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Well, they didn't, though. They certainly claimed it as did the British. However, when the dust settled, we got the border we have today.
Your argument is that we have the border we have today? I know!
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Ferry service is expensive infrastructure. Who would pay?
You're right that it's a chicken and egg problem. The place needs some resource to incentivize jumpstarting that infrastructure and it's not clear what that would be.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamship_Catala_at_...
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Kitsault+%2C+BC&ia=web&iaxm... [2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arm,_British_Columbia [3] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox
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It would be a libertarian paradise.
AKA real-life Bioshock 1 sequel/DLC without the superpowers. Remote location (check); next to the ocean (check); owned by a corporate/millionaire bringing in like minded people (check and check).
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AKA real-life Bioshock 1 sequel/DLC without the superpowers. Remote location (check); next to the ocean (check); owned by a corporate/millionaire bringing in like minded people (check and check).
Sad to see libertarianism conflated with anarchism. The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it.
the 'original' libertarians (anarchists) would probably agree...
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BC was altered considerably by a series of economic crisis in the 90s; notably the softwood lumber dispute, the opening of raw log exports, the salmon fishery dispute, and the asian economic crisis. All told, they had the cumulative effect of shifting BC's economy away from lumber and fisheries and toward tourism and real estate.
The criminal government from 2001- 2017 did not help matters. Money laundering so extensive that it begot its own name (the “Vancouver Model”). It completely fucked the housing market.
At worst, the Liberals were just inept.
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Sad to see libertarianism conflated with anarchism. The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it.
> The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it. the 'original' libertarians (anarchists) would probably agree...
"I'm not going to argue against what you say you believe, I'm going to assert you believe something else and attack that, or group you with people who believe differently than you and argue against that."
Nearby (13 miles), is another ghost town but much older and destroyed. It's called Anyox and has a beautiful Eastwood buttress arch dam. I toured the area 15 years ago or so and it was fascinating. Beautiful scenery as well.
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The criminal government from 2001- 2017 did not help matters. Money laundering so extensive that it begot its own name (the “Vancouver Model”). It completely fucked the housing market.
The current government's investigation found no sign of criminal collusion at the government level. It also found that money laundering had barely any influence on housing prices. At worst, the Liberals were just inept.
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-sam...
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/04/10/BC-Liberal-Falsehoods-...
