Most of my friends that are in the trades prefer small vans over pickup trucks. They can fit more tools, better organized, and easier to secure. Pickup trucks are very niche vehicles.
To play devil’s advocate here, surely the issue isn’t the fact of immigration but the amount happening each year that is worrying? They’re adding 0.6 Winnipegs per year of people without, you know, adding any cities, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, etc to handle the influx. If people can’t find a home now, how does adding more people solve that issue?
Edit: to clarify, I have no issue with immigration or immigrants, Canada’s history is all about immigration. Just questioning the rate per year without additional work going into upgrading current infrastructure.
2nd edit: to run some numbers, BC currently has 5,000,879 out of Canada’s 36,991,981 or 13.5% of the population. If that proportion continues over the next decade, BC will see an approximate increase of 600,750 out of 4,450,000 people based of of this plan (assuming the grown maintains its linear growth). If you divide 600,750 people by 293,000 new units you get 2.05 people per unit, therefore if the people immigrating are bringing their family and living more than 2 people per unit you will see a net surplus of housing, but single people will see a net loss or break even of housing.
All of this is to say, it appears they have planned to create enough housing for the people projected to come here, but not a substantial amount to increase the overall supply. It would appear it will maintain the status quo.
You touch on a point inadvertently about what makes immigration so beneficial is that the workers can start working as soon as they arrive. Or at least, as soon as their qualifications are transferred over (for example nursing). Which is far quicker than having someone born in Canada and waiting 20 odd years til they enter the workforce.
So, theoretically, the new people can help build homes, hospitals, schools, etc for the other people who need it, and then the new new people will build for the new people, and etc. There just doesn’t seem to be much planning going into it besides bring people in to make numbers go up. Also, major infrastructure works take years, so they’ll never be able to keep up.
Here is the 2020 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration which talks about why immigration is important, but doesn’t mention plans on how to support the people coming here. It focuses on the financial benefits (a large section of it being international students, which only 1.4% of the “827,586 international students [that] held valid study permits in Canada” were given permanent residence.) and demographics of immigrants.
“to run some numbers, BC currently has 5,000,879 out of Canada’s 36,991,981 or 13.5% of the population. If that proportion continues over the next decade, BC will see an approximate increase of 600,750 out of 4,450,000 people based off of this plan (assuming the grown maintains its linear growth). If you divide 600,750 people by 293,000 new units you get 2.05 people per unit, therefore if the people immigrating are bringing their family and living more than 2 people per unit you will see a net surplus of housing, but single people will see a net loss or break even of housing.
All of this is to say, it appears they have planned to create enough housing for the people projected to come here, but not a substantial amount to increase the overall supply. It would appear it will maintain the status quo.”
If they build all the housing they plan to, they will roughly keep pace with immigration. Therefore nothing will change for the better, or our current housing crisis will remain constant.
That is assuming they follow through with the promise to build that much.
I know it’s a meme, but this is a dumb take. You’re comparing two very different things, and they serve two different purposes. Sometimes you want to crush some fast food at 2 am after drinking at the pub, sometimes you want to have really good pizza where less is more and the quality of the ingredients matter. Eat both and be happy you have pizza.
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They need to do both. There are always going to be people who want/need to rent due to life circumstances as house ownership ties a person to the local area for an extended period of time. We need people to have the choice of moving, not never leaving their place because everywhere else is far more expensive than their current rates.
However, people who are ready to buy shouldn’t be faced with property values 10-20 (or more depending where they are) times their annual salary. The issue is that housing needs to stop being seen as a investment and retirement fund, and just as a basic necessity of life.
How do you ruin an entire generations retirement plan when that’s all they have? How do you screw over the following generations when most won’t have anything?
Well, when our glorious landlords own multiple properties with variable mortgages and rates go up, they pass on the increases to the tenants. So it’s not directly tied, but there is a connection.
For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they’re much easier to grab.
I write everything in my freezer down on a list with a in/out side. Once the two sides equalize I cross the line off. I also record the date on the freezer bags and the list so I eat the older stuff first.
Here in Canada there are definitely de-icing/ snow removal machines used on the tracks. Large propane heaters keep switches clear of ice so they can operate. Hi-rail trucks will go ahead of trains through the mountain passes to ensure the way is clear. During particularly bad snow storms they can use machines like this to clear the snow.
The trains will also release gravel on the rail to improve braking times.
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