I agree with a lot of that. But that said, immigration was just as high in the 1950's and 60's and house prices didn't jump because houses were being built in vast #'s each year - which is the theme of Carney's most recent ad BTW.
Not it was not, the 1950s marked the post-war births. Look at the stats, the 1950s had the highest birth rates (hence the name baby boomers), about 3.5 kids per family. Do not forget this was one of the most economically prosperous times between 1945 to 1973 (the oil crisis). If you look at the birth rates, they dropped significantly in the 70s.
www150.statcan.gc.ca
^^^^ Here is the graph.
Without high immigration, the population will age and the economy collapse because our domestic birth rate is below replacement rate.
We need some, but not at the rate the Trudeau government did. He also moved away from the point based system to bringing anyone in. He brought in so many asylum seekers, low wage workers. Asylum seekers are the worst type of immigrants. They tax our system a lot because the government is giving them so many social benefits and taxpayers got to foot the bill. Asylum seekers in the 60s did not get all these social benefits, they had to work. Are these really the type of people that will make Canada better? Seems a way to increase the GDP. And economy for who? The rich corporations and the top 1%? Another reality is that people are living much longer compared to 100 years ago.
The idea that anyone was engaged in a conspiracy to force up housing prices is silly. No one's interested in doing that.
Not a conspiracy at all. Trudeau even admitted publicly to doing that.
In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Justin Trudeau said he wants to push affordability while maintaining current home values. Some experts say that's hard to do.
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^^^^^ Here he said it here. The government benefits a lot from this because they make more money and collect more taxes. They are obsessed with never ending GDP increase. Later tonight I will expose Carney's plan. He plans to use Brookfield Properties to build lots of homes in a company that he has millions of dollars in shares.
And there's no indication that Pee - a guy whose whole focus politically is a far right ideological agenda - is going to help ordinary people. The guy voted against every social assistance measure put before him in the last 20 years and was a Harper cabinet minister. He's not there to help ordinary people. If he was, Canadians would be voting for him.
Well thanks to Poilievre everyone is enjoying a 20 cents cut in gas prices. How much you save on a full tank? A regular car with a 60 liter tank will save you $12 and that adds up, think of how much commercial vehicles save? A pickup truck with a 140 liter tank gets a $28 savings. Not to mention all the other produce will also see price decreases. Remember the Trudeau / Carney Liberals claim that adding a tax can change the weather when it is was in fact a revenue collection scheme. One of the reasons the economy was so prosperous in the 1950s was because energy was cheap. Cheap energy creates economically prosperous times and much higher productivity. You say that Poilievre is focused on far-right ideologu, but you seem to be okay with far-left ideology.