It really is sad that in the last 20 years under libs and conservatives the best things about Canada are slowly being whittled away. The compassionate egalitarian society is being torn to shreds.
Hello? The average income of this district is twice that of the province, and of the city. Half the residents live in the wealthy neighbourhoods in the district. This is our 1%. Inflation doesn’t impact them. Higher capital gains tax does. The other half are in apartment buildings along yonge in mid-town. Fashionable and desirable area. The north boundary of district is called “young and eligible”. Rising cost of homes impact their home ownership aspirations. Some of these apartment dwellers have swung to cons. Libs have fucked up big time.
Given the location of this voting district which straddles some very nice neighbourhoods (and some middle-class ones), I’m not surprised this turned conservative.
CBC has a MUCH BETTER article on this. This is just the conservative and PBO slant attempting to deflect a VERY SERIOUS error in their own report on economic impact of carbon pricing and carbon emissions.
TLDR: PBO issued a report (due to an “error”) that suggested carbon pricing has a negative economic impact than doing nothing. This error was discovered by third party experts and public critics only upon its release. The premise of “doing nothing” having lower economic costs is false because increased carbon emissions have economic costs, and Canada in breach of global carbon reduction agreements it signed up to has trade and economic costs. None of which PBO accounted for in its erroneous analysis. PBO further states that the government has its own analysis of carbon pricing but he doesn’t have the authority to release it.
This sounds to me like PBO is sabotaging the government on this policy issue, 1st by attempting to show that carbon pricing had negative economic impact, and 2nd by suggesting government is withholding its own analysis.
One reason an analyst explained to me is that modern farming has become capital intensive. It takes larger and larger farms to make things more profitable.
This started way back in the 2000s and has snow-balled the last 10 years. And it’s not just farmland. There are investment funds of the rich who are buying up forests and vast tracks of land around the globe as investment properties for long term holding.
Pulp and paper has been a dying industry. Any foreign investment is good. They don’t own the forests nor the land. There are low barriers to entry. If there is demand and higher margins someone can start up or invest more. This is one sector I wouldn’t worry about.
I don’t have a dog in this fight. I see wrongs being done by both sides in this decades-old war. The self-censorship I am seeing taking place at all kinds of institutions and organizations in the richest democracies is quite alarming. This is the kind of atmosphere people under authoritarian rules live in - speaking as someone who’s lived in those types of places. Not a democracy.
Yeah it’s not just Canada. It’s done in every industrialized country. They do this in Europe including Scandinavian countries where they import African labor for agriculture (for instance they bring in African pickers for blue berries, etc). Same in Japan and Korea I believe.
What kind of exploitative capitalism do we have in Canada? And how is this allowed? This is utterly ridiculous!
About time.
Yes when the grocery price increases are higher than inflation’s rate of increase. When profits of grocery chains are rising higher than rate of inflation in general, they are using inflation as an excuse to keep jacking up prices.
For some with limited choices, this would be a challenge. Living in a large metropolitan area, I am fortunate to have alternatives.
I am. There are alternatives and I can easily avoid them. Others may not be in the same position.
Honestly if the selfish arses don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes, they can leave and sell their houses!
When does the world have courage say enough is enough?
Oh no… that’s not the last. He’ll then cut taxes for the corporations and the rich. Cut healthcare and government services because he’ll say “we have to balance budget”. Then increase subsidies to corporations to “create jobs”. Conservative scam continues.
Lots of immigrants who go back to live and work back there.