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It's a good thing we're talking about Canada then.

Which province is that? The only province I can find with a tipped minimum wage is Quebec and both of their minimum wages are lower than anything you said.

Quebec is the only province that has a lower minimum wage for tipped workers at 80%. Everywhere else, a server at a sit-down restaurant you're expected to tip is making the same as a server at a fast food restaurant that you're not expected to tip.

I'm not for mass deportation, but if you're an immigrant yourself and you're calling for this I think you should set a good example and take off.

Back to work orders need to be paired with firing the entire leadership for failing to negotiate if it's a crown corp or government entity, or crippling fines if it's a private company. The way things have been going there's absolutely no incentive for an "essential service" employer to negotiate at all, let alone in good faith.

And in case there are any small time CEOs reading this, you could argue the status quo is unfair to any business that isn't massive enough for the government to step in.

Reading the list it looks like they just looked up Call of Duty and Battlefield and copied everything into alphabetical order. I wouldn't be surprised if the next round includes some fictional guns.

I don't admire leeching at all, I don't understand how me comparing landlords to murderers would give you that impression.

I will say I do know quite a few small time landlords and they are good people, but to try and say they're not leeching is disingenuous. In fact, I'd argue some of the big corporations are actually less of a drain on society because they generally build housing that wasn't already there. The worst are the large "mom + pop" landlords who own multiple properties but don't have the competence or will to take care of them. Slumlord behavior.

As much as that would be satisfying to the postal workers, I don't think it would really solve a whole lot.

I am completely against back to work legislation but I do assume that's where we're headed, I think the best case scenario there is that it's paired with the entire top level leadership being fired for letting it get to this point. General public gets their service back, cupw gets a deal sooner, and it makes the union membership at large confident that back to work legislation comes with consequences for the employer.

The way I understood his point was more like saying that serial killers are the best and most efficient murderers, and all other murderers just went good at their "job". It doesn't mean they're good for society, infact the better they are the worse it is for everyone else. But being a societal leech is inherently part of being a landlord and some are better at leeching than others.

Public unions are important. Every employer has to follow the laws, but one of those employers has the power to make those laws suit itself.

I'd hope this would make an impact in their reelection chances, but I don't think they were doing great with the union crowd to begin with and the Conservatives won't be very good on these issues either.

If these "richies" were actually investing their money in making the country better, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Right, but I guess my point is how would statscan know if a house has 1, 2, 3, or 4 units if they all share the same official address? Tax data? Driver's licence/service cards? And as for the census, how is it accurate if only one of the households in a multi unit house gets one?

Either way it's irrelevant to this discussion, because the article you linked didn't use statscan data:

Most data was curated from a select number of sources: Japan Statistical Yearbook, European Housing 2002, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canadian Home Builders Association, Infometrics, US Census.

We have rent control in BC (I think, unless I misunderstand), but I'd be willing to ease the restrictions a bit in exchange for vacancy control. I've only been in my current place for 4 years, but if I had to move (renoviction or personal use) I'd be looking at almost a 150% increase for something comparable. I know I'm not alone in that. I could handle a 10% increase per year if it meant I had the flexibility to move if I needed an upgrade or my landlord was simply being an ass.

If I spent 100% of my paycheques for the next 2 months on things that are temporarily tax free, the amount of money I'd save would be… less than my rent increase for the next year.

Edit: I forgot I have to still pay rent for those 2 months, so more like 8 months increased rent, or factoring in all the essential bills more like 6. When all's said and done the realistic GST savings might allow me to buy a large pizza and a dip at the end of February.

I'd be curious to find out if these stats take into account the prevalence of secondary (or even tertiary) suites, especially the unofficial ones. Officially the place I live in is a single family home, originally designed for a family of 4. My family of 3 lives in about 700sqft and there's another family of 4 living in about 1000sqft upstairs. Do the stats count us as 1 household? I've never been sent a census form to fill out, I don't have a legally distinct address or seperate utilities. I know many people in similar living arrangements, how are we counted in the statistics?

I don't see how this would make money laundering for organized crime any easier than it is today, the tax would just be shifted to the landlord side (likely at a higher rate since they're probably in a higher tax bracket) and off the tenant.

Right now the tenant earns money, pays income tax on that money, pays rent, and the landlord pays taxes on that money (if they're honest and report it all) but can claim their mortgage interest as a tax deduction.

I think the tenant should be able to claim some portion of their rent as a tax deduction. It would require an official record of rent paid, which would keep the landlord honest. I'd say the mortgage interest on a rental property probably shouldn't be tax deductible either, but even still this would have the biggest impact on those large private landlords that are often what you'd call slumlords.

Edit: I'm obviously not an expert on taxation or housing policy so if I'm wildly out of touch I'll accept that, I just think it's kind of bullshit that the government subsidizes the mortgages we pay for our landlords with the money we paid the government when we worked for it.

I think we need a rental tax credit. Whether it's partial or fully tax exempt, doesn't really matter. If every renter was reporting their rent payments on their taxes it would be impossible for landlords to dodge their own taxes, thereby shifting the tax burden where it belongs.

Isn't that the whole point of a "Team Canada approach"? All the provinces have their own needs and abilities, but we need some sort of coordination to make sure we're all aiming for the same goal. And while housing may not directly be their responsibility the feds should be there for the assist with whatever the provinces need but can't do themselves.

Do we manufacture the gold toilets, or just supply the gold?