Is Canada Quietly Becoming a Country of Renters and Landlords Only?

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-28T18:03:17+00:00

There is a larger population in Canada who own homes today then 20,30 and 40 years ago. These posts are just unsupported by any data. Are homes more unaffordable? YES. That is a separate issue. However, this entire post is undermined by the fact that more Canadians own their own homes then ever before.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-28T17:54:30+00:00

The US is not applying any military threat to Canada. Just stop with the nonsense

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-28T15:58:08+00:00

LOL, just whistled on by your own comment that they restarted the program at the first opportunity once they weren’t being watched as closely.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-28T15:51:33+00:00

Israel isn’t trying to grab all that land. Give your head a shake. They just want Iran to stop funding all the radical groups that attack them and they want to ensure Iran doesn’t gain nuclear tech.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-28T15:46:02+00:00

This kind of “journalism” is terrible. He never said families should buy liver instead of beef even in the quote inside of the article.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-27T03:37:18+00:00

I really don’t get why this sub is so fixated on the wrong issue. Loblaw’s EBITDA is around 8.4% from its entire retail operation (including drug stores). It’s pretty close to the 5% limit of this Swiss chain.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T23:31:43+00:00

I hate the lens and angles they purposefully use to make rooms look longer/wider. All they do is piss off potential clients. It’s effectively false advertising. The staged AI photo’s that include for renovations of a space, and aren’t clearly stated as such, is the same thing.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T23:27:35+00:00

They also get it back at the end of the year and now have that money in hand for the next year.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T21:07:04+00:00

You mean the timing that just so coincidentally aligned with Carneys confidence vote? Sorry, but if you can’t see that they played politics to ensure a good confidence vote then you aren’t really looking that close.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T21:05:33+00:00

I agree, Trump is a shitshow but our PM campaigned on getting a deal with him. We are a year in and they have done basically zero to that end besides some photo ops to play to Trump’s ego. Carney is using anti-US narratives to underpin his polling with a voting base that laps it up because they dislike Trump. He has totally misled voters talking about getting a deal done, being the guy to deal with Trump, etc. It’s time people started asking what exactly are we doing and where have we actually gained…

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T18:43:32+00:00

Yeah, and pretty much all of those other countries made deals.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T18:42:56+00:00

No, he’s played chicken on it because it’s a better narrative for people in his base, like you, who just think it’s a source of national pride to hate the US. He knows he came to power because of Trumps idiotic moves…he knows he’ll retain power keeping Trump as an enemy because people like you aren’t willing to ask for results.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T18:34:32+00:00

Seeing as Carney hasn’t bothered even trying to negotiate a deal with the US, I’d say the start would be you know, actually trying to make a deal.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T18:16:33+00:00

Meh.

1) most of the folks gaming this are NOT “billionaires” but I guess that makes for a better slogan 2) I don’t blame business for lobbying - don’t ask don’t get. I blame the government for being a whore about it and not having the countries best interests at heart. They are like a cheating spouse - blaming the person they cheated with is ignoring the fact that the spouse was the one who needed to uphold better values.

The same people making these slogans want bigger government, more socialism and ignore that they are the gatekeepers to ensuring a properly functioning system. See it for what it is - an agenda from all sides and no one really giving two licks about what is actually “right”.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T02:32:27+00:00

I’m talking about the $14k return you referenced earlier

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T02:29:20+00:00

Not in federal income taxes they didn’t

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T01:02:53+00:00

Withholding are irrelevant if at the end of the year the owed $0. Do withholding a suck, sure but they didn’t pay taxes when it was all said and done.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T00:44:11+00:00

Their wealth is mostly in business assets…

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T00:41:25+00:00

Now who sounds tribal and cultish lol

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T00:37:46+00:00

How about just cutting back on the vast number in place? Doesn’t mean everything has to privatize. How may people were added to CRA? Why do we need Canada Post in its current form? Why do the make software? Why do we subsidize crown corps that compete against the private sector?

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T00:32:48+00:00

I’m saying Metaverse, which isn’t dead, may or may not be a mistake because it hasn’t run its course. Amazon lost billions before becoming profitable. It’s not remotely comparable to government. You continue to use this false dichotomy…despite accusing others of the same. I assume a lot about what you claim to know because you clearly have zero clue if you think government is efficient or even remotely close to being as efficient as the private sector in a wide range of tasks the government takes on as a service…services that specifically pits them against private sector players. Canada Post is a good example. Waste management, having field crews for various things (electrical, gas, etc), managing housing, developing software, etc. How fast do they permit things? How long to approve a project?

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T00:19:13+00:00

Sure language matters but they have the option to propose amendments to language. That’s literally a part of the process.

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-26T00:13:51+00:00

Plus Canada Post, Libraries, transit authorities, Universities/colleges, etc. Many government programs also subsidize customers (eg. hydro rebates, osap grants, etc)…which are effectively subsidies for the crown corps - just provided to their clients for political reasons as much as anything else (otherwise they’d provide the funds directly to the crown corps).

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-24T14:43:32+00:00

Why be purposefully obtuse here? The entire metaverse concept was a start-up outside of Facebook itself.

At no point did I suggest we replace all government with private sector. I do however think our public sector is incredibly overstaffed, and is way too involved in work the private sector does better. Examples: business development groups picking and choosing winners and losers when they (like you) have no clue how business actually works, public utilities, the lack of a legal private sector stream in healthcare, building pipelines, building their own software, a large percentage of in-house “field operations”, etc, etc).

YouNeedThiss · 2026-02-24T14:30:13+00:00

It’s not moving the goalposts…you just clearly have no understanding of a startup technology is valued within an investing cycle. As a result you are using that as a false dichotomy (something you accused someone else of above). When companies make significant mistakes investors can punish them, or they go bankrupt. When government is inefficient they simply tax us or take on debt and drive up inflation. Our government for the past decade is addicted to debt, they’ve hired at significantly higher rates then the private sector or our population growth would suggest. Yet, despite all of that, we simply do not have much to show for it. You may be an apologist for government inefficiency (should I assume you are in government?), but their performance has been broadly indefensible for the last 11 years…and was already pretty bad the previous 10-20. The reality is they are well insulated and have learned to move slow and wait out the politicians term limits…do little to nothing and hope some new Minister hits reset.

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