Oh well- Jagmeet Singh IS an NDPer- so "not well thought out" is something of a mantra with them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After all they ARE the party that lacks the low guile and cunning to be proper LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NDPers are the less intelligent cousins of LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the NDP HOUSING PLAN- isnt it sad that they dont have the brains to tell us HOW MANY PEOPLE will end up HOMELESS as a result of their mad spending and insane tax plans?????????????????????
We have only to look at how successful Bob Rae was at "saving Ontari-owe" with BORROWED MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or we could look at the LIE-beral/NDP style housing plans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider|:
Here is an article spewing the usual lunatic left wing propaganda about housing costs in Canada. With some comments of my own in brackets):
OPINION: All three major parties ignore real solutions to Ontario’s housing crunch
Special to Toronto Sun. Published: May 31, 2018. Updated: May 31, 2018 7:40 PM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
Related
Editorials
EDITORIAL: The bottom line is this pipeline must be built
Columnists
FUREY: Tariffs also about how Trump’s preparing for war
Reduce housing costs by increasing supply of units
BY JOSEF FILIPOWICZ AND STEVE LAFLEUR
With the Ontario election fast approaching, voters want robust discussion on important issues facing the province. Unfortunately, on the crucial issue of housing affordability, constructive proposals and meaningful debate have been lacking.
(Oh that IS FUNNY! LIE-berals and their less intelligent cousins of NDP have ALREADY HAD the debate- and ordinary people lost it! Taxes and govt debt incurred while LIE-berals were busy buying the votes of civil service union Hogs and assorted bigoted groups like Black Lives Matter and Idle No more are the driving force behind current fiscal woes!)
(Ontari-owe had grown disgusted with Wynne-bag LIE-berals and have thrown them out in favour of Doug Ford! But as a parting gift- LIE-berals signed FOUR YEAR CONTRACTS with their Hog allies! Since over 75 percent of the Ontari-owe budget is spent on Hog salaries, pensions and perks of office- this means that most of the Ontari-owe budget is COMMITTED to Hog gravy regardless of what we want or who is in charge!)
The situation, however, is clear. Home prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have risen almost 50% since the last provincial election in June 2014, despite a recent dip. While the rise in prices benefited many existing owners, the high prices have hurt anyone looking to enter the market.
(On the plus side- if you are a Hog- high housing prices have been a God send for our ever greedy LIE-beral govt thanks to those land transfer taxes that go up automatically along with house prices! More taxes equals more Gravy for Hogs- and they NEVER have enough!)
According to recent research by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), much of the increase in housing prices is due to a combination of strong demand and an inability of cities in the region to adequately respond with the construction of new housing units. Indeed, in the City of Toronto, new listings only stay on the market 16 days (on average) compared to 39 days in Calgary, for example.
(And WHY cannot cities build more housing? Might it be something to do with all the NIMBY Groups that city hall caters to? One has only to look back at the well heeled Toronto Moore Park residents who decided that putting up with commuter traffic in their little corner of heaven was not acceptable so they got Silly Hall politicians to CLOSE ROADS to through traffic and screw commuters! And things have gotten worse since then with ever more influential NIMBY`s multiplying like mushrooms after rain!)!
Similarly, the GTA-wide rental unit vacancy rate hovers around 1% compared to almost 3% in the greater Montreal area, where average rents are also much cheaper.
(It does nothing to allay the concerns of NIMBY`s that city hall so often moves drug addicts and crazy people into newly built or converted residential buildings! Nobody wants the crime, noise , garbage and discarded needles that come with too many low rent buildings! So NIMBY`s fight ever harder and city hall caves in!)
In short, the cost of buying or renting a home — especially in the GTA — is increasingly out of reach for many Ontarians — and again, this is largely due to a significant shortage of available homes.
(LIE-berals enjoy telling us that driving a car is a privilege- yet Cdns know better! Thanks to decades of neglect of our public transit we are increasingly FORCED to drive! Public transit is increasingly over crowded and often unreliable! If you miss too much work while standing on a transit platform waiting for a vehicle that is waiting for a tow truck- you may be replaced by your boss- who expected you tho show up regularly! Many bosses do not want an employee to walk a half mile from the nearest bus stop - arriving at work covered in sweat and ready to serve customers their food!)
(Bosses prefer employees who drive because they arrive looking neat and tidy regardless of heat waves or pouring rain! Then there is the simple time element- public transit is often TOO SLOW- thanks to our “just in time” warehouse system- bosses want employees to appear SWIFTLY when called in and transit will not cut it for those bosses!)
(Then add in the effect of clogged roads- they have not been expanded in 40 years either and it TAKES TIME top get anyplace! It is time we often do not have as we work ever longer hours and more erratic shifts! Not to mention that LIE-berals have helped us “save money” on our car insurance and Ontari-owe now pays the highest rates in all of Canada in spite of having the best drivers with least number of accidents! LIE-beral inaction on multiple fronts is forcing us to jam into already over crowded and costly cities!)
To be clear, all three major Ontario political parties have made promises about housing.
For example, both the governing Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives promise, if elected next month, to maintain last year’s expansion of rent control (a policy capping rent increases), while the New Democratic Party promises even more regulation of rents. This tri-partisan consensus is particularly disappointing given the nearly unanimous opposition to rent control among economists, who note that capping rent increases reduces the incentive to build new housing and forces landlords to cut corners on maintenance and improvements to existing rental units.
(Poor stupid economists- they have both feet in their mouths thanks to all the LIE-beral propaganda so many of them have supported! WE have been told often that our govt debts are manageable and yet we are also told our debt is crippling! Rent control is certainly damaging but so is the price gouging that comes when housing stocks are utterly inadequate to need- with NO socialist govt willing to shove NIMBY`s out if the way and let developers get to work! Part of the problem for govt is the need to supply assorted services- expanded sewage treatment plants, fore and police services and new roads- and much of that cost gets dumped onto existing tax payers who rightly resent paying for others! LIE-beral greed for gravy is so great it is crippling other parts of society!)
Instead of focusing on discredited policies such as rigid rental controls, the parties should propose credible plans to reduce housing costs in Ontario’s most expensive cities by increasing the supply of housing units to respond to growing demand. Otherwise, if supply can’t keep pace with demand, and rental vacancy rates remain below 1%, rents will go up.
(As we have already seen- LIE-beral hands are tied! There is some hope that a Conservative govt will take action on public transit in Toronto- but thanks to LIE-berals and their 4 year contracts with civil service union Hogs- over 75 percent of the Ontari-owe budget is locked into those 4 year contracts and cannot be altered by Ford!)
The same goes for would-be buyers, who face the inevitable bidding wars (and price increases) that result from too few units for too many bidders. If Ontario’s major parties want to get serious about tackling the cost of living in the GTA and beyond, they can look south of the border for ways to grow the housing supply.
(People would travel to and live in smaller communities where housing is cheaper- if there were any jobs! Sadly- other news articles illustrate that most areas outside of GTA are LOSING JOBS- not creating them! Only the GTA and close surrounding areas have recovered from the 2008 mortgage melt down! And of the jobs created in GTA- the majority have been for govt- meaning we pay for an ever growing herd of gravy grabbing Hogs out of static tax revenue!)
In Massachusetts, for example, the state government recently introduced zoning reform legislation, allowing for more flexible housing such as basement suites in communities that would otherwise forbid or restrict them. Similarly, there are ongoing efforts in California to pass a bill allowing increased density (rather than capped density) near rapid transit stations, encouraging the construction of new units where they’re most needed.
(Too late- we already have all the “flexible” housing in use! As for “increased density” -refer to the Ontari-owe NIMBY objections!)
In both cases, state governments aim to free-up urban land for additional homes. Needless to say, we’ve seen nothing like these smart supply-focused housing policies at Queen’s Park, from the Wynne government or its recent predecessors.
(Hogwash! Desperate LIE-berals have no intention of confronting powerful Nimby groups! LIE-berals are in enough trouble trying to sort out the hordes of illegals that need housing! And LIE-berals at any level of govt have NO PLAN! Besides- LIE-berals are to busy trying to ram safe injection sites down our throats- along with the crime, discarded needles and filth such sites generate!)
By continuing to ignore the supply side of the housing equation, Ontario’s three major parties can only guarantee more of the same on the housing front — high prices and low vacancies. Ontarians deserve better.
(Ontari-owe Conservatives DO have a plan for housing! They plan top build more pubic transit so we can travel a little easier from less jam packed areas to our jobs and they plan to derail the LIE-beral gravy train so people will have enough money in their pockets to solve their own problems without ongoing massive and costly LIE-beral interference!)
— Josef Filipowicz and Steve Lafleur are senior policy analysts at the Fraser Institute.
(Fraser Institute has an annoying tendency to focus only on one problem- while ignoring other obvious and related influences on that problem! As an example- economist Sheila Block told us -a couple years b ack as LIE-berals began lying about the size of their deficits- that our Ontari-owe LIE-beral debts ARE MANAGEABLE -as long as interest rates stay low and as long as no new economic shocks come along to upset the ship of state! And of course interest rates ARE RISING- albeit slowly! And we are now dealing with the Trump trade war that Our idiot Boy Justin has triggered by refusing to take our national security issues seriously- so we now are facing the economic shock that Block did not see coming!)
(LIE-beral/Socialist management of our economy has been a SH+T SHOW of loathsome proportions!)