Pax @ Pax @lemmy.ca Posts 0Comments 22Joined 1 mo. ago
Honestly I think the Conservative Party should be dismantled - at this point their nothing but a waste of space. Their taking seats that could be taken by people who will do a much better job than any of the current conservative members. We need people who are passionate about Canada with who will work for the people. The conservatives are traitors
Really showing you their true colours
Maybe instead of trying to control landlords and other people’s properties they should just get together as tenants, pool their money together and build a cooperative. There are solutions - they just want a solution that cuts people who have achieved more than them.
Correction - they efficiently lost half a trillion dollars for the USA
What a crock of shit!
This is so unrealistic and the opinions of people who are gravely uneducated about the process of building housing. You can tell from listening to them that not one has ever built anything.
Housing might be a human right to an extent but the labour of others is not a human right.
I know the current sentiment is that landlords bad - whatever.
The one thing people seem to miss in this narrative is that yes a carpenter, electrician, plumber and so forth do contribute to building housing but the one thing they have in common is that they don’t work for free.
Then people forget that building materials don’t magically appear by wishing for them. It’s an entire of chain of thousands upon thousands of people working together to bring all the raw materials to production and transform them into the building materials you’ll use to build said housing. That requires effort, power, expensive machinery, and a lot of money because once again everyone down the chain doesn’t work for free.
People don’t want to pay exorbitant taxes to fund public housing either and it’s not feasible long term because housing has ongoing costs and if it’s public housing they have so many more rules and regulations to follow which brings the cost of maintenance up. The conservatives cut funding to public housing because it costs too much and we were in a big deficit at the time.
Developers don’t build housing without investors and here we are doing a full circle right back to landlords which are the investors that pay for all that labour and materials at market rate.
Why should anyone down the chain or landlords who have to make enough to cover all the expenses of maintenance (which isn’t cheap) take a pay cut so some entitled tenant can get housing that’s not for profit? Even if it wasn’t for profit rent would still go up because the labor, cost of materials, taxes, insurance and so many other services go up all the time.
When you’re a landlord, you’re actually a businessperson, not a charity or public housing. Landlords are supposed to be charging enough rent so that you can maintain the house so it is livable, and also to take care of house infrastructure that supports the ability of people to live there.
Most people aren’t low income earners they just want more of their money for themselves which is a fair desire but you can’t expect to live in downtown Toronto - have access to all the amenities of the best parts of the city at a dime, because a lot of people want access to that and are willing to pay for it. You pay for what you get. You want to save your money make some sacrifices, cook all your meals at home, get a roommate(s), go move to a small town where rent is cheap or shut up with your whining. It’s not a landlords problem if a tenant is financially illiterate, educate yourself and do the work.
Without landlords a lot of you would still be living with your parents if you’re unable to afford to buy. You aren’t entitled to someone’s lifelong labour and savings for free or access to their housing for free. Owning an income property is a business not a charity.
It’s not a private sector problem to solve public sector issues. You better be willing to pay a lot more taxes for more public housing. Either way you’re going to pay. Nothing is free <— period
Respectful and firm as he rolls over and licks trump’s boots.
I think it depends which province you’re in, I’m in Quebec and food is very cheap compared to in Alberta - went visiting family and I could not believe how expensive everything was and this was before trump was even president again.
He’s projecting how weak and how fast he would cave. As if they aren’t colluding to fool the part of the populace that’s stupid enough to believe this.
Probably a bunch of Russians or bots
Why don’t you go post on an American social media site instead
I might just do that thanks
No worries - I unsubscribed I’d rather have more Canadian related news.
Enough with news from the USA !!!
This is suppose to be a Canadian app why are we flooded with everything that’s happening in america? Fook off with this shite from down south they have enough platform to push they bullshit let this app be about what’s going on in Canada for Canadians. I’d rather even hear what’s going on in any other country than the USA It doesn’t say world news or USA news - it’s suppose to be news that relates to us living here in Canada!
You should dry your vegetables and press all the water out of them with a paper towel. And I mean you need to press them pretty hard and get the maximum amount of water out. You could par bake your crust if it’s still soggy even after drying your veggies. Another way is to make a cast iron pizza where you start the pizza for the first two minutes on the stove top while it’s in the cast iron pan and put it in the oven for the remainder of the time (15min at 500)
Hope this helps
Wages being diminished by immigration is a wild assumption based more on personal sentiment than reality. Immigrating to Canada is Not easy. And we need that population growth to sustain our quality of life.
We need the immigrants for their labour, because we have a shortage of qualified labour. More people working together is how you’ll get housing built faster.
They’ve done a lot for housing but this is a sector where results aren’t instant it takes time to build and if you don’t have a strong GDP - buying the materials and paying the labour you need cost more and the end results is it cost more for us too. The cost of building falls back on buyers and renters alike.
We’re not building nearly as much subsidized housing as we need but you can thank conservatives for that one.
Conservatives are the ones who cut public funding for subsidized housings that are more affordable and pushed it into the hands of the private sector, under Brian Mulroney leadership. And now the liberals are the baddies? The conservatives are the ones who failed poor people, by cutting subsidized housing in exchange for lower taxes and made it the private sectors problem to build housing. The private sector isn’t a charity they are for profit and rightfully so. Subsidized housing is a public sector responsibility.
Improvements have been made - where now rent can count towards your credit, boosting renters credit so they can have an easier time getting a mortgage in the future. https://www.equifax.ca/about-equifax/press-releases/-/intlpress/equifax-canada-and-frontlobby-complete-first-rental-tradeline-study
But even programs like this take time to implement just like it takes time to build that credit. People need to have more patience if they want things done right.
Even in countries like Japan where they have so little immigrants that it could almost be considered no immigration - employees there have taken pay cuts, even ceos to keep a company afloat. It suck and it’s not easy to find yourself in that situation but lashing out by pointing fingers isn’t the solution. A pay cut is better than cutting jobs.
What’s been accomplished is Not dwarfed by housing/rent prices. Just like you don’t enjoy the pay cuts no one else does. No one owes you their labour for free.
Start a spreadsheet and monitor your spending and set goals to accomplish. I grew up poor, my mother was a cleaning lady and my father was a waiter and they managed to succeed getting paid minimum wage! They made it work by being diligent of their spending and planning wisely.
A lot of poorer people I know today have a lot more than I ever had growing up so the world is improving. The difference is poor people today feel more entitled to what would have been considered luxuries when I was growing up.
You sound bitter and like you’re looking for any random person to blame over holding yourself accountable for your own shortcomings. People make bad decisions and there a lots of programs to help them but nobody is going to do the work for you.
And you still sound like a Russian agent trying to create division by putting blame on immigrants who didn’t cause the situation we are all in.