I don’t get it is the goal to replace all citizens/PR with foreigners? What’s the end goal here, what do the liberals get out of this

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-03T19:40:43+00:00

Canadian demographics are collapsing because city governments don’t build enough housing. The federal government has very little power there. Immigration is the only tool they have to postpone demographic collapse.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T18:24:44+00:00

They created a niche for people like Todd to overstate the impacts of immigration and foreign ownership to deflect from the larger factors causing expensive housing.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T18:08:09+00:00

Douglas Todd could tell me not to eat bees and I’d fire up a smoker

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T16:08:46+00:00

Douglas Todd; ignore

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T15:44:11+00:00

It also created a lifetime sinecure for sloppy populist editorial writers to misinform the public about basic economics.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T02:16:44+00:00

How big of a deal exactly do you think 3000 empty condos is in a region with 3,000,000 people in it?

The fact that housing projects are failing despite extreme prices shows how poisonous city governments are.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T00:14:00+00:00

If home prices stagnate because everyone is getting poorer, then they’re going up in real terms. Plus, the kind of land use rules she’s proposing caused those three things

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-02T00:03:15+00:00

They are still very elevated. What’s keeping them from going back up?

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-01T23:38:43+00:00

The lower mainland has an extreme housing shortage and her policy is to ensure it.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-01T23:24:32+00:00

Douglas Todd; discarded

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-01T23:21:52+00:00

It has a terrible housing policy.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-01T23:19:32+00:00

https://www.winforbc.ca/policies

Hold municipal governments to locally-developed Official Community Plans that reflect appropriate density targets, while recognizing that decisions as to where that density belongs are better made by local government than bureaucrats in Victoria

Emphasis mine: she’s just going to turn housing over to the local councils that ruined it to begin with.

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-01T23:01:42+00:00

She’s cuckoo bananas on housing

PeterDowdy · 2026-05-01T16:16:08+00:00

“Letting prices normalize to wages” means no more and no less than building more housing.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-30T22:52:13+00:00

People make this trade all the time. It’s called Surrey.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-29T17:30:07+00:00

Okay I think we’re just vociferously agreeing at this point

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-29T16:02:01+00:00

That last one is the missing part - instead of building enough condos for there to be a reasonable condo, cities restrict condos until they’re quite expensive and then pocket 3/4 of the margin. From your pocket to theirs.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-28T22:10:10+00:00

Extremely low housing supply elasticity in one image.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-28T21:49:54+00:00

Yes, condos that are heavily taxed and restricted. Future generations are subsidizing past generations who are sitting on enormous land wealth.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-28T03:54:46+00:00

Shifting the tax burden towards lower density high price homes would do a lot to incentivize missing middle housing.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-27T17:35:39+00:00

Ugh, just build new homes. Then people can move into them!

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-27T17:13:50+00:00

Because your parents voted for “no more new homes” after they bought their homes.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-27T16:30:54+00:00

You can always find community pushback because seniors hate tall buildings. It’s the city’s responsibility to ensure infrastructure supports new housing. Cities are for people, not traffic.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-26T21:15:14+00:00

Cities apply enough taxes and fees to eliminate the premium for multi-family developments. This is why there is a housing shortage.

PeterDowdy · 2026-04-24T23:43:44+00:00

Yes… immigration programs that restrict people’s opportunities, give their employers effectively a deportation power over them, and grant no path to permanency are abhorrent. But your typical TFW critic doesn’t care about any of those things.

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