Prime Minister Mark Carney’s second federal budget allocates tens of billions of dollars in new spending to tackle what the government describes as the twin challenges of our time: improving affordability in an era of high prices and securing Canada’s sovereignty as it faces external threats.
The budget’s new big-ticket items include generous tax measures designed to prompt an “investment supercycle,” increased GST rebates to help with the cost of living, an $11.2-billion cash injection to tackle homelessness and one of the largest investments in Canadian arts, culture and identity in recent history to bolster national pride.
That won’t do anything for us either. You’ll accomplish changing what the classes look like, but you’ll still be on the bottom only you’ll have the government telling you what you need as though you’re a child.
We’re all bottoms now, Honey.
Would you prefer to stay there because the government says you should? Because that’s how you get that. Nationalizing everything, for example, includes housing. Do you want the government deciding you don’t need to live where you currently are, or someone else needs your house more than you do? Because that’s how you get that.
The market has already done exactly what you’re describing.
No, it hasn’t. I can choose to leave my current apartment and move somewhere else whenever I please. It will almost certainly cost me more, but that’s my choice. That is a far cry from being told “you will live here now”. Government housing does that second thing. Ask anyone who’s ever tried to get into the current government housing. You go where you’re told and you like it.