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Canada is not the US's hat. The US is Canada's pants.
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You'd think the second largest nation on earth would have enough space to build a few more homes to drive down the cost of housing, but you'd be wrong apparently
If you bring down the cost of housing, then the value of investment properties must naturally decrease, and this is counter to neoliberalism. Unfortunately this means we must all live in the woods that are we banned from entering due to rampant wildfires, because our housing minister has promised not to undermine property values.
Nevertheless, Carney has assured us that "he brings the type of experience that we need to tackle some of the aspects of this problem." (Ignore that his experience is presiding over Vancouver as its housing skyrocketed to the highest costs in the nation). I can only assume that the "aspects of this problem" that Carney was talking about were the houseless people themselves, and that their plan is to physically tackle them.
I begrudgingly will give Canada some defense: most of the country is already concentrated in a few corridors and I would be more than happy if they didn’t do a second manifest destiny to the arctic.