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Originally Posted by jhausner
And as for all the other BS on the last few pages, not sure why people are up in arms about Jebby's comments. As troll-like as he is from time to time around here, I'd have to agree with him that painting all "foreigners" with the same paint brush is not only unfair but quite frankly dangerous. We're a region founded on foreign investment both in dollars and in human capital (people immigrating to Canada and Metro-Vancouver specifically). The reason I dislike Donald Trump so much is that he paints entire groups with a single brush stroke. All Mexicans are X. All Blacks are Y. All Muslims are Z. And that's just ridiculous and it's ridiculous to see it here.
Do we have some unethical and dangerous foreign investors in the region? Of course. Do some people who live here as residents enjoying our benefits but under-declaring their income to milk the system piss me off? Absolutely. But the positive side of me is fairly certain these people make up a minority of those in the region. I'd rather the government stick to closing loopholes and punishing those that commit fraud. But let's not label everyone that happens to have not been born in Metro-Vancouver the same.
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AFAIK, this was the catalyst:
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Originally Posted by Jebby
We should be welcoming every single millionaire that wants to move to Canada and bring their money with them.
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Which is basically stroking the paint brush in the other direction: assuming that every millionaire is virtuous, coming to Canada to settle down, and will eventually invest all their millions here.
If that were the case, the current clustershag in the housing and public service departments would not be happening on this kind of scale.
Ideally, we'd want to attract investors and businesses and ALSO repel upper-class freeloaders; since housing prices are driving
businesses and
workers away, implementing policies that drive said prices down allows the province to do both. If that's a distortion of the free market, so be it - it seems to be failing us anyway.