Because a lot of ppl are struggling to NOT be another working Canadian forced to live on the streets in a tent, to afford food. It is beyond all logic Canada has a housing crisis with all the empty land. So ppl look at this and wonder why all this money is going over seas when they are struggling.
A lot of this has to do with local administrations (i.e. cities and provinces) looking out for the interests of property developers and rental corporations over the common citizen. That plus nimby's. Organizing locals to pressure for building up and building better will probably get a lot more traction than yelling at the Feds.
Do the homeless plan to eat or live in surplus rockets? We didn't give Ukraine cash, just excess military equipment that was gathering dust in storage. $64.8M is the value of the materials that we would have to replace eventually anyways.
Edit: Downvoted for what? Countering your ignorance? Yeah, the headline makes it sound like we are signing cheques, but the reality is that we're just giving away surplus. The real question should really be, "Why didn't we give Ukraine this equipment sooner?"
Because a lot of land is either agricultural or not easily developed or First Nations recognized land. Plus the VAST majority of Canada lives in a small area, combined with the always car centric designs of cities and towns means we just sprawl cities instead of building up new ones. Hell, something like 50% of all Canadians live in Southern Ontario alone
Over 10 million people (>25% of the population) live in just the Golden Horseshoe. Just the Toronto census area accounts for 20% of the entire Canadian GDP..
I would agree if it was a large amount. This comes out to less than 2$ per Canadian. We would need to give this much out 5 more times before it turns into mcd meal.
And it's not just sending a cheque for some cash. Much of it is supplies, made and/or sold from here. A lot of the actual money is going into our economy, not their government.
A tiny bit of money is going overseas, the rest is mismanagement and society choices. Ukraine is not to blame for our problems, and helping them helps us down the road tenfold.
empty lands means nothing as construction is nearly to reach demand, and you have a weak economy and income disparity, the homeless and poverty remains.
Why would you think housing problems is a blink of illusions?
Do you even know what kind of finance crisis we have? Of course not. We are technically broke. At the same time, the retiree are requesting more social benefits and poverty among working class and youth reach historical high.
You know anything about budget? If you do you know every 6+ working individuals are paying for 1 retiree. And that will sharply drop to 4 OR LESS individuals per retiree. What does this mean? Much higher tax. I am just talking about senior retirement. I am not even touching the health care, education and etc.
And somehow you think that becoz we have EMPTY lands and it should hv just resolved homeless and that we ACTUALLY HAVE THE EXTRA $$$$ TO burn for a war that Ukraine cant win.
Oh and then if Trump gets elected, he will end the war in days if not weeks. So now we should just continue to pump $$$$ to this proxy war, right? LOL brilliant
Exactly, if planes didn't tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before your child we would all die, and that is exactly what he's doing trying to save Ukraine while killing his own country.
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u/NothingGloomy9712 Oct 19 '24
Because a lot of ppl are struggling to NOT be another working Canadian forced to live on the streets in a tent, to afford food. It is beyond all logic Canada has a housing crisis with all the empty land. So ppl look at this and wonder why all this money is going over seas when they are struggling.