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  • Canada’s immigration is controlled. You can’t literally just walk in and live here. You are against the current immigration targets that Canada has (well, had, recent news has the governing Liberals cutting those targets by 25%). I contend that your ire should be directed towards your provincial and the federal government’s housing strategy. It’s no secret that Doug Ford is in bed with exactly the private developers I have mentioned are not serving our society well. Why are we not adopting the Vienna housing model nationwide? The affordability issue is a solved problem where we are refusing to apply the solution because lining someone’s pockets is the first order of business for leadership.

    Adding workers adds value to our society. Our problem is that most of the value created is going to a select few at the top. Such problems as people like to complain about with regard to immigration would disappear if we did a better job redistributing that value back to the people who create it.


  • No. Being anti-immigration is misunderstanding how growth and economics work. “Jobs” are not a non-renewable resource that can be consumed and used up. Humans do consume economic activity, it’s true, but they also are the source of it. More people = more needs = more jobs. This is obvious if you think about it for two seconds. It’s why cities don’t collapse under their own weight after crossing some population threshold. It’s why there is far more economic activity and available jobs in cities than in podunk towns where that imagined non-renewable economic activity hasn’t been used up yet.

    Where there are issues in relation to population growth, ie housing, they are political issues related to how we develop infrastructure and housing. That is to say, our reliance on private developers and public private partnerships where things don’t get built unless someone gets to profit from it has not served us well. What we need is planning. Canada has plenty of space, no other country on Earth is as well suited as we are to bring in plenty of people. We could be building entirely new cities if we wanted, we have the room. What’s more, doing so could help us develop an internal economy that allows us to free ourselves from dependence on the American market, a dependence that has allowed them to turn us into what is essentially a resource colony.

    You should acquaint yourself with the Labour Theory of Value.









  • I’ve said this before, but coming up with no ideas of your own except to crack your whip at other people until they do something is bad McDonald’s manager level of leadership. Housing is an issue country wide, expecting municipalities to each individually come up with solutions for you instead of developing a country wide strategy is going to lead to extremely uneven results at best. Most likely it’s going to be a disaster everywhere because municipalities don’t have the power to deal with root causes like land speculation the way the federal and provincial governments do.

    I also would bet money that if municipalities start getting homes built in ways the Conservatives don’t like, like public housing, they will be punished for that as well.



  • The personal data of 2.9 billion people, which includes full names, former and complete addresses going back 30 years, Social Security Numbers, and more, was stolen from National Public Data by a cybercriminal group that goes by the name USDoD. The complaint goes on to explain that the hackers then tried to sell this huge collection of personal data on the dark web to the tune of $3.5 million. It’s worth noting that due to the sheer number of people affected, this data likely comes from both the U.S. and other countries around the world.

    What makes the way National Public Data did this more concerning is that the firm scraped personally identifiable information (PII) of billions of people from non-public sources. As a result, many of the people who are now involved in the class action lawsuit did not provide their data to the company willingly.

    What exactly makes this company so different from the hacking group that breached them? Why should they be treated differently?