Again. The Liberals said they'd change it. That's more than any of the other parties have said they'd do.
The NDP talk a good game, but when they get elected provincially they never actually do it. And the Conservatives don't want it---ever.
For me, it's a minor victory that a party leading in the polls actually says it takes housing seriously!
Quite right.
But what I'm excited about is a major party actually saying that the govt can actually solve the housing crisis, a reference to when the govt did this in the past, and describes a practical way of doing it.
If we won't reward a party that actually comes up with a plan because we don't trust them, when is any party going to actually do it?
And don't forget, Trudeau actually did do some of the things he promised---like legalizing cannabis. And that was something that I heard nothing but hand-wringing about from other politicians my entire life!
Too bad the 'professional' reporters for the legacy news were too busy trolling for a 'gotcha' that they couldn't be bothered looking into the first realistic proposal for ending the housing crisis.
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I came to much the same idea about using world-building and stories to help people get around their delusions about the world. I wrote a couple novels that tried to explain a rational, sophisticated response to the particular craziness we see all around us right now. (Our lives seem to have become something like a William Gibson cyber-punk novel with James Bond movie villains.) Sales have been slow for Cult Smashers of the 21st Century! and The Climate Trials, but I'm still having fun.
I'm glad to see the Fediverse expanding, though. Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc, added to the Open Source movement give me hope that we can eventually create a society based on co-operation and intelligence instead of brute force and greed. The wisdom of age suggests, however, that if such a beast does come along it won't be because of some master plan by the likes of us but because it spontaneously arose through some unknown self-organizing principle. Just because the Dao follows its own path doesn't mean it won't eventually end up in a better place.
I'm not saying that this proposal will definitely solve the housing crisis. But this is the third housing bubble I've seen in my lifetime. If it bursts like the first two, then housing will drop in price. (I bought my home when the 2nd bubble burst.)
The problem all over the world with housing is enough stock hasn't been built for decades. And Carney's proposal is the first one I've ever seen that actually deals with this problem and on the scale needed. It also identifies two things: that Canada has faced this problem in the past and fixed it, and, there has been a problem with govts not being willing to act decisively and fast enough to really make a difference.