ownership, that's how we build things in Canada.

Flaw 6) Come on.

Thanks, I chortled.

More garage rock than metal/punk but the Pack AD is a lot of fun.

Terrifier 3 had me laughing harder in the theatre than I've ever done at a horror, so that probably wins for me.

Smile 2 was a pleasant surprise. I usually hate dream sequence horror moments as they feel like cheating but they work well with the themes/ideas of Smile 2 so I was less annoyed by them than usual.

If chatgpt is good enough for American foreign policy, it should be good enough for the law!

You've hit the nail on the head: it's hard to make housing more affordable without reducing the amount of money people charge for housing.

Or, like any other commodity where there's a market imbalance, you address supply issues and prices come down.

I'm sorry but "everyone gets a free house" isn't particularly realistic or interesting. It's like when people say the trick to ending war is "no more countries are allowed to go to war!" Cool that's nice but...

So glad trump has ended this conflict like all the Killer Kamala krowd predicted.

I think we're using realistic differently somehow. You seem to mean 'comprehensive' or faster? I mean it in the sense that this could happen and address the issue.

The link you shared is wild but while it has numbers, those are as real as Polievre's numbers to make his deficit projections work.

The stuff outlined is mostly hope and "I would like ot to be this way so it should be." Just some back of the envelope math, a fee years ago the value of Canadian residential real estate was some 7.5 trillion, just call it 7. Even a 10% drop in value means a roughly 700 billion loss. For the 40ish percent of Canadian households which own their home, the plan evaporates a large chunk of their retirement wealth. "Just teach people to be cool with it" isn't particularly realistic or feasible.

The lesson I thought we'd taken from our Southern neighbours was to watch out for anyone claiming simple problems to complex and significant problems.

Carney's plan is long term but actually looks to solve a similarly long term and serious problem, which is that housing starts have not kept pace with population growth. (All the talk of investors scooping up all the houses is a little silly, that works in a tight market but it's not like we didn't have industrial investors in the 90s when housing was affordable. Are people so ignorant they think capitalism just started in the last couple decades?) When part of your plan is to literally create a giant new government organization to do housing ina radically different way, only a very unserious person would put hard but ambitious numbers to it immediately.

Finally, Singapore is wildly different than Canada in a bunch of important ways, Denmark and Austria are doing social housing but suffer in actual housing

And then those changes in the rules are meant to spur developers

This was about the Canadian Housing accelerator fund. Though, also, yes, increased supply tends to lead to a reduction in prices.

I’m not saying that’s impossible, but it would require a concerted effort to build a huge number of units in a short period of time. No Canadian party has released a plan to do so.

I'd take another look at the Liberal's housing platform in detail.

https://liberal.ca/cstrong/build/#housing

Act as a developer to build affordable housing at scale, including on public lands. BCH will develop and manage projects and partner with builders for the construction phase of projects. Build faster, smarter, sustainable, more affordable homes by providing over $25 billion in financing to innovative prefabricated home builders in Canada, including those using Canadian technologies and resources like mass timber and softwood lumber. BCH will also issue bulk orders of units from manufacturers to create sustained demand. This will revitalize how we build homes in Canada, bringing forestry, innovation, engineering, manufacturing, and construction together. Support affordable homebuilders by injecting $10 billion in low-cost financing and capital for homes that support middle and low-income Canadians. This will include housing for students, seniors, Veterans, people with disabilities, and Indigenous housing, shelters, and more.

All of these are things that are government actually getting into the business rather than just handing money to developers while at the same time not miscasting the government as an actual construction company.

I struggle to think of a more ambitious but realistic plan released by any comparable party among any of our developed nation peers.

Oh, I mean the 2% so far. Which was because of a program that is not yet 2 years old, which in itself is based on cajoling municipalities to change their rules. And then those changes in the rules are meant to spur developers. It's a bit of a Rube Goldberg process but given the timelines/scales on which construction projects operate, makes sense. But expecting to see drastic results by now is a fairly nonsensical position and doesn't really give the impression that the author is particularly serious or has given the issue any actual thought.

I'm not sure on the timelines but it seems a much more comprehensive plan with an appropriate amount of funding to get us in a good place not for now but for long term so that housing grows and we can eventually up immigration to offset our aging population.