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I don’t even care if he had copied Pollivres policy, governing is about doing what’s right for Canada before all else, including your own pride.

I want leadership who implement good ideas from all sides of aisle.

If Pollievre is more worried about pride than happy that Canadians are benefitting he has the wrong mentality.

Those are some important distinctions.

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Many of these things you’ve suggested have been tried in various parts of Canada, and while they feel good they haven’t been effective at lowering prices.

We need to build more homes. That’s it. That’s the thing we need to do. Build homes at a faster rate than we add potential new homeowners. Block nimby laws that prevent density and keep building until the prices go down.

Like markets? Enable the market to build em. Socialist? Have the government build em. Someone’s got to. If you want to focus on Airbnb and other feel good stuff fine I won’t stand in your way if we also just build more goddamn homes.

"Why won't the liberals deliberalize the economy?"

I generally agree with you, but there's some complexity.

Change all those things too quickly and housing plummets in value. That's great for buyers, but bad for sellers. Some old people have most of their life savings wrapped up in their houses, and some are even using reverse mortgages to make ends meet.

At the least though, they should tax those things, and ramp up the taxes so they're really painful. If an ultra-rich foreigner wants to own a house in Canada and is willing to pay huge taxes for that privilege, maybe that's OK because those taxes can be spent on housing solutions for everyone else.

It's not like higher tiers of government are necessarily less corrupt.

The idea I like is to tax NIMBYs. Have an auction where the "prize" is immunity from new housing for say 5 years, and the price is the property tax you pay. If you want to prevent the construction of denser housing in your neighbourhood, you need to outbid all the other neighbourhoods that also want to avoid it. Any neighbourhood that drops out of the auction pays no additional property tax.

That way right neighbourhoods of NIMBYs basically pay the rest of the city for the privilege of not having things built in their backyards.

Shouldn't it be a big tax on the sale of houses to multi-property owners? They're the ones to discourage, not the people reducing their real estate portfolio.

Yes, but making new homes cheaper and more in demand will increase demand for them and that’s where developers can increase supply

It's still a step in the right direction tho, eh? Of course, it needs other policies in addition to it like:

• MANY preapproved house designs to spend less time in bureaucracy. I think Carney's already doing that, right?
• Removing single family zoning. This comes under provincial/municipal governments from what I know. My municipality has already done this.
• The big tax thing you suggested. I would go ahead and say that there should be an outright ban on owning more than 2/3 properties by private individuals/corporations (this excluded non profit housing coops). But yeah, it'll be wildly unpopular. See how the carbon tax turned out.

They do say it's a no GST on "homes", which could theoretically include units in a condo. Maybe if the building costs multiple millions but your unit is under one million it would count?

It's better than the conservative plan, but it's not nearly enough to fix the whole thing. But, maybe it's good for votes because it's easy to understand.