Hrmm, common sense. Where have I heard that before?
Common sense is the worst kind of sense. It presents solutions with little to no need for actual knowledge or logical thinking. It will keep your hand off a burning stove, but may well burn a country to the ground.
Problem is that society has a short term memory and only the thoughts and feelings a month before an election is all that matters.
Marketing and promotion is all that matters and which ever party has the most of it in the three months before an election will likely win that election. Which makes you realize that we live less and less in a democracy but in a weird plutocracy or oligarchy ... a system that runs on money and not the will of the people.
Up until about 20 years ago elections used to be positioned in WHO TO VOTE FOR and now they are more about WHO YOU SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR. The conservative marketing is not so much about what solutions they can offer ... they just continually make the broad statement that no one should vote for Liberals.
What a god awful 'plan' , if a municipality can't get housing permits out the door faster they'll lose federal money. So a failure to build* faster will see potholes linger, sewer systems forgo repair another year, and other critical maintenance tasks and improvements go down the drain.
But whatever, I guess I thought about the plan for too long, this is a 'common sense' plan and you just have to turn off your brain and roll with it.
*What am I even saying? Permits are not homes, nor workers to build them nor money to pay the workers. As if Canada is just loaded with idle developers and construction workers.
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