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This is one issue with short term management. Just like Wall Street only cares aboot the last quarter, or they may replace the CEO, the country only really cares aboot how we are dooing today. How many voters want to suck-it-up-buttercup? Most will vote for the can kicker b/c that makes today more better.... Unsure if there is ramifications later or not. Average Joe does not run a for-profit business. When you have a longer term management team, like China, Russia, Japan (?) - then you can accomplish longer term projects. .

We can solve this we just need to turf the Liberals pronto and start pressing the go button on resource development. Even then, we have a lot of work to do and we cant let much get in the way of this. We've had more than enough obstructionist radicalized idiots steering the boat into the bottom of the ocean. We need some serious stewardship and teams of solid support staff and companies to get us moving upwards. We also need to draft new laws preventing politicians from using any debt at all. They can only use last quarters taxation intake for next quarter and thats it. Enshrine into law a debt retirement plan as well. Then its really how fast we want to accomplish this. Then we build a sovereign wealth fund like Norway. This will take time yes for sure but think of the mids of our children and future generations how they will see Canada and the pride they will have for this great nation vs the Liberal despair and dystopian world they are creating. Its so damn obvious its literally insane that we are not doing this. The sell is easy. The goals are achievable and reasonable. Its all those total a-ho Liberal boomer voters to blame. Wake the heck up and snap out of it the Liberals and NDP trains are completely off the tracks barrelling down a mountain side with no soft landing ahead

We all have our central banks to thank for “printing” or increasing (however you want to look at it) the total fiat supply by about 40% over the span of about 18 months during our recent pandemic. You can’t add more currency units to a monetary system that fast and not expect prices to rise especially if you have the same amount of goods. No man should be able to just print money that another man has to work for. They usually don’t increase the money supply that fast. But during times of economic crisis or warfare, it gives them an excuse to increase the supply and debase the currency. This has been proven time after time throughout history. The more they “print”, the weaker the dollar gets, and it’s not like our goods and services are becoming any better quality either to justify the increase in prices. I think we can all agree the newer stuff just isn’t built like it was years ago. Our dollar is shite, and the current prices on almost everything proves that, and unfortunately with this war going on, it’s giving them yet another excuse to print more and more money. Not to mention the US is $37trillion in debt and prints daily just to service the interest alone Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the printer will continue to print, and inflation will also continue until people just lose faith in the currency and ultimately, it fails. it’s not a matter of if the currency fails, it’s when.

Not necessarily better wages but a much different lifestyle. No rush and hustle and bustle. They do not live in big houses for the most part. And if they have a cabin in the woods it’s a real cabin. Not as many ways to waste their earnings also. No sleds for the most part. No ATVs It mountain bikes and skis

Those guys are gang related, defiantly not poor. They run all major intersections in city. They use money for weapons, drugs etc. Offer them a sandwich and see what happens 😂.

Yep. I see it every where that if you want to save $10000 per year, all you have to save is $27/day. I was at a stop light yesterday and the guy begging for handouts was talking on his cell phone....lol Look at what stores are in all the new strip malls. 75% fast food.

Long shot that needs to be explored for sure. It'll be a long time coming at a competitive level if ever. Research and development I'm afraid will eat up any potential for it to be competitive any time soon. EV's themselves have a long way to go before they are ever more than a grocery getter. But, better to have light at the end of the tunnel than not.

Home depot yesterday. Purchased 3 pcs of non vented soffit, 3 2x4's and 4 interior use electrical boxes with switches/plugs. $167 Even basic home maintenance costs are getting out of hand. If I had to hire the corresponding contractors at a minimum of $100 per hour plus service call/consultation fee's it would easily be $1000. And that is a conservative estimate. Our kids dont stand a chance if they dont have family that can afford to invest in their futures.

Just part of the Trudopes legacy.

Should have gave Canadians incentives to grow population more steadily. 👍 That would have been way cheaper and better for everyone. Cheap day care is nice while it lasts

They are willing to pay whatever it takes - vs sleeping in tents on the street. That is the point People are "willing" out of necessity to pay double what they should be because there is NOTHING else available. Our government had a very heavy hand in helping create that particular portion of the situation

At the end of the day, prices are only what folks are willing to pay. .

The problem is widespread and has many factors: It's not just one thing, that's for sure. That said, the Feds do however have a big hand in it on the immigration policy. When you allow insane immigration numbers into the country - you have to house those people. There is only so much housing and demand has exceeded available housing - which naturally pushes values/costs upward. It is a very easy problem to solve. Canada right now is exactly like my work - our work feels we need to keep growing ( profit of course ) but there is no organic growth left - our only growth is through acquisition/consumption.

The feds have little to do with housing prices directly that I agree. The feds have everything to do with our economic decline. The economic decline is essentially a massive devaluation of Canadian value. Between the stunts at the IMF, China and the juan, US over printing, and Canada feds literally locking down our resources to basically not a significant market provider this is exactly what led to massive increases in home prices. Its not the price of the home. Throw away concepts of the Canadian dollar thats fiat nonsense. All wealth is generated from assets and labour. There is no other kind. In 1968 before we got the curse of Trudeau sr beginning his deficit spending and we began to carry debt and the red tape machine began knee capping our resources. The Trudea family dirty secret is they were in the oil business. Specifically importing Saudi oil so both Pierre and Justin Trudeau did their absolute best to completely stifle Canadian oil development and exportation. They did that job well you have to give credit where credit is due the Trudeaus were a disaster for Canadian wealth but boy oh boy did they ever get the task of destroying Canadian oil exports right. Bravo comrades. Anyways the housing market has faced numerous problems the biggest of which was the second major problem our moronic Canadian Liberals did which was force almost all of our manufacturing to close and move offshore. Heck that dolt Kathleen Wynne when questioned about all the Ontario manufacturers packing up and leaving Ontario she bragged that this was a bygone era and NOT the way Ontario needs to go. To whit Wynne promptly began her green energy crusade and lets take a look at the basic bullet points here. 1. She sold Hydro One to private companies. 2. Wynne took that money to produce green electricty with her mighty wind power scam. 3. Electricity rates tripled for Ontario. 4. We received a grand total of just over one percent reduction in coventional electricty production for all those windmills and at three times the price per KWH. These efforts destroyed private business and production further and some of our best and brightest companies packed up and left because of operating costs. Swiffer being one. A Canadian invnented and owned company now in the states operating at less than 25% of the costs to operate in Ontario. These massive gaps are not only non competitive they are anti competitive. All the while jobs lost, pay stagnant, global growth exploding while Canadians value declining the slow death spiral. Homes being an asset same as resources have seen their value go up because of this as well as goreign investment and so many investment corps domestically that no longer have factories or big private interests to invest in so they too invested in real estate which drove the home prices up higher. Every cent of these over priced homes is directly tied to extremely poor management from the Liberal and NDP morons. Meanwhile imagine a Canada where instead of Trudeau SR punching down with all his might on Canadian oil and other resources how we could be today as the world leader in oil, and LNG exports? Can you even imagine what we could be? The AVRO arrow would be but one of a multitude of world dominating Canadian designed and manufactured machinery. Why? Because we would have built the economic might we should be and home prices would be the last thing on anyones mind here. This is the short version, but it is fact, not opinion. Liberals do not want a prosperous Canada. Stop voting for these crooks Now about that Brookfield assets. Where exactly is Carney spending all this new defense money? Is Brookfield assets not an AMERICAN company now? Eby using government money to buy Chinese boats? You see where this is going? Now about those home prices and quality of life for our kids?

More too it then that. Material prices have sky rocketed too. Concrete over double the price it was in 2022. I just poured a new pad and quote came in allot higher then I thought it would. Then cement truck drivers are grumpy and claim they are way under paid, because they have India people running 6 people in a truck he claims 😳. He says they can't even understand hand signals either and they just pour cement where ever it happens to land 😳 lucky I didn't get any of those this time. I see new semis and townhouses going for 600 to 750 ish k Canadian around here now. It's insane. we just bought a one bedroom condo asking price was 300 and we won it at 420k Canadian. It's about 4 years old and close to farm in Kitchener. 420 k is still a decent price. Bid wars seem to calm down. At 450 I would have walked. Wife wanted it for her son because it's close to university's. The last place was a dump snd they wanted 430 no way lol.

Blows my mind when I see folks that seem like they have their head on straight most of the time - go and blame The Feds for housing prices. Housing prices will follow what someone is willing to give for it. It is a supply and demand market. When the trend is going a certain way, it will continue that direction for a while, before swinging the other way again. It was the easy money from The Flue that seemed to start this trend for whatever reason. And "work from home" is certainly influencing housing further from the eppicenters, and raising values in rural areas, and especially lakefront properties. Just b/c you are willing to pay the new asking price, doesn't make it someone elses fault that you are over your head. Buy a rat trap the next time. .

Everyone laughs at us these days. Our hubris gets in the way of reality

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They make better wages and more holidays than us too.

My friend from Austria said Canada is the poorest rich country. Europeans laugh at how we have so many resources and could be such a wealthy country across the board but our governments keep us down.

They are all the same liars. Doesn’t matter what party.

The problem isn't the passion, its the economy plain and simple. We have been duped into a mortgage poor slave nation because of Liberal and lefty nonsense. Canada has resources and little else. Instead of electing governments that work to supporting businesses that want to bring these resources to market we have elected Liberal goon squad after goon squad who bury us in debt instead of enabling us to make money. So we get what we have today which is generations of financial losers coming up the ranks. Our own children To think that so many parents of these children who are getting the short end of it AGAIN voted Liberal and voted for more of this debt nonsense with Carney. Stop being so blind Liberals have it wrong. There is no need for any of this

I only saw 7 other sleds when I was in Ontario this winter. 4 were at staging and heading to or from camp. None on trail... 3 were actually riding, but they were 15 klicks from the closest trail. We had 4 permits between us, but there was only 2 of us, and we did ride a trail that happened to be groomed to git to point B, but neither of us had our tags stuck to our machines. The other 2 tags were never used at all. .

One big issue that the younger generations face is growing up now with so many accepted and encouraged drains of the wallets! That have become like a necessity! Cellphone bills internet bills Tim hortons or Starbucks multiple times a day fast foods Uber Eats or Skip Uber itself Just so many more ways to easily spend little bits of your money these days.

I notice a few old sleds out with no pass but not anyone with money invested. Good to know not all hope is lost. I mainly ride through the week as the trails get groomed and if I ride weekends it's generally well after dark. I've always liked night riding. The days of snowmobiling being like the wild west are long gone and I guess the appeal of lawless freedom has gone also. We used to ride like a pack of wild banshee's exclusively at night. This offered the safety of headlights in the bush and blind corners giving us time to slow down and ride accordingly. I freely admit that I am not a good example of how one should ride on public trails. I'm still a ditch banger at heart but lacking the strength I once had. I learned that the hard way while jumping a road first ride out this year. Stiff and sore for awhile but in hind sight, lucky to be in one piece. As I said to my wife...it was my warning shot across the bow.