I haven't heard any arguments that maintaining property values is a bottleneck preventing more buildings. How does that make sense?
I've heard that policies that crater home values can't be chased (ie increased taxes on selling property, or other tax disincentives for houses to be so expensive or a vehicle for investments) but even those proposals don't actually address the root problem of not enough homes.
Agreed, but that isn't what I'm talking about.
Literally none of the "build more houses" they've attempted so far has succeeded on provincial, municipal, or federal levels. We have significant bottlenecks that cannot be addressed in any short period of time, so limiting the incoming strain into the system WHILE also building more houses is the only realistic path.
But it's totally Musk's company, and he's super efficient, so his company is OBVIOUSLY sitting on millions of dollars of rebates from months of sales without collecting. That's peak efficiency.
I find it hard to believe that they had THIS much of a backlog. The article says only 1400 Canadian employees - thats a lot of money for a subsidiary that small, and means, on average, there was 7 backlogged cars for each employee.
Wood is much cheaper than concrete block, and is much faster to build with. A standard house wall, say 20ft long and 8 ft high (1 storey) would require approximately 20 2x6 and 4 sheets of plywood. Thats approximately $220 in materials at big box store prices (so much less for builders). In comparison, just the blocks for the cinder block wall (8"x16") are $900, plus mortar.
To cut studs, nail, raise the wall, and add plywood is a two man job for ~2-4hrs, assuming no windows or doors. That is easily a job for a few days if you use cinder blocks.
I'm surprised not to see anyone touch on it, but the 1% cut is ~$400/yr per person, and the 2.25% is ~$900 a year. That should be enough to offset the impact of the tariffs for the first little while, with more targeted help available still.
I'd like to see a balance of increasing tax rates on the upper brackets to balance the difference, but that might be a bit optimistic to hope for.
This came from Age of Empires, where priests could heal units by shaking incense/holy water over them, including ones that didn't make sense like trebuchets or seige rams.
Lmao, that's your response to not reading the article before commenting? Talk about clowns.....
Why does each candidate need to represent a riding? Have the ridings each have their own representative for local issues, and then have the extra MPs represent the country as a whole.
Stop making threats against Canada's sovereignty more clear for you?
Unfortunately it was planned long before. They started their trip I. january. Also bringing the sub over for us to look at as we're possibly buying some. https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/french-nuclear-submarine-visiting-halifax/
I agree- we need more midrise buildings throughout.
IMO Canada's problem isnt one of feasibility but of desire. By and large, people dont WANT midrise apartment buildings. The vast majority of people want the white picket fence dream in a subdivision and two cars. I think the govt needs to get back into building housing on both the federal and provincial level, not just leaving it up to the upper tier municipalities. The housing that IS built by those municipalities typically is exactly what you're requesting - less car centric, cheaper, midrise buildings. They just don't build enough of them. If we can make enough of those buildings by the govt (who can ignore the low profitability of those builds), maybe we can make them desirable enough that people change their mind about suburbia. At the very least, providing apartments meant for a full family would be a huge step forwards compared to the current offerings.