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First, Dipper Finance Minister Carole James trumpets the soft landing on her Twittmachine feed...
And then, first up on the comment thread, former GordCo, Inc. and ClarkWorld denizen, Marc Dalton, who is now a full-fledged member of Team Scheer, weighs in...
Now, I could be mistaken, but it appears that the good Mr. Dalton is saying that buying a home and real estate speculation should go hand-in-hand.
Hmmm...
When that kind of thinking, fueled by longterm government action and inaction (see, for example, the 'accomplishments' above the mentioned GordCo Inc. and ClarkWorld), becomes a full-throated reality, what could possibly go wrong?
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Hey!....In case you missed it, former Lotuslandian truth-to-power-journo-type guy Sean Holman (whose Public Eye Online archives just keep on giving, BTW), was on the MoCo's Sunday Edition this morning talking about how important it is for big Media to start treating global warning as an actual, you know...Crisis.
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3 comments:
Leaving aside Mr. Dalton’s apparent support for runaway inflation in the price of a home, it should be mentioned that the average home price growth levelled off in Canada generally in the 1990s, but the growth in BC was actually higher than in the rest of Canada. His idea that the BC NDP was responsible is pure fantasy at best.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ypnexthome/canadas-housing-performance_b_9266608.html
What isn’t fantasy is the fact that in the face of unprecedented skyrocketing housing prices the BC Liberals, as evidenced by the quotes in this article by Mike de Jong, at best ignored or at worst condoned the massive money-laundering contribution to the problem. A problem that Mr. Dalton is sad to see finally being addressed.
https://globalnews.ca/news/2531266/one-chart-shows-how-unprecedented-vancouvers-real-estate-situation-is/
Shame on him.
Yes Marc Dalton, let's keep housing unaffordable for normal people.
Lew--
Excellent point on the specifics re: housing price comparables.
Thanks.
And then there is the overall picture about the actually pretty good (i.e. better than GordCo, Inc.), but supposedly big, bad Dipper Days of the '90's.
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Hugh--
Especially young people.
Gosh.
I wonder if a young teacher could get anywhere near Mr. Dalton's townhome today?
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