Marty200

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[–] Marty200@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they don’t want to lower property values. If you reduced house prices to pre covid cost plus a more standard increase, say 25% vs the 53% google tells me that has happened in Ottawa. Anyone that has bought recently would be absolutely screwed. If they end up having borrowed more than the house is worth, the bank isn’t going to let them renew. That’s a lot of people whose down payment would have evaporated.

[–] Marty200@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Can you site some examples that would be comparable to deals likely to be made with Canada? Googling china broken trade deal just returns china us trade wars.

[–] Marty200@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

We’ve gotten those warnings before. The question is do they stick to their trade deals when we disagree on foreign policy.

[–] Marty200@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I 100% agree that we shouldn’t be privatizing our government services. I’m not sure that chip manufacturing and testing should be a government service.

[–] Marty200@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Canada post is a government service in my mind. This CFPC seems like a strange way to spend tax dollars. Has it been successful at creating jobs or direct return on investments?

[–] Marty200@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I live in a small town outside Ottawa. Facebook has decided that I’m one of the people that wants to see the No ALTO post. The comments on the post are hilarious. Some people make good points about it been a huge expense, but the rest are people claiming that no one wants it and nothing will ever grow again between between Toronto and Montreal. Combine that with people that think we can run fast trains on the existing freight lines and the other that think we should just be building pipelines to refineries that can’t use tar sand oil. It’s good for a laugh and but I can’t bring myself to engage with them.