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vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Cultural Imperial posted:

To prevent Canada's economy from going the way of the rest of the world(remember we were in the throes of the financial crisis) the bank of Canada reduced interest rates. Additionally, lending standards were loosened by Flaherty and thus people who could nominally, not afford to buy a house, suddenly could.

Uhh what? Mortgage rules just got much more stringent over the past few years. Amortization was reduced to 25 years over the past 3ish years. Thats huge. You can't blame the federal CPC for housing at all.


Edit: Very significantly. Like a huge reduction.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/06/21/flaherty-mortgage-cmhc.html

vincentpricesboner fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Feb 19, 2013

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vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Cultural Imperial posted:

Comparing CBP and CBSA, I get way more bullshit from loving CBSA. Especially female South Asian CBSA agents. Those bitches are loving cunts with chips on their shoulders the size of gibraltar.

TSA, DHS, CBP, those motherfuckers are awesome and can be a real hoot. No joke.

Congrats on being horribly racist?

"Watch out for those South Asian cab drivers. They have chips on their shoulders the size of the Yukon. Get some whites instead."

edit:

And sexist. Those women with those sloppy vaginas, wont they ever learn?

vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

James Baud posted:

Decent reddit thread on why everything about affordable housing (for legit poor people) sucks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/e1bere/it_took_six_months_to_evict_this_tenant_his

(Landlord shouldn't own units this crappy either, burn it down and build something nice that costs 3-4x already.)

Just so I am understanding right, your point wasn't that the tenant in the OP isn't garbage and its the landlords fault, but that the discussion in the thread later from other landlords illustrates inherent problems in the system?

Because drat the OP there seems like a really bad example when we are trying to say its always the landlords fault.

vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Compared to the other countries in the world, Australia is actually pretty great, and hundreds of millions of people in poor countries would literally chop their own leg off to get a chance to live there. (Or Canada).

Saying there are no good parts of Australia is just exaggeration to the point of lunacy.

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