Federal Government & Politics II

[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

Why do you think this is better? How is trucking all sorts of raw materials to factories where one set of workers builds pieces of houses, then those pieces of houses get trucked to housing developments hundreds of miles away where another set of workers puts the houses together more efficient than building them on site? Especially with labour shortages as they are, and your number 1 plan affecting that as well.

Modular is better because it is far more efficient. Can you imagine building cars the same way we did before Ford's assembly line? Of course not but that is exactly how we still build our housing.

Also, we live in a cold climate where there are months where little housing actually gets built made worse by the fact that cities don't allow construction outside businesses hours and nothing on weekends. This greatly curtails how much housing we can build. This is in stark contrast to modular housing built in a factory that can operate 24/7 365 days of the year. Modular housing also allows 2 pars of the housing unit to be built at the same time. One part can be building the foundation while the other part is building the house. Remember these are modular houses and not mobile ones so they can be built ANYWHERE a regular house is {you may be living next to one right now and not even know it} and qualifies forr all CMHC programs.

Obviously, modular housing is no good for high rises but it is for town/rowhomes and especially SFH. In Scandanavia, 40% of all new home construction is modular and Norway is at 50%.

[Hecate]

Housing used to be this way… many homes in the west were ordered through the eatons catalogue and built by the owner.

In reality there should be tiny home communities popping up all over the place, but the restrictions in place by municipalities are absolutely ridiculous.

[Truenorth00]

Originally Posted by Build.It

Well that didn't take very long at all. Government funded battery plants are already facing pressure from overseas, as predicted on here by myself and a few others. Rather than letting the market naturally adjust to what Canada is strongest at producing (ie. NOT batteries), we now require more government intervention to fix the last government intervention.

Both these interventions are to keep Chinese EVs out and not have our auto industry (90% exports) fall behind. Sorry, not sorry, that the government simply didn't let Southern Ontario become a rustbelt.

Originally Posted by jonny24

While we're at it, let's require Canadian construction companies be the ones who actually build the new plants.

https://www.cisc-icca.ca/funded-by-c...-by-canadians/

The majority of the jobs go to Canadian workers. People are making a mountain out of a mole hill over some home country expertise those companies brought here. How many Canadians have experience building multi-billion dollar battery plants before this?

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Truenorth00

Both these interventions are to keep Chinese EVs out and not have our auto industry (90% exports) fall behind. Sorry, not sorry, that the government simply didn't let Southern Ontario become a rustbelt.

Yep. I’m pretty libertarian but there are limits. If we fully “leave it to the market”, we’ll be buying EVs built by whipped captured slaves at enormous environmental cost — they’ll be cheap tho.

[lio45]

This ties into the classic topic of Federal politics, the masses of warm body FNSs we take in nowadays — if you listen to Canadian employers, they’ll tell you they “need” the country flooded with disproportionate amounts of desperate Indentured Servants, otherwise economic catastrophe, but in reality, it’s not a need, it’s a wish.

[lio45]

Any bets on the outcome of that Toronto-area byelection? It’s apparently a tight race (in what should have been a red stronghold.)

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by lio45

Any bets on the outcome of that Toronto-area byelection? It’s apparently a tight race (in what should have been a red stronghold.)

I'd love to see some polling out of there, I guess we'll see tomorrow if someone like Mainstreet comes in the clutch.

My guess is a very slim CPC win, maybe by 2 points or so. I think that would be an absolutely shocking result though.

[YOWetal]

Originally Posted by lio45

Any bets on the outcome of that Toronto-area byelection? It’s apparently a tight race (in what should have been a red stronghold.)

I think Conservatives will win and it won't be that close. Current polls extrapolated to the this riding make it close. Add byelection enthusiam gap, Liberals sending a message to Trudeau to go and most importantly a big shift in Jewish vote and turnout and I think it's a solid loss for Libs.