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disgusts me that all too many of my fellow Canadians have so little clue as to how the system works that they blame the Federal Government
What disgust me is that every time I criticize the Conservatives people think I blindly support the Liberals and every time I criticize the Liberals people accuse me of being a Conservative supporter as if there was only 2 parties in this country. For anyone wondering we’ve had more the two parties regularly since 1921.
Also you prove yourself wrong in your next paragraph.
… little clue as to how the system works that they blame the Federal Government
Just today we’re seeing the Premiere of Alberta attempting to halt some of the Federal Governments deals with the municipalities to enhance housing supplies — purely because if they let the Feds provide assistance they won’t have a cudgel to hold against them anymore. It’s you don’t do enough to help and we won’t let you!
It’s as if higher level of government can and do interfere with thing outside of their jurisdiction.
BC: Municipalities will be forced to allow more townhomes, multiplexes and laneway homes
The only policy solution to the current housing woes is more housing supply. And that’s ultimately in the hands of the Provinces.
There will never be a supply solution as long as 99% of housing is built only for profit. We don’t even have a taxation system the favors housing development over flipping houses.
Much of the tax system that favors using housing as a investment is from the federal level as well as the demand side. You get taxed more for building average dwelling then you would flipping a place.
At no point did I state it was entirely the federal governments fault, they’re the ones that said they would do something about it.
I don’t think anyone can say the current federal government has done anything but shrugged off responsibly for housing affordability even though they campaigned on it and thrown money at the problem.
In this instance they’re just getting Canadian to tie in even more of their future financial well being into their dwellings.
The federal government will allow 30-year amortization periods on insured mortgages for certain first-time homebuyers, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Thursday.
Freeland also said the government will nearly double to $60,000 the amount first-time home buyers can withdraw from RRSPs to buy a home. That’s up from $35,000, to take effect April 16, the day the federal budget is set to be released.
Funny thing. It seems you can be both a public servant and still take in that sweet contracting money. To top it off the guy was a PPC candidate, this government is so incompetent it doesn’t even embezzle properly.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dalian-enterprise-millions-government-contracts-1.7130206
Even if there is belief that the program was implemented with the best of intention, what Canadians seem to get out of it is a mangled mess and I wonder how much value we’re really getting.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-dental-insurance-program-phase-in-1.7054990
The government signed a $750-million contract with Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada to administer the claims. Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos previously announced a $15-million agreement with the company to lay the groundwork in September.
Just to point out in respective of at least “Loblaw” they own a lot more than just grocery stores and just using the profit margin is not a absolute indicator of how profitable they truly are.
Loblaw Companies>George Weston Limited>Wittington Investments, Limited
Report regarding grocery inflation.
We know very little of what is going on in food processing, transportation, and at other companies who participate in the food industry. A proper investigation led by the Competition Bureau of Canada would shed some light on practices in the industry.
This truly sounds pathetic. Although it clearly displays the real power hierarchy.
In February, the House of Commons’ committee that studies food prices urged Loblaw and Walmart to sign on to the grocery code of conduct, or risk having it made law. Both organizations have said they will not sign the code as currently drafted, saying it could raise prices for Canadians.
People have abused systems way more for less benefits.
I’m surprised more Liberals and Conservatives MP’s don’t abuse things more given that it seems to make little difference to them getting elected.
Given the circumstances I believe most people would do the same at least on a federal level.
Why rock the ship with any significant changes when the vast majority voters only seem to vote to 2 parties. No matter how terrible of a job you do you’re always at worst next in line for the job.
“They recognize that for every new affordable rental home that is built in their province, four more are lost to investors, to conversions, to demolition, and to rent increases,” Trudeau said.
An RBC report published earlier this month said that more than two-thirds, or 68 per cent, of Canadian households can’t afford to buy a home on earned income alone.
Critics, however, said the measure doesn’t address the key issues of insufficient housing supply and affordability, but it could hurt the credit scores of people who are struggling to pay their rent on time.
Putting more power in the hands hands of private companies and landlords is not a good idea. Good thing they aren’t actually required to do it.
An amendment to the Canadian Mortgage Charter would urge landlords, banks, credit bureaus and fintech companies to include rental reporting in a credit score.
Both of Canada’s official credit bureaus told CBC News that they welcomed the new government initiative. Credit Reports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
For anyone paying attention it’s very clear the current federal government only meaning of “affordable” is figuring different ways to get people to leverage more into housing.
There’s a lot of people saying it’s the corporations fault which isn’t exactly untrue and they do have significant sway politically with lobbying.
But it’s the people who keep bringing back politicians that clearly don’t want to lower housing prices because a segment of a population is to heavily invested into it. If anything the current tax system clearly incentivize people to invest into housing, imagine if we treated water like housing and people would buy up then vote for anyone that’ll make the prices go up.
Air Canada is a crap company and I’m sure they wouldn’t care who does the job as long as it’s cheap. But if anyone actually doesn’t want to stop companies critical to our infrastructure from outsourcing stuff like this they’re going to have to put proper regulations in place.
Transport Canada confirmed HAECO is a certified foreign maintenance organization.
Aircraft maintenance technicians in China earn just over $10 an hour, compared to triple that in Japan and Australia, according to a 2023 study of the aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry in Northeast Asia.
TouchBistro recommends restaurants respond to the changing trends by changing policies to emphasize the human connection.
The articles bizzarely focuses on restaurants leaning on tech as the problem. As someone who used to spend $1,500 a month on food the tech changes is no where near the top reasons why I almost stopped eating out these days.
One of examples is grabbing a beef fried rice in Vancouver 90% of places has soggy rice due to being cooked in to big of a batch, barely enough rice to fill you up and essentially what is less than a tea spoon of beef. This doesn’t even account for most places asking $20 for it now.
The article heavily leans on Ontario and what doesn’t work.
If anyone wondering how things are going for a province the adopted a payment system less focused on volume.
700 more family physicians in B.C. since payment revamp: doctors
The author view as portrayed in the title is rather bizzare. She also doesn’t justify it aside from her essentially day dreaming things would be that way.
As someone who grew up in rural Canada. It’s pretty clear that a significant amount of people would leave to seek better employment opportunities by the last few years of high school.
“It’s a real shock,” said Mr. Jobb, who worked as a reporter, an editor and a columnist at The Chronicle Herald for 20 years.
It really isn’t and this is at the very least a North American local news issue. Their advertising and subscription model hasn’t been viable for a decade now.
The NDP should really make it a larger part of their platform.
In case anyone forgot:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/634?view=party
LIBERAL
Yea: 39
Nay: 108
Paired: 0
CONSERVATIVE
Yea: 3
Nay: 112
Paired: 0
BLOC QUÉBÉCOIS
Yea: 30
Nay: 0
Paired: 0
NDP
Yea: 24
Nay: 0
Paired: 0
INDEPENDENT
Yea: 3
Nay: 0
Paired: 0
GREEN PARTY
Yea: 2
Nay: 0
Paired: 0
Per the article
Titanium dioxide is used to make foods look more appealing, especially brighter and whiter.
Since there was a good handful of circle jerk comments about this yesterday:
This is what they campaigned on every election and to point out the extremely obvious.
We’re multiple decades into substantial housing issues and in the year 2024 one year before the elections. The Liberals have a “goal” to have affordable housing by 2031.
While this is certainly better than there platform last year, they really don’t have a great record on spending money efficiently or even getting something decent for the money.
https://liberal.ca/budget2023/