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  • CMHC funded housing for decades. Conservative and Liberal governments funded it, and it worked in tandem with provinces that had governments of all stripes. That ended in the austerity of the 80s and 90s that was implemented by Conservative and Liberal federal governments.

    Immigration increases economic activity far beyond its costs.

    That isn’t in question.

    The original article and CMHC piece describe a reduction in demand for rentals as one of the reasons prices have fallen slightly, and suggest that a reduction in immigration is the cause, thanks to where the reductions have happened.

    So racists have to lie about its economic effect, because using racism is very exposing.

    This isn’t a question of race. It’s a question of government policy, and the effect it has on people.

    Poor federal and provincial planning has triggered a polycrisis. By fixing the mistakes, hopefully we’ll be able to welcome more people. In many cases, immigration can provide a fix by bringing in people we need. (There’s a missing conversation about what that does to their home country and the quality of life Canada provides after they arrive, but let’s save that for later)

    But it’s hard to have conversations about potential fixes when mentions of immigration are greeted with accusations of racism.



  • Immigration is a policy. Noting the effect of the policy is not racist.

    The feds/provinces failed to factor population changes into policy, meaning we don’t have enough housing, medical professionals, teachers, classrooms, etc.

    The ideal scenario is that we build enough houses (possibly using the immigration system to invite more construction workers to become citizens of our country), train enough healthcare professionals (possibly by inviting existing professionals in, or training during foreign students who stay), and ensure workers that we invite into the country receive the same benefits Canadians do.
















  • Instead of simply encouraging the buildout of a private Canadian cloud, the government should invest in the expansion of a public cloud—built and run by a Crown corporation with public financing to serve government needs, but potentially to expand beyond that too. The government already has data centres of its own, but in recent decades it’s more often looked to the private sector to supply more of its computational needs instead of developing in-house capacities as it did with older forms of information technology.

    Ok, but they aren’t allowed to use consultants. We don’t need another ArriveCAN or Phoenix.