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  • If they made it law during the pandemic to ensure workplaces that could work from home, were hereafter mandated to do so, then people could earn Canadian wages without clogging up Canadian streets but of course they had to fuck it up, the cockjobs that they are

  • Not so long as they allow him to rule like a dictator.

    Also, the suggestion that they got most big policies right is laughably false. Few governments on the planet have done more to prop up the fossil fuel industry than this one, even while our country literally burns from its effects. We continue to ship weapons supplies to genociders and have done sweet fuck all about the housing crisis.

    Being "not as shit as the Conservatives" is an unreasonably low bar and we can do better.

    • The federal government is somewhat powerless to force municipalities and provinces to build housing, that responsibility falls onto provincial and muncicipal governments. A big part of the problem is the federal government increased immigration significantly without ensuring the lower tiered governments had an adequate plan to house them. Our NIMBYISM and refusal to build anything but SFHs and only really pray that private developers will somehow solve this crisis is a big issue as well and one that has been happening for decades.

      • While I agree with you that the municipalities and provinces share a considerable amount of blame for the housing crisis, the suggestion that the federal government is somehow incapable of solving this problem is, I think, inaccurate.

        I live in the UK now, where the same excuses could have been made in the 50s: the national government has no business sticking its nose into the affairs of cities and internal countries (the UK is weird). But they did it anyway. The national government spent mountains of money and resources, building an economy around building homes. The state built those homes, millions of them across the country.

        Canada could do the same. Form a crown corporation that does nothing but builds high-density homes and sells or rents them at below-market rates to people in a given economic demographic. The "profit" in this model is a housing-secure nation full of happy, productive people. This, paired with an offer of big federal money exclusively for mass transit systems that connect these developments as well as a complete rollback of funding for road expansion, and Canada is well on its way to deflating the housing bubble and solving both the housing crisis and the environmental one.

        But they don't want that, because the people that fund them like it when people are desperate.

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