If the country cannot supply enough housing for it's own CITIZENS why bother to allow more immigrants to the country!!! Half a million each year for immigration?? INTERESTING CONCEPT.....
I am against allowing any more foreign ownership of anything in Canada, and want to see foreign workers and international students cut by 80 percent and immigration cut by 90 percent.
"Mass immigration pushes up home prices, which discourages young couples from having childeren. Politicians then say low birth rates justify mass immigration, further pushing home prices up." -MAXIME BERNIER
@@beautanner8409 you should look into him. People say he's radical because what he's saying is completely against the Canadian status quo. However that has no bearing on how correct he is. Im certainly voting ppc!
I'll reserve judgement until I look into it, but right now he's unlikely to make headway anyway - it's too risky to split the conservative vote. Trudeau has to be shown the door@@HoagMurkula
It costs Canadian taxpayers 50 thousand dollars a year, for years, to keep each new immigrant fed, clothed, sheltered and provide them with an education and medical care, (Canadian citizens that have worked and paid taxes for decades, but are suddenly forced to go on welfare, get less than 10 thousand a year.) And you wonder why the Canadian national debt is at an all time, record high!
Immigration should absolutely be tied to the housing supply. What we don't want to see is new immigrants living in homeless shelters or worse in homeless encampments. We have enough taxi drivers and convenience store owners, what Canada needs are doctors, nurses and constuction workers. Preference should be given to people with those skills provided they have the financial means to support themselves until such time as they find gainful employment. They should also be required to have a sponsor who can house them for the period of time it takes for them to get established. The citizens of Canada should not be forced to pay for accommodations or any other subsidies for new arrivals through their tax dollars.
We also don't want to see local Canadians (that have here, and only here, to call home) ending up in homeless shelters. Unfortunately this is the result when we allow unrestricted access to our scarce housing supply to wealthy offshore elites. This has come to be a pattern that has defined the populated region on our west coast.
In British Columbia, the lack of regular housing is frightening. I've lived in apt 21yrs. High rise constr encircling me. If this 3-floor complex goes I don't know where I'll live. I pay hundreds less than other suites. Won't be able to afford new rent.
But you voted for it Over and Over and Over again 3x Ethics violations his blatant racism but but he was too young at 30 to know better than to put shoe polish on his face.. The fact B.C is literally a Drug Dealing province that's why Liberals went after dealers so hard they were competition for the left wing cabal
These high housing/rental prices have made a significant portion of our population vulnerable to financial disaster. The only test at this point, for any party, is the drastic lowering of home prices and rents.
This is another major problem I don't see being discussed - "satellite families" (wealthy offshore families who earn their fortunes elsewhere, but buy property here - pricing out local citizens). They keep bringing up international students who can't afford a place to live, it's the rich families that buy several homes here that concern me more.
Ya we do, which is why we should encourage more Canadians have more kids and/or to become them. I dont think we should be pilfering talent from other countries that could also use their talents for their own countrymen/country. And I didn't even mention the issue of ethnic ghettos that come with mass immigration without assimilation/integration, not to mention the inevitible culture clash. People from all walks of life don't just magically get along when you smash them together in a city or town.
I'm annoyed that the government has been essentially ignoring this for decades. When I was growing up, my parents bought a home. This was the late 90s. They said back then that they chose to buy where they did because cities like Toronto were "too expensive". This was known a long time ago. I moved here about 10 years ago, and it had gotten even worse by then. That was when people were joking around about how "houses in Toronto might even reach a million dollars". The government ignored it. It was left to just be a Toronto (and Vancouver) problem. Now it's spread outside of Toronto and Vancouver. Now that it's affecting people in other cities too, the government cares. It feels very late. If they had been overruling outdated municipal zoning rules so that we could put up small apartment buildings city-wide, like many European cities, and if they'd have started building dedicated rental buildings, decades ago, we would be in such a different place right now than we are. We would be in a much better place.
It costs Canadian taxpayers 50 thousand dollars a year, for years, to keep each new immigrant fed, clothed, sheltered and provide them with an education and medical care, (Canadian citizens that have worked and paid taxes for decades, but are suddenly forced to go on welfare, get less than 10 thousand a year.) And you wonder why the Canadian national debt is at an all time, record high!
That's really how it works, because someone needs to build the homes and we don't have the workforce to do it here. Though we should also be less restrictive, so that it's not so hard to build here. (And I mean less restrictive to people who want to build homes, not big businesses who want to sell homes.)
@amymason156 No that's not how it works, we already have the workforce. They need to be encouraged to join the trades and the pay needs to be raised. You people always want to outsource our Laighbor. It's the most anti-Canadian thing you could do.
@@saltymonkey8874It's not 'outsourcing' when people come to live here, and no, we don't have the workforce. It takes a long time to raise children and educate them, and we don't have time for that because the baby boomers are already retiring and then we won't have enough skilled tradespeople left to train the next generation of workers. The 'most anti-Canadian thing' would be an anti-immigration stance; the country only exists in the first place due to mass immigration. That's how it's going to remain this century.
Fresh supply of new houses is no longer governed by demand and supply. Even if house prices crash and demand doubles, builders may not build new homes. This is because the cost per foot of building a house is much more than the ability of Canadians to pay. Decades of low interest rates and easy credit has completely distorted Canadian housing input prices. Glut in high immigration of wrong (graduates/office) white collar workers, has made matters worse by injecting more low income earners, further reducing average affordability. This government has no clue how much damage it's done to Canada.
As usual lots of side topics conflating the issue. Why are you talking about international students? The housing crisis is due to large families with permanent residency (immigrants) and refugees. This is your NET population growth, nothing else. Full stop, immigration. That's what is inflating housing costs, living costs, straining the info structure, and stagnating wages.
I fear for my country. An unthinking population is easily controlled. And the principle of supply and demand takes minimal effort to understand. Yet here we are. Canadians have to be spoon fed 1+1= 2 principles and only believe it if coming from authority.
What's the link: Record-breaking immigration at a time of a severe housing shortage...the link couldn't be more basic and obvious. Housing stock will take a significant time to build, immigration can be recalibrated RIGHT NOW. The argument that we need current levels of population growth to keep the economy healthy is overstated and lacks nuance. The current government is completely out of touch with its people, and reality... this has led us into a catastrophe.
I think the main problem around attitudes towards immigration is that people generally understand it to be the one regulatory faucet that the Fed could turn off IMMEDIATELY to begin to take pressure off of the affordability crisis. I'm not anti-immigration per se, but we're in a situation where the government has been having its cake and eating it too for too long. Between the economic impacts of wage suppression and over-valuated housing, not to mention diploma-mill colleges, there are no original ideas to break their addiction to inflated immigration targets. And make no mistake these policies began during the Harper era or even earlier if you look into notions like the Century Initiative.
Fact: We are hundreds of thousands of homes short of bringing the housing problem remotely under control - some say we are millions of homes short. At a time when Trudeau is getting excited about doing a photo op for a 600 apartment complex. (Less than a drop in a bucket) Fact: every Single immigrant we DON'T bring in, which we would have, is like building one of those homes. Spin it however you want, that is truth.
Foreign entities should not be allowed to purchase non-commercial real estate in Canada, and foreign individuals who do not live in Canada should be restricted in how much real estate they can buy.
Our current immigration system is absolutely contributing to the Housing crisis, so is Corporate Greed. We cannot take in everyone who wants in, we don't have the resources for it. plain and simple. Taking in people sounds good and kind but we also have to be realistic. We have no obligation to do this. For example, you may feel sorry for the homeless on the street and you absolutely should, but you wouldn't fill up your home with them because it's not feasible. The second issue is the greed of landlords and property management corporation which is why we need stricter rent controls and more public affordable housing built for those who cannot afford the insane rental costs of today's world.
High immigration and low house supply is not a bug but a feature. This is why there is never housing market crash. 70% of Canada Canada economy is related to buying and selling of houses. Plus 70% of politicians own more than one house and few have multi million dollar housing portfolio. These politician disregard any opinion which conflict with their own personal wealth building and bring more immigrants. All immigration minister get promoted to Housing minister job. More than 100 housing announcement made in last 2 months could have been done in 8 years ago. What is Trudeau smoking for last 8 years?
Why are we so concern with the international students and non permanent residents ? We have so much social problems in Canada that we have to solve. Let's focus on solving these problems before worrying about inviting people from outside into the country.
how naive are we to think we can take this many people without a problem absolutely insane soon we will see headlines in 2045 - Philippines donates 300 million to Canada to combat poverty ...
I'm not against immigration but when I see friends and family on the streets because of high rents then take a drive to the housing section of your city and it seems like your in another country is frustrating they are letting too many in and giving all our kids jobs away its ridiculous cut these social policies an save alot of money we dont need more immigration we need more housing and care for our own people snap out of whatever trance your in
Here's a thought...instead of commenting on TH-cam videos, WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR LOCAL MLA or MP. They can't ignore thousands of letters. Just a thought
Most of the developed and developing world is going through population declines and this trend will continue. Canada found a temporary patch to the problem, but this issue will not be a problem in 5 years or so down the road as the world will compete for 20 and 30 somethings. There will be better places for the young talent than Canada especially regarding weather.
What will not be a problem in 5 years? The catastrophic effect this unfettered immigration is having on Canada's socio-economic fabric is growing worse by the day, and every step we take down this road will result in more damage that will be tremendously difficult to repair.
This person seems to have some pretty major biases against foreigners - she seems to think CMHC goals are impossible to meet, but she doesn’t go into why at all. The main reason is increased labour costs in construction due to a lack of construction workers and trades. How does Canada get more construction workers and tradespeople? Usually through immigration.
From my understanding an extremely small number of immigrants enter the skilled trades or have certifications. With that in mind as well, perhaps we should invest in free trade school and additional incentives for trades and work harder to foster apprentices from the population already here. Enough kids get junk degrees rather than learning something useful and that's coming from a hypocrite with two degrees, but I also spent 3 years as a tradesman.
If the country cannot supply enough housing for it's own CITIZENS why bother to allow more immigrants to the country!!! Half a million each year for immigration?? INTERESTING CONCEPT.....
I am against allowing any more foreign ownership of anything in Canada, and want to see foreign workers and international students cut by 80 percent and immigration cut by 90 percent.
Plus Chinese police stations plus land ownership and not citizen
Yes: if you're not a Canadian citizen, why should you be allowed to own Canadian soil?
So you want a PPC government
I also want to see deportation of people who got their immigration through illegal means. Just investigate through Brampton, you'll find millions.
so any international company gets the boot as well then?@@beautanner8409
"Mass immigration pushes up home prices, which discourages young couples from having childeren. Politicians then say low birth rates justify mass immigration, further pushing home prices up." -MAXIME BERNIER
Not really familiar with Bernier, and I hear he's pretty radical - but that statement is absolutely true and needs to be acknowledged.
@@beautanner8409 you should look into him. People say he's radical because what he's saying is completely against the Canadian status quo. However that has no bearing on how correct he is. Im certainly voting ppc!
I'll reserve judgement until I look into it, but right now he's unlikely to make headway anyway - it's too risky to split the conservative vote. Trudeau has to be shown the door@@HoagMurkula
@@beautanner8409he's not too radical at all. He is abit libertarian for my tastes but man is definitely not a radical.
It costs Canadian taxpayers 50 thousand dollars a year, for years, to keep each new immigrant fed, clothed, sheltered and provide them with an education and medical care, (Canadian citizens that have worked and paid taxes for decades, but are suddenly forced to go on welfare, get less than 10 thousand a year.) And you wonder why the Canadian national debt is at an all time, record high!
Immigration should absolutely be tied to the housing supply. What we don't want to see is new immigrants living in homeless shelters or worse in homeless encampments. We have enough taxi drivers and convenience store owners, what Canada needs are doctors, nurses and constuction workers. Preference should be given to people with those skills provided they have the financial means to support themselves until such time as they find gainful employment. They should also be required to have a sponsor who can house them for the period of time it takes for them to get established. The citizens of Canada should not be forced to pay for accommodations or any other subsidies for new arrivals through their tax dollars.
We also don't want to see local Canadians (that have here, and only here, to call home) ending up in homeless shelters. Unfortunately this is the result when we allow unrestricted access to our scarce housing supply to wealthy offshore elites. This has come to be a pattern that has defined the populated region on our west coast.
You got my vote for common sense this is how it's been done throughout history without government intervention
Said like a Christian 😢
@@deemisquadis9437 even Christians can have common sense ... take care of your house first before you can help or allow others in...
I can't believe cbc did a story on this..
A 5 yr old understands the concept
I'm amazed that they didn't disable comments!
In British Columbia, the lack of regular housing is frightening. I've lived in apt 21yrs. High rise constr encircling me. If this 3-floor complex goes I don't know where I'll live. I pay hundreds less than other suites. Won't be able to afford new rent.
But you voted for it Over and Over and Over again 3x Ethics violations his blatant racism but but he was too young at 30 to know better than to put shoe polish on his face.. The fact B.C is literally a Drug Dealing province that's why Liberals went after dealers so hard they were competition for the left wing cabal
These high housing/rental prices have made a significant portion of our population vulnerable to financial disaster. The only test at this point, for any party, is the drastic lowering of home prices and rents.
We need nurses and doctors not just rich people coming to buy up houses
"We need nurses and doctors" To run Uber?😂
This is another major problem I don't see being discussed - "satellite families" (wealthy offshore families who earn their fortunes elsewhere, but buy property here - pricing out local citizens). They keep bringing up international students who can't afford a place to live, it's the rich families that buy several homes here that concern me more.
Ya we do, which is why we should encourage more Canadians have more kids and/or to become them. I dont think we should be pilfering talent from other countries that could also use their talents for their own countrymen/country.
And I didn't even mention the issue of ethnic ghettos that come with mass immigration without assimilation/integration, not to mention the inevitible culture clash. People from all walks of life don't just magically get along when you smash them together in a city or town.
Why would a doctor come here and work? I personally know around 10 doctor and nurses have left Canada for better life.
@@fourteendays544Who enforces that strictness without government intervention? How do students learn if they don't practice?
So the government woke up only 2 years ago when the prices had already gone up by 400%?
Hasn’t the prices come down since 2 years?
Government still is woke and could care less
I'm annoyed that the government has been essentially ignoring this for decades. When I was growing up, my parents bought a home. This was the late 90s. They said back then that they chose to buy where they did because cities like Toronto were "too expensive". This was known a long time ago. I moved here about 10 years ago, and it had gotten even worse by then. That was when people were joking around about how "houses in Toronto might even reach a million dollars". The government ignored it. It was left to just be a Toronto (and Vancouver) problem. Now it's spread outside of Toronto and Vancouver. Now that it's affecting people in other cities too, the government cares.
It feels very late. If they had been overruling outdated municipal zoning rules so that we could put up small apartment buildings city-wide, like many European cities, and if they'd have started building dedicated rental buildings, decades ago, we would be in such a different place right now than we are. We would be in a much better place.
It costs Canadian taxpayers 50 thousand dollars a year, for years, to keep each new immigrant fed, clothed, sheltered and provide them with an education and medical care, (Canadian citizens that have worked and paid taxes for decades, but are suddenly forced to go on welfare, get less than 10 thousand a year.) And you wonder why the Canadian national debt is at an all time, record high!
The link is SUPPLY AND DEMAND. Low supply, high demand equals High prices... Simples
more people + no homes = more homes right trudy?
That's really how it works, because someone needs to build the homes and we don't have the workforce to do it here. Though we should also be less restrictive, so that it's not so hard to build here. (And I mean less restrictive to people who want to build homes, not big businesses who want to sell homes.)
@amymason156 No that's not how it works, we already have the workforce. They need to be encouraged to join the trades and the pay needs to be raised. You people always want to outsource our Laighbor. It's the most anti-Canadian thing you could do.
@@saltymonkey8874It's not 'outsourcing' when people come to live here, and no, we don't have the workforce. It takes a long time to raise children and educate them, and we don't have time for that because the baby boomers are already retiring and then we won't have enough skilled tradespeople left to train the next generation of workers.
The 'most anti-Canadian thing' would be an anti-immigration stance; the country only exists in the first place due to mass immigration. That's how it's going to remain this century.
Fresh supply of new houses is no longer governed by demand and supply. Even if house prices crash and demand doubles, builders may not build new homes. This is because the cost per foot of building a house is much more than the ability of Canadians to pay. Decades of low interest rates and easy credit has completely distorted Canadian housing input prices. Glut in high immigration of wrong (graduates/office) white collar workers, has made matters worse by injecting more low income earners, further reducing average affordability. This government has no clue how much damage it's done to Canada.
As usual lots of side topics conflating the issue. Why are you talking about international students? The housing crisis is due to large families with permanent residency (immigrants) and refugees. This is your NET population growth, nothing else. Full stop, immigration. That's what is inflating housing costs, living costs, straining the info structure, and stagnating wages.
Don't forget that international students can bring dependants.
What's the link its pretty obvious.
Boycott businesses using international students and tfws.
I fear for my country. An unthinking population is easily controlled. And the principle of supply and demand takes minimal effort to understand. Yet here we are. Canadians have to be spoon fed 1+1= 2 principles and only believe it if coming from authority.
Who will build them? Elderly relatives brought in under the reunification plan aren't very good at roofing.
But they're expert at consuming our in-crisis health care resources.
What's the link: Record-breaking immigration at a time of a severe housing shortage...the link couldn't be more basic and obvious. Housing stock will take a significant time to build, immigration can be recalibrated RIGHT NOW. The argument that we need current levels of population growth to keep the economy healthy is overstated and lacks nuance. The current government is completely out of touch with its people, and reality... this has led us into a catastrophe.
Volume is volume math is math. This is not a country people can live outdoors
I think the main problem around attitudes towards immigration is that people generally understand it to be the one regulatory faucet that the Fed could turn off IMMEDIATELY to begin to take pressure off of the affordability crisis. I'm not anti-immigration per se, but we're in a situation where the government has been having its cake and eating it too for too long. Between the economic impacts of wage suppression and over-valuated housing, not to mention diploma-mill colleges, there are no original ideas to break their addiction to inflated immigration targets. And make no mistake these policies began during the Harper era or even earlier if you look into notions like the Century Initiative.
Fact: We are hundreds of thousands of homes short of bringing the housing problem remotely under control - some say we are millions of homes short. At a time when Trudeau is getting excited about doing a photo op for a 600 apartment complex. (Less than a drop in a bucket) Fact: every Single immigrant we DON'T bring in, which we would have, is like building one of those homes. Spin it however you want, that is truth.
Foreign entities should not be allowed to purchase non-commercial real estate in Canada, and foreign individuals who do not live in Canada should be restricted in how much real estate they can buy.
You have no idea what is really happening. This can be fixed very easily, they just don't want to, because there isn't any money in it for them. 😢
Exactly our government is run by greedy pieces of garbage and that's the bottom line.
Our current immigration system is absolutely contributing to the Housing crisis, so is Corporate Greed.
We cannot take in everyone who wants in, we don't have the resources for it. plain and simple. Taking in people sounds good and kind but we also have to be realistic. We have no obligation to do this. For example, you may feel sorry for the homeless on the street and you absolutely should, but you wouldn't fill up your home with them because it's not feasible.
The second issue is the greed of landlords and property management corporation which is why we need stricter rent controls and more public affordable housing built for those who cannot afford the insane rental costs of today's world.
High immigration and low house supply is not a bug but a feature. This is why there is never housing market crash. 70% of Canada Canada economy is related to buying and selling of houses. Plus 70% of politicians own more than one house and few have multi million dollar housing portfolio. These politician disregard any opinion which conflict with their own personal wealth building and bring more immigrants. All immigration minister get promoted to Housing minister job. More than 100 housing announcement made in last 2 months could have been done in 8 years ago. What is Trudeau smoking for last 8 years?
Less talk more action.
Why are we so concern with the international students and non permanent residents ? We have so much social problems in Canada that we have to solve. Let's focus on solving these problems before worrying about inviting people from outside into the country.
how naive are we to think we can take this many people without a problem absolutely insane soon we will see headlines in 2045 - Philippines donates 300 million to Canada to combat poverty ...
I'm not against immigration but when I see friends and family on the streets because of high rents then take a drive to the housing section of your city and it seems like your in another country is frustrating they are letting too many in and giving all our kids jobs away its ridiculous cut these social policies an save alot of money we dont need more immigration we need more housing and care for our own people snap out of whatever trance your in
Atco laid off many workers in line to replace retires and now are asking the government to support skilled newcomers.
You’d think it’s common sense
Bay street investment Reits need to go.
All permanent residency should decrease, including Filipinos Ukrainian Punjabis Afghans etc to bolster vote banks.
Special binjaby
Most immigrants working DO NOT understand or speak our language
@@carlyatkinson4307
Or even care to.
Here's a thought...instead of commenting on TH-cam videos, WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR LOCAL MLA or MP. They can't ignore thousands of letters. Just a thought
Bring in more immigrants and grow more Bramptons.
Get investment banking out of housing and you will have solved the issue.
Speculation is what's killing the housing market.
Bill the church, they are supposed to help all in need, that is what they get money for, to spend it to HELP the needy.
1:57 starts here
Supply and. Demand
Duh....
Most of the developed and developing world is going through population declines and this trend will continue. Canada found a temporary patch to the problem, but this issue will not be a problem in 5 years or so down the road as the world will compete for 20 and 30 somethings. There will be better places for the young talent than Canada especially regarding weather.
What will not be a problem in 5 years? The catastrophic effect this unfettered immigration is having on Canada's socio-economic fabric is growing worse by the day, and every step we take down this road will result in more damage that will be tremendously difficult to repair.
This person seems to have some pretty major biases against foreigners - she seems to think CMHC goals are impossible to meet, but she doesn’t go into why at all. The main reason is increased labour costs in construction due to a lack of construction workers and trades. How does Canada get more construction workers and tradespeople? Usually through immigration.
From my understanding an extremely small number of immigrants enter the skilled trades or have certifications. With that in mind as well, perhaps we should invest in free trade school and additional incentives for trades and work harder to foster apprentices from the population already here. Enough kids get junk degrees rather than learning something useful and that's coming from a hypocrite with two degrees, but I also spent 3 years as a tradesman.
Immigrants don't forget to bring your own tents ⛺ to Canada 😂😂😂😂