It’s innovative. It’s a great idea. A fantastic way to invest public money in housing. But it has to be done in conjuction with other measures that stimulates housing development.

LMAO @ “tech” company. They are trying to get higher valuation. I don’t see that happening.

His brother.

Honestly, his brain is smaller than I had previously thought. Who the F is electing this moron? Because I sure as heck didn’t.

It’s obvious markets are not efficient. There is NOT a single market in North America that is NOT regulated. So let’s throw out that “free market” bullshit. Free market existed in early days of industrialization. It didn’t work. If it did we’d still have slave labor and child labors working 7 days a week up to now. So what is needed is for governmentS - with an emphasis on S - the freakin provincial, municipal, and feds, to make it WORK. Housing is a necessity, not just a capitalist investment tool.

Dirty Alberta does it again.

It’s not automatic that provinces will follow the Feds. But the Feds have sticks and carrots to motivate provinces. It’s politics. What provincial government wants to be seen BLOCKING a federal program to create more housing? That’s one of the sticks - politics through the media.

Federal government has the means and responsiblity to persuade and cajole provinces in certain directions when it comes impacts of policies they are implementing. They could have foreseen the housing shortage or the unemployment or the depressed wages with the immigration, foreign workers and foreign student programs they are creating, because that’s what the hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats in various government agencies are for - to plan and study all the freakin impacts- but didn’t foresee it or chose to ignore it, having faith in the “markets” to solve needs of the economy. Alas, the “markets” are slow moving and not efficient at all.

Libs have been centrist and pro-business for sometime now. While other liberal governments had balanced policies between pro-business and social responsibilities, this liberal government seems to have exuberantly responded to business wants when it comes to labour needs. This is the mess we have here.

Yeah Quebec’s pension fund is backing them I think.

This party is going to take votes away from Liberals. It can only help the Cons.

Good good! Let the exodus to Lemmy begin!

I’m sure Albertans and Cons will blame Trudeau!

Chinese warships and ice breakers are passing through Canadian arctic waters regularly these days.

I’m just so damn proud of these players performing under these circumstances.

Oh Canada! I am saddened. Former Canadian men’s coach John Herdman’s who’s a mentor and former boss of Priestman also been accused of drone spying: https://www.tsn.ca/canadian-men-s-team-shown-video-of-honduran-practice-during-world-cup-qualifying-source-says-1.2154159

Yeah it is egregious. The original deal was already a sham because for giving up huge swaths of land they are only getting paid $4 per head per year for 1400 people. This is essentially a lease of $5,600 for 100,000 square kilometers of land. Which includes Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. These people were manipulated into giving up their land, and we can’t even honor the original scam.

Has Montreal’s cityscape changed much? haven’t been there in a few years.

That’s long overdue.

Good god. This is embarassing.