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'Getting squeezed on both sides': Liberals a distant third among younger voters (www.ctvnews.ca)
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The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.

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[–] Nouveau_Burnswick 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tories want to build 1 million houses in three years.

NDP 500k in ten years.

Both short of the 3.5 million housing delta identified by CMHC.

I get it, this isn't an easy problem, but fuck if we haven't skipped to the "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas" phase.

Immediate repeal of single family zoning and parking minimums, replace building tax with land tax.

"But my provincal/municipal freedoms!" Fucking keep them. You don't have to implement any of the federal suggestions, you just don't get federal funding to roads or transit.

"Why do you want to kill the ~~American~~ Canadian dream of the single family house?" I don't. There is nothing stopping you from building a single family house, it just won't be illegal to build other houses/buildings/dwellings.

"I need parking minimums so I always have somewhere to park" good for you. Parking is a service, you you should start paying for it like people pay for every other fucking service. Business and homes are still allowed to build parking, they just aren't forced to.

"Land tax, what the fuck? I have lots of land" yeah, and that downtown parking lot shouldn't be paying next to zero on taxes, while it's subsidized by 1,000 people living on shoeboxes on the same footprint.

I'm sorry, this topic riles me up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that parking minimums, and the tax structure that means parking lots pay tax on their current "best use" value, not what they could be worth if they were used for something else like housing, are municipal and provincial. There may be a way for the feds to "outlaw" those practices, but it would be tricky to do legally. Otherwise, all they have is the occasional transit project $ carrot.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick 3 points 1 year ago

Yup

"But my provincal/municipal freedoms!" Fucking keep them. You don't have to implement any of the federal suggestions, you just don't get federal funding to roads or transit.

The fed spend ~15 Bn a year on infrastructure. I'm going to guess provinces and municipalities very much like slices of that pie.

I assume most municipalities (like more organizations) rely heavily on plagiarism of policy. If so, I'd suggest that a pre-prepared policy package would do well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank god somebody who finally has something to say other than hurr hurr small pp.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick 2 points 1 year ago

I can't help but wonder if his ridiculous appearance is designed to his his ridiculous policies.

At the risk of sounding defeatist, where got two parties feeding us shit; and we're debating if vanilla or chocolate flavoured shit is better, instead of upgrading to eating mud.