Geoff Russ: Die Einwanderung hat die Erschwinglichkeit verschlechtert. Die Liberalen haben uns alle unter Druck gesetzt – Sie bestritten, dass ein rasches Bevölkerungswachstum irgendeine Auswirkung auf die Immobilienpreise hatte
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoff-russ-immigration-made-affordability-worse-liberals-gaslighted-us-all
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i’m 99 percent sure that not only did they gaslight us but they paid people to AstroTurf everything, especially reddit
either that or we have a very low iq suicidally empathetic populace
The gaslighting comes full force when elections happen it’s so obvious. This sub becomes liberal gaslighting heaven.
When housing starts have been at an all time low in Ontario since Doug Fraud has been in power doesn’t help.
I’m pretty sure allowing an economy to revolve around owning houses and being a „professional“ landlord has nothing to do with it.
I mean, even companies are now gaslighting about not having enough profit from those huge buildings if they don’t sell the apartments by absurd prices.
Well they either gaslighted us all or they are terrible at math. The latter could be true according to when Justin said he wasn’t good at math. Maybe the whole team was also bad at math? Probably right? lol
yeah and corporation owned single homes, and foreign owned homes sure don’t help.
I should also add that foreign owned homes that are only bought for profit/increasing costs for locals. If its bought to be lived in by said family, fair game, but if its just going to drive everything up.. no thanks.
Neo-liberal housing policies OF THE LAST 30 fucking years fucked the housing market, NOT the liberal party of Justin Trudeau. What an ignorant and racist fucking article.
This was only a Reddit phenomenon.
Who in their right mind didn’t know that record demand would cause issues on something like housing where responding to demand takes years.
Or how we’re told we have „labour shortages“ while Canadians struggle to find work.
Both skilled and unskilled professions across the board have been impacted. At this point what professions, other than maybe doctors, do we have true shortages that justify granting work permits and PR for?
When Canadians are unemployed in fields like tech and engineering does it make sense to bring more people working a job an unemployed Canadian could?
But they. could bring out paid experts to say it wasn’t
And yet there were the ones drinking the koolaid and believing it.
Housing prices have been on an insane run for more than 10 years. It’s been decades of housing prices doubling under PM’s and then choosing to let it keep going while wages were not keeping up with it.
Housing prices from 2001-2006 went up 70%, 80% under Harper, and another 85% under Trudeau. And I’m sure it was on the upward trend prior to all of that too.
While Immigration definitely played a part in the price of housing, let’s not pretend like housing wasn’t an issue prior, where everyone says we should go back to the Sam immigration levels. This was going to happen regardless of high immigration or not. Things like Covid and mass immigration just sped it up.
Housing, in my opinion, should not be a way to become rich, or live off of. Housing should be a right, it should be affordable, and should not be people’s retirement.
Why is it that if I lose money on the stock market, the government won’t make sure it stays afloat so I don’t, but housing we do just that? It an investment for a reason. With investing you knowingly take on risk.
The Harper cons started it all with deregulation of the home building industry, and to be sure, the sudden population growth added to the problem but the ball was already rolling. Profits are more important than people.
Nothing quite like a fuck Trudeau article a year after he’s out of office.
We had a political party that made their main issue to reduce immigration.
They were called racists and xenophobes and never got a single MP elected.
It didn’t. It was mostly foreign investors buying everything they could and realtors bullying people into offering above asking price.
>By isolating immigration-driven demand shocks, Monfared concludes that higher immigration was associated with rising monthly rentals, with bachelor apartments carrying the highest increases, as well as two-bedroom rentals.
I don’t know why anyone dared to argue otherwise. Housing is finite. Everyone needs a place to live. You invite in what amounts to 3% of the nation’s **in two years**, of course thats going to have an enormous impact on affordability.
I think a certain percentage of our population was groomed to believe that more immigration is **always** a good thing, so they were so reluctant to attribute anything negative to it.
Oh, should we have voted for the landlord?
Gaslighting indeed.
Edit: also, how can immigrants take all the Tim Horton jobs that don’t even pay enough to afford a house? How does that logic work. The high skilled ones we need could only afford them.
It’s almost like nobody took an economics class to learn about supply/demand.
Bullshit article.
Here’s the quote and you decide what they meant.
“Trudeau’s then-minister of immigration, Marc Miller, stated, “We have to get away from this notion that immigrants are the major cause of housing pressures and the increase in home prices.” “
The MAJOR reason why housing affordability took a nose dive is that interest rates increased.
The MAJOR reason why housing prices skyrocketed was due to investors trying to make a quick buck.
… they didn’t deny that immigration was a cause, just that it wasn’t the major reason.
Also the liberals tried to stop this, while the market kept speeding up, they implemented stress test and banned foreign investors trying to slow it down.
And do you know who wrote a ton of articles how those measures will be bad for the housing market and should be scrapped – the National and Financial Post…
Reddit bans me for saying Canada immigration policy is crap and we took in too many and too many from 1 country!! Lol
I don’t blame immigrants for wanting a better life. I completely blame all levels of government for doing nothing for the last 40 ish years and then continuing to do nothing while everyone lacks homes, jobs, a decent climate, health care, etc.
I completely blame the government for doing fuck all.
Insanity to me that even suggesting mass immigration would negatively affect housing prices, job availability, and wages for Canadians was immediately written off as a bigoted opinion 5 years ago, and now that we’re clearly seeing the consequences, everyone who was promoting that narrative is just in complete denial about their earlier position.
Not only housing prices but rental prices, loss of job opportunities, lower wages, etc.
One look at every Wendy’s, Tim Hortons, McDonalds tells you exactly everything wrong with immigration.
And the CBC absolutely backed them up. I don’t hate the CBC, they’re as good as they are and that good outweighs the bad.
But they absolutely serve as a propaganda mouth for the federal government on certain topics. Radio 1 is the absolute worst for this.
I’m sure snow washing did a lot too. https://transparencycanada.ca/news/snow-washing-and-the-vancouver-model-2017-in-canadian-corruption
And get re-elected.
CORPORATIONS did this, they lobbied for it and paid for it because the rich DO NOT CARE about people. This whole left vs right is exactly what they want, and youre falling for it. The actual fight is the wealthy vs ALL OF US. Open your eyes and your minds
Whatever. It’s clear Canadians want this since they voted for this government over and over again.
Buy a home or own one already. Prices will keep going up.
You have corporations like Tim Horton’s crying about not being able to operate without foreign workers while their franchise owners sell jobs to foreign nationals for upwards of $30k-$50k And the best part is Service Canada (ESDC) and IRCC approve positions for food counter attendants/kitchen helper and food supervisors because apparently they can’t find anyone to do these jobs.
It’s corruption from top to bottom, from the Liberals all the way to the employers and the foreign worker actively participating in this fraud.
And now many homeowners, that Trudeau made house rich, are complaining.
Get bent! You can’t have your cake and eat it as well.
The corporation and guys who sponsor LMIA should be held responsible and should be asked to pay 10 years of any kind of EI or other government assistance if they ask or want any additional new comer into the country.
Upping immigration rates means businesses (whose demands often drive immigration targets) can continue to suppress wages. Wage stagnation is the problem and corporations who want to continually up profits while contributing bugger all via taxation are a global blight!
Mass immigration was a Stephan Harper policy.