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Its kind of crazy that Canada now has the same population as California, and is 25 times bigger physically. Whereas Canada's economy is 50% smaller than California's (3T to 2T).
Congratulations Canada - welcome to the big leagues! I hope they continue to grow and become a meaningful player on the global stage! Canada is a wonderful country with a lot of places to visit, culture to experience, people to interact with - I visited there 5 years ago and was able to visit only a small part of such a beautiful country. Now, they can (hopefully) deal with the issues that come along with increasing…
I'm unfortunately very serious.
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The provincial area figure is meaningless for computing density. It’s like calculating the density of beer in a glass that’s been poured with 99% head. The real density is in the quarter inch of beer at the bottom of the glass, not the giant blob of foam above it.
Found the Canadian.
Australia has dramatically increased its immigration intake. 750,000 this year and next, with 1.5 million in total coming in the next 5 years. This huge number of people are being brought in during Australias worst ever housing crisis. The ALP government doesn’t care in the slightest. In fact it’s greatly to the advantage of the politicians, most of whom own 1/2/3/4/5/6 or more houses.
Congratulations Canada - welcome to the big leagues! I hope they continue to grow and become a meaningful player on the global stage! Canada is a wonderful country with a lot of places to visit, culture to experience, people to interact with - I visited there 5 years ago and was able to visit only a small part of such a beautiful country. Now, they can (hopefully) deal with the issues that come along with increasing…
Where's your friend? $1300 cad for a 700sqft pad in Toronto is a steal! I'm unfortunately very serious.
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This is not Canadians making babies, which they do below the replacement limit as in other developed countries. This is massive levels of immigration. Canadians do have a bigger per capita environment footprint, but still it’s really just moving people around. Whether those levels of immigration can be sustained without causing social problems is not yet known. Certainly housing is extremely unaffordable and taxes ar…
> Whether those levels of immigration can be sustained without causing social problems is not yet known. Certainly housing is extremely unaffordable and taxes are very high. Canadian immigration quotas are simply out of control, about 10x per capita what the US allows. And it's just the beginning, apparently the current ruling party is planning to give amnesty and permanent residency to half a million illegal migrant…
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1.5 million over 5 years are a rookie numbers. We did 1 million just last year. And our housing minister of housing in Canada just bought his second rental property.
> We did 1 million just last year. I'd note that this number gets thrown around a lot, but it was 600k temporary work/study permits and asylum claims.
Congratulations Canada - welcome to the big leagues! I hope they continue to grow and become a meaningful player on the global stage! Canada is a wonderful country with a lot of places to visit, culture to experience, people to interact with - I visited there 5 years ago and was able to visit only a small part of such a beautiful country. Now, they can (hopefully) deal with the issues that come along with increasing…
Where's your friend? $1300 cad for a 700sqft pad in Toronto is a steal! I'm unfortunately very serious.
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1.5 million over 5 years are a rookie numbers. We did 1 million just last year. And our housing minister of housing in Canada just bought his second rental property.
Housing speculation in Canada is a national industry. The assholes in both the major parties will never lift a finger to do anything about it because either they, or their baby boomer voters, are all hyper invested in making sure Number Goes Up for housing. Look at the way Poilievre foams all apoplectic at the mouth about the BoC raising its rate (as if it's Trudeau's choice what that # is... but whatever) while at t…
Inflation make that 1.2 trillion worth less (and everyone elses money). It's a strategy. Trudeau doesn't control the rate directly but he is still sending out larger and larger cheques for votes and keeps spending on social programs and military spending like the money supply is unlimited. Having a second house means little when there are bigger paydays