Why the hell is the government paying for a service that is directed towards individual households at a price that few households would find difficult to pay for in the first place?

This is frankly not only a waste of taxpayer money, but also a blatant attempt to buddy up with an American oligarch.

Once again, Ford is selling this province to his oligarch buddies.

I think there’s a serious issue of conflating affordable housing with low income housing. The two are different things. I mean, a two bedroom apartment that can be paid for from a single person’s full time salary at minimum wage is different from an apartment meant for someone who can’t hold a steady job.

People so often talk about the latter as the only form of affordable housing, when it’s the former that’s actually needed. So many people are in subsidized housing because it’s either that, or something that’s over $2k a month for a single bedroom or a condo that’s half a million. There is almost nothing in between for most of Toronto, which is the real issue.

And all the problems with drug abuse and people causing so much local trouble is because they’ve lost purpose. Without housing that’s of a decent price, it’s no wonder that so many homeless have appeared and is causing trouble all over the city the moment the economy dipped. For lots of people, the moment they lose their income, they’re too far over their heads to be able to stay at their current homes because they’re so expensive. And how the hell is anybody supposed to get a job when they don’t have a home to take a shower to get cleaned up for an interview?

Affordable housing is literally the first step to being able to live like a basic human being, and those NIMBYs are against such things. They’re basically the same as all the things we complain about when it comes to the western oligarchs like Musk.

I think we shouldn’t just see this as a Trump 2.0 thing either. This has been going on for at least a decade now. It’s just that T2.0 has taken things to the point that it can’t be ignored. NAFTA2 was pretty bad for us, and Biden hasn’t done anything to make things easier.

Even if we don’t get a Putin scene where Trump rewrites the constitution and gets a third term (somehow when he’s like 80 and clearly suffering from dementia), I have little hope that the next president will be any better. Even the best case scenario would be someone who’s completely occupied putting out the internal fires Trump has set with napalm, and won’t have time to give the rest of the world much thought, let alone Canada.

Relying so much on the US was never such a good idea, and there won’t be any stability down south for the next decade at least.

Don’t forget, he’s still under a criminal investigation over trying to bulldoze the greenbelt, and that’s before his latest legislation to bulldoze part of the greenbelt to build his bypass for a highway that doesn’t even reach anywhere near capacity.

That hat of his that says Canada is not for sale is on backwards, as Ford is the single biggest proponent for selling off Canada in Ontario, and he’s been doing that the entire time he’s been our premier, and to the detriment of all Ontarians.

Frankly, it’s insane how he has any support when he’s made everybody’s life worse, especially for rural Ontarians when he’s entirely neglected them in favour of focusing all his energies tearing up Toronto.