Please write the housing minister (Gregor Robertson), your local MP, and Carney, telling them you oppose this exemption.
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Completely fucking pointless
Carney is highly ideologically driven and restricting investment like this is an attack on his ideology.
But I was told the neoliberal corporate-whore banker and co would be great for Canadas working class...
Investors treating housing as an investment got us into this mess. Toronto, Vancouver, and every other big city has a tonne of investor-oriented condos that nobody wants to live in. Foreign investors were a small part of that, but they contributed nonetheless.
I understand that builders need money to finance large projects, and the government doesn't want to use non-market measures to reduce housing costs.
But come on.
Liberals are just Conservatives and neither represent the ideology their parties are named after.
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