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by TimPC 812 days ago
Do the young even have someone to vote for in Canada though? Only the PPC wants to stop immigration and build housing but they are a fringe party unlikely to get a single seat rather than run the country. The BQ is a decent option in Quebec, but in the rest of Canada pretty much any party that has seats currently is far too pro-immigration and far too pro-Boomer to get anything done on house prices. PP is very good at talking about how the other parties are failing while offering no real solutions himself for example.
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bryanlarsen 812 days ago
Every party talks about lowering house prices, but the only government that has been successful at lowering prices has been David Eby's NDP government in BC.

So yes, the young have a great party to vote for.

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TimPC 811 days ago
Eby's NDP government boosted housing starts by 11%. Rental prices still went up in Vancouver and the surrounding area because an 11% increase is a pittance compared to the insane demand from current immigration policy. Assuming that's even possible nationally and that the Federal NDP will have similar policies (both of which are dubious assumptions), that's not going to be adequate to keep up with the insane surge in immigration all of the big three parties seem to be behind. The Liberals at least appear to be somewhat open to minor course corrections but the NDP has historically and is currently the most pro immigration party in the country and it's not possible to get market conditions to improve if you want the population to grow by 2,000,000 people a year.

You can't bring in enough people for 800,000 homes if you have historically built around 250,000 and the best government in the country manages an 11% increase without inflating rents and making the housing crisis worse. We need to radically slow the insane surge in demand so that building more housing has a chance to keep up. Canada has historically had 2.3 people per home so if we increase builds to 300,000/year we can support bringing in roughly 660,000 people with stable prices. If we bring in 2M everyone can guess what will happen.

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gspencley 812 days ago
I agree. And it will be interesting to see how the PPC performs (love them or hate them) because, as you said, the mainstream parties look an awful lot alike to people who are not firmly entrenched in a partisan position (i.e: many young people who are still figuring things out).
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