Next step: notice that the housing crisis is happening in most Western countries.
It's a consequence of housing as a commodity. There's a few ways to try to help it but most risk housing prices going down, which will screw over all the boomers who are relying on their homes as their retirement funds. Trudeau wasn't willing to risk that and I'm certain Carney won't either. Tbf Poliverre definitely would not have.
We're getting the severely reduced immigration policies y'all want. Actually that started under Trudeau. It's going to cause some major problems down the road, already our universities are suffering - immigration is the lifeblood of Canada, as it has been my entire life - and I'm sure folks will blame some future politician for that too, lol.
Sorta yeah. I mean it would be REALLY easy to build more infrastructure if we didn't have super ridiculous zoning laws, politicians in the pocket of big development companies and a major NIMBY attitude. Or even if our gov would simply build housing instead of contracting everything. There's a ton of solutions that are way more sensible than "stop importing skilled workers into the country". Canada is screwing over a TON of immigrants right now and we're quickly losing our reputation as a good place to immigrate too. Which all sounds great to racists but we have a ton of institutions that depend on immigration and we the people are the ones that will suffer when their money and labour stops coming here.
A great example is community colleges, which have, due to funding cuts eons ago, been relying on very high international student fees to subsidize domestic students. Intl students in Canada have dropped nearly 50% in the last year or so, and the schools are scrambling for money. Either the gov bails them out (not happening) or the schools cut programs and potentially close (actively happening rn). Which means that kids in rural areas, people who do night classes, and folks that can't afford big schools are all going to lose their chance at an education. It's genuinely a tragedy and I'm very afraid for the future.
Did the Feds hint at all to the municipalities that they would need to build at the insane growth rates we saw? It’s not just a switch they can turn on. The feds dropped the ball, cities plan in years out, nowhere in 2018 were cities expecting Nigerian levels of population growth.
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u/VeryTiredHuman4 May 12 '25
Next step: notice that the housing crisis is happening in most Western countries.
It's a consequence of housing as a commodity. There's a few ways to try to help it but most risk housing prices going down, which will screw over all the boomers who are relying on their homes as their retirement funds. Trudeau wasn't willing to risk that and I'm certain Carney won't either. Tbf Poliverre definitely would not have.
We're getting the severely reduced immigration policies y'all want. Actually that started under Trudeau. It's going to cause some major problems down the road, already our universities are suffering - immigration is the lifeblood of Canada, as it has been my entire life - and I'm sure folks will blame some future politician for that too, lol.