Canada is “selling” assets in the sense that we’re charging for access to resources that require large amounts of investment, research, and development. These aren’t all transactional, rather these can and should lead to deeper partnerships and long-term exchanges of technology.
The US-Israel-Iran conflict has no sign of ending. I suspect the Middle East will have to re-align behind Iran as the US seems to be experiencing institutional dementia. At this rate, the world will have to cope with the supply shocks from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for much longer than anyone would like.
Canada has the products the world needs to keep industry going. We can make these deals to fill the gap, and these deals will continue to keep Canada as a desirable place to live. We’re also a bulwark to basically the loss of Rule of Law to the United States.
The NDP are the captains of economic stupidity. The only thing Avi suggested was to build lots of non-market housing, as if that’s gonna solve all our problems.
How is the current system of house ownership working out for the vast majority of people.
Some people have no chance of ever owning anything, some people are underwater on houses that now have bigger mortgages than the house is worth, some people are still making due, and the upper groups of owners own so many properties that the prices will never go down unless the economy crashes and everyone loses.
Getting more people in coops and other non market housing is a good idea and I don’t see any actual ideas from the other parties that don’t just enrich those who already have too much.