Yes, I read that. And I pointed to a few things (trust me, there’s a laundry list of them) we could be doing before we reach that point.

Also, I feel it necessary to point out that there are a lot more billionaires in California alone than all of Canada, nevermind the rest of the US. Taxing your rich would have a whole lot more of an effect than taxing ours.

Did the BoC governor also say “the only tool the BoC has is a hammer”?

No, that was me. And it was a fact, not a criticism. The only thing the BoC can do is tweak the interest rate. You want more than that, that’s gonna have to come from the other BoC governor. You know, the one we elected.

Like I said, I admire your optimism.

And signing a 5-year fixed is almost always a good idea. Remember when Tif said rates would be low for a long time? I’d have absolutely signed fixed then. The odds are greater my financial situation improves in 5 years than in 1. I like knowing what I’ll be paying in October of next year. Variable means I don’t even know what I’m paying in January of next year.

I mean, Lewis would nationalize Canadian Tire if he could. That’s what activists do. They perform. And Lewis is performing. “capitalism is the problem,” he says, while wildly benefiting from capitalism.

Nationalizing Stelco wouldn’t save jobs any more than forcing Cleveland Cliffs to sell the company to a responsible owner would. What nationalizing Stelco would absolutely do is make it a political football. Of course Lewis wants to nationalize Stelco. He’ll never have to deal with the consequences. Activists don’t get elected.

Same headline, worded differently. Better?

Obligatory reminder that the EU has private health care and is not the USA.

I don’t think his high school education is the problem. I’ve known some pretty smart people who only had a high school education.

Now, I’ll point you to where the problem is. He says he wants to run the government like a business. Okay, valid. Now look at how he ran the last business he owned.

I experience less time waiting at a walk-in clinic than I do at the ER. But only because the walk-in clinic eventually closes.

I won’t go to a hospital unless I’m literally dying. Because unless you’re literally dying, every hospital I’ve been to as a patient makes you wait at least 6 hours. Fortunately I was personally very rarely a patient there, but being there for 6 hours while the person you’re with is trying to keep themselves upright isn’t fun either.

And the shitty transit. Uber appreciates my business, though.

We could probably also get the money by:

• Demanding the feds pay what they used to pay (50% of funding for this stuff used to come from the feds unti lthe 90’s)

• Not wasting the money on stupid shit, like a highway we don’t need, a tunnel we don’t need under an existing highway, or cancelling contracts early and resulting in penalties… just to name a few.

Not buying a private jet for the Premier probably wouldn’t hurt either.

Sadly, election reform can’t stop separatists from being separatists. And Alberta really only has two options at present.

Like I said. I admire your optimism. But I think you need to fact-check yourself. Microsoft owns at most 27% of OpenAI. And Microsoft is currently working on its own internal AI (MAI). Even in the unlikely event that OpenAI goes bankrupt, Microsoft and its own AI products will be just fine.

Passion is good. Direct it somewhere that changes things for you positively. That’s better.

It’s political suicide to run on a platform of reducing housing prices. People who vote are, disproportionately, homeowners who don’t want numbers to go down.

It’s never actually been done, so we don’t know that. Even Singh didn’t run on reducing housing prices last year.

The missing middle. We’re building the wrong kind of housing, and zoning bylaws are preventing unit densification where people want to live.

Speaking as someone who currently rents an apartment, if I can ever get to a point where I can own something, I sure as hell don’t want to own one. The only thing worse than renting your individual unit is owning your individual unit and fighting with the other individual owners about maintaining the common areas.

The lack of non-market-rate housing options. Affordable housing options have a disproportionate effect on housing costs. Canada hasn’t invested in, basically, any affordable housing since the 70s, and we have some of the lowest non-market-housing rates in the developed world.

And the non-market housing that does exist is in such disrepair that you couldn’t pay me to live in it. Because in this country, non-market housing means controlled by the government, and that’s a political football.

Housing being held as investments first, and housing second.

Which is why I said it’s a growth industry. They bought low. They’re not about to sell lower.

To be affordable, housing needs to drop 50%. Interest rates being low contribute, on the margin, but don’t account for that big of a difference. You’ll notice that housing prices barely dropped at all, and even continued to rise in some areas, when rates skyrocketed 4 years ago.

Canada’s population also skyrocketed 4 years ago, and only stopped skyrocketting (at least, as much) in the last year or so. There were two different demand levers being pulled. BoC pulled theirs to reduce, GoC pulled theirs to increase.

Might I suggest going for a walk, or seeing if you can get your hands on a punching bag? I get the need to release frustration, but put that energy into something positive for you. They’re too far out of the reach for anything negative from you.

And, like I said, work on making yourself less effected by what they do. If surviving the 2008 recession and whatever the hell the current economy is has taught me anything, it’s I should have started that second thing years ago.

I’m not saying he’s some monster. But, why shouldn’t plebs complain about some of the things PM is choosing to do?

If you’re complaining constructively, fine. If you’re complaining just to hear yourself talk, save your energy. And the way you’re complaining right now, you’re doing it just to hear yourself talk.

Poor, working class people didn’t get inspired by Singh. Most of the country doesn’t agree with a lot of the stuff BQ stands for.

Poor, working class people shouldn’t be getting inspired by politicians in the first place. I mean, unless you’re in a union, then maybe Avi’s your guy. And the BQ doesn’t give a shit about most of the country. You can only vote for them in Quebec.

PM’s got the majority now. He’ll do as he please and I’ll waste my time and energy bitchin about it.

Or, you can put your time and energy into making what he’s doing affect you less. I mean, you’re gonna do what you’re gonna do and that’s your choice, but one of those things is productive.

I mean… the ECB already raised at least once this year (September), and it’s looking like there could be a second in December. Where’s the revolution?

Everyone says that about the guy or girl who gets in if they didn’t vote for them. How many people said that about Wynne? McGuinty? Eves/Harris? Rae? That doesn’t actually say anything.

At least until 2030, as is tradition.