• joshhsoj1902
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    1 year ago

    I struggle to even understand what people expect the federal government to do about house prices.

    This is a problem that lives 95% in the jurisdiction of the provences and their cities. The most the feds can do is the demand side tweaks like you mention.

    I haven’t seen any decent ideas from the conservatives on how they plan to address this either, like usual they just seem to be making noise to try to get people angry.

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      1 year ago

      I’m always surprised by the lack of imagination when folks bring up jurisdiction with respect to the housing crisis. The federal govt has an abundance of tools it can use to leverage pressure on the provinces. Even if we were to go by your rather narrow view of the issue, that the federal govt has yet to even begin to make noises about supply-side tweaks certainly suggests that it is simply not a priority for them, that they are comfortable with the seriously disturbing rise of unhoused Canadians and tent encampments in most major Canadian cities.

      Personally, I’m pretty shocked that things have progressed to where we are now, and, despite being quite left of centre, this is such an issue in my area that voting Liberal again is simply unimaginable. I’m certainly not proud to be forced into considering voting blue (orange is a much likelier option but i cant say I’m particularly pleased with them having tied their cart to the govt’s horse) but I simply can’t reward a govt for such inaction on such a fundamental issue.

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        Like you say the feds have leverage on the provinces, but in reality we just saw how long the provinces dragged their feet on childcare, and they’ve been dragging their feet on healthcare.

        I like to imagine that the feds have more influence, and if they wanted to spend all their political capital they might be able to force through a single issue like this (but take your pick on what that single issue is).

        You’re delusional if you think voting blue would make this situation any better, orange is a much better bet, but even better, vote red or orange at the provincial level or even better, vote in your municipal elections, both those levels have much more direct tools at solving this issue.

        At this point I’m convinced the federal conservatives and provincial conservatives are intentionally trying confuse voters by shifting the blame from the currently in power provincial conservative governments to the federal liberals, and it feels like it’s working 😞.