Unbelievably poor taste.

Entendre les memes arguments contre le Français au Canada hors-Quebec pour 50 ans.

No, it doesn’t.

In Canada, housing coops get grants and tax exemptions to get major capital projects done, even more to start one. Governments like coops because they ease social housing burden.

The reason they aren’t more popular is that a developer can’t extract nearly as much profit from building them vs private builds.

I know this because I ran the board of a co-op for almost a decade.

Understandable. Real estate and law can be obscure topics.

There is a big difference between Title and Fee in Canadian property law. And most of us hold the fee to our property, not the title.

So even the headline of this article starts off badly.

I’m a bilingual french-english Canadian, raised outside of Quebec. French is my first language. Having access to both languages in school, at home, and in professional settings has created in me and my bilingual peers a strong sense of identity, a strong sense of empathy toward those who don’t speak English as their first language, and it has allowed me to impart a sense of culture to my kids without anchoring it in religion.

That said, I have been through the 1995 separation referendum. I’ve also been harassed and mocked for speaking French. There are those who don’t care about rich cultural lives, and they have no shame in asking brazen questions like this. Given the framing and feigned innocence of your question, I think you are one of those.

What is your motivation to stir such a sensitive question among Canadians?

Yes.

Eh … now you don’t know what to think huh?

What does this mean?

Oh, I see. We’re describing our fantasy solutions.

I don’t think anyone disagrees, you’re just about 35 years too late.

When corporations were starting to claim “rights” as a person would in the early 90s, many people objected loudly. Money is louder.

US Canada softwood lumber dispute started in the 80s. Not trying to defend Harper, but he didn’t precipitate that dispute, nor did he end it.

I think what they mean is when you say “it makes sense”, it sounds like you’re signalling “that’s how it ought to be”.

Obviously you didn’t mean to convey that meaning, but maybe don’t get into politics.

It has a low journalism factor. When one writes an article, it’s important to deliver to the reader certain facts right away; who’s involved, setting, etc.

This article starts with “a podcast” and then doesn’t say which one. It then goes on for a while not giving the reader who isn’t privy to the background any relevant context. So we’re left having to re-read the whole thing twice just to parse what the fuck it’s about.

Trash writing.

Good summary.

I will add that, having moved to BC from Manitoba 5 years ago, the BC NDP party shares almost nothing in goals and values with the Ontario/Manitoba Leighton NDP, nor with the east coast union-focused NDP, which was a bit surprising to me.

There is no strong sense of worker rights and union support here, only a mild socialist “vibe”. Makes it pretty difficult to get behind when Eby is trying to go it alone, ignoring the rest of the country.

This article is trash.

China has attempted several times to start a canola industry since the Chretien deals and they do not have have the climate nor the agricultural infrastructure to produce canola at scale.

Because of Canada’s fairy unique agricultural history and geography, we’re it. No one else produces canola at our rates by a massive margin.

China can either buy canola from Canada or not at all. Those are the current choices.