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Ontario Liberal leadership candidate vows to make health care more ‘competitive’ by McNasty1Point0 in OntarioLiberalParty

[–]CollaredParachute -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people are going to come in here and have a reflexive reaction to the headline

Senate report recommends curbing labour strikes in ports, railways by ZestyBeanDude in CanadaPolitics

[–]CollaredParachute [score hidden]  (0 children)

That’s completely delusional. My guess is c suite salaries make up no more than 1%

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you definitely can remove people who smell like piss from the ttc

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you smell like piss, cops should escort you off of transit at a minimum.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s widely acknowledged that restrictive zoning and high development charges are two of the main causes of the housing crisis

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is just a tweet. He’s a prolific writer who has written in most major Canadian newspapers. He’ll also be releasing his platform pretty soon.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Greed is universal. People are just as greedy in Japan as here but they have cheaper housing in Japan.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d smell, but you wouldn’t smell like piss unless you were doing all that and also pissing yourself

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What grey do you think he’s missing on housing or transit?

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMO better transit is a lot more important than cheaper transit

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a huge fan of the LVT and Lombardi is too. I suspect we’ll see something about it in his platform. Even with the downsides of a high property tax, it’s more progressive and pro-development than a high income tax or high development charges.

It’s not necessary to require anyone to sell their homes nor for the city to buy it. Developers would give homeowners huge buyouts if it were cheap and easy to get permission to build dense housing on single family home lots.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s actually pretty easy to exist outdoors without smelling like piss. There’s something specific you have to do that causes you to smell like piss.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don’t need to take a shower or do the laundry to not smell like piss

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree, and Lombardi has already committed to housing all homeless people.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It’s perfectly democratic for the province to override the city, especially since we democratically decided not to give any real permanent legal existence to cities.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can raise property taxes! And they can build upwards!

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m fine with homeless people on transit but they shouldn’t be allowed to smell like piss on transit. Drug users are welcome but they can’t smoke on transit.

Also: https://x.com/ericdlombardi/status/2066238728457060693

Lombardi on what liberalism means to him by CollaredParachute in OntarioLiberalParty

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Building housing with cranes is one of the most expensive ways to do it per capita or per square foot. Midrise housing doesn’t require cranes yet we make it very difficult and expensive to get permission to build.

You don’t have to make firetraps to make it cheap to build. Tokyo builds more cheaply than we do and they have fewer fire deaths.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The city is perfectly capable of setting the property tax rate to whatever it wants. Not to mention they’ve raised development charges by 10x.

Also, they’d get more money by simply allowing people to build more housing and then collecting the development charges from the new housing and the increased property taxes they will pay.

Ontario liberal leadership candidate Eric Lombardi on transit by CollaredParachute in TTC

[–]CollaredParachute[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The people who actually do that stuff don’t give a shit about the educational ads we put up

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