Nah people would find the next thing to hate each other over easily. Skin, language, clothing, it does not matter. We always find a way to separate them from us.
Do trucks with PR cause more accidents than citizens? Do you have a source for your accusation here, or are you just making it up?
I give a fuck. Why have immigrants at all if we aren't benefitting from them. We picked him ahead of others for a reason, who's to say the person we replace him with won't be worse?
It reminds me of something I learned. A good boss doesn't fire someone for making an accidental costly mistake, the damage is done, you may as well keep the person who has learned the lesson really well because they're less likely to do it again than a new person.
For most types of crimes, I'd agree. This one just doesn't make sense though, there was no intention or malice behind it. It was an accident because he wasn't paying enough attention, the particular intersection was shit for sightlines, and he lacked the education and experience to handle it.
Other immigrants are not going to look at the deportation and go "I'm going to pay more attention while driving a semi-truck in rural areas" because of the deportation rather than the 8 years in jail and massive guilt of killing people.
I still don't agree with this. What benefit to Canada by sending him back? It's not like he's going to re-offend.
His wife will be forced to abandon Canada after getting her citizenship to stay with him.
He committed a crime and he served his time. Let him resume his life. Maybe he can add something positive back to Canada however small it will be in comparison to our loss.
It's not the parties that are the issue, it's the people.
If we want affordable housing, we need to absolutely tank home values, by as much as 80-90% in some markets.
Most people simply won't vote for a party or a policy that does that, because most people (and especially most voters) own their home and aren't willing to give away literally hundreds of thousands (or in some case millions) of dollars even if it helps other people.
I wonder how many years of Cons in power it's going to take before people who switched to vote for them realize that the Cons won't do jack shit about the affordability crisis either.
I've done the complete opposite, we upgraded and bought an excessively large house 4 years ago.
The plan is to have our three kids continue living here upon finishing school and contributing to the household budget through at least part of their adulthood so they don't need to worry about extreme housing costs. There is enough space (and separation) for them to even all have partners living here with them, especially if we build a small accessory dwelling unit in the extra land we have.
Given how much we paid for it, and how much we've paid off, even if they're contributing only for the equivalent of a room rental (and they get more like a suite each) it would allow us to pay off the remaining mortgage very quickly and then we could even drop their cost more.
It hurts us now by costing an extra $2000 per month, but in terms of an investment in the children's future it's going to end up saving them each probably $1500 or more per month compared to a starter unit when they'd normally want to move out.
If they do eventually move out, we can downsize. If they don't, we can just stay a multi-generation house (which is actually what our house was built as) and why it's so big in the first place.
It was 60% in the 90s, when houses were last affordable (3x household income)
I disagree that the market will crater(though that depends on your definition of crater); even Japan which went through this same situation decades ago never even saw prices drop in half from their crazy high peak in the 90s. They're only down about 25%, but they did get as low as around 45%. While those may seem like very good numbers, it wouldn't even come close to making things affordable (3x household income)
Between population growth, and many of those boomers dying and leaving the properties to their kids, there just isn't a way for the whole thing to crater. It may drop a bit, but most likely it's just going to level off and stay unaffordable.