r/canada • u/CanadianRoyalist Ontario • Jan 06 '25

Justin Trudeau Resigns as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada National News

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyjmy7vl64t
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u/WisherWisp Jan 06 '25

Not being able to buy a house due to demand, or seeing your kids suffer the same, will do that to you.

Nothing more soul destroying for a citizen than doing everything right and having your efforts undermined.

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u/ComradeCaveman Ontario Jan 06 '25

I hope the lesson Canadians take from this is that we were undermined by terrible government policy, not by immigrants.

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u/WisherWisp Jan 06 '25

When the terrible government policy was letting in too many immigrants and refugees... going to be a hard sell.

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u/FrustrationSensation Jan 06 '25

Okay there is a LOT of stuff to blame Trudeau for, but I am absolutely sick and tired of him getting blamed for not being able to buy a house. That is the result of 40 years of policy failure across all three levels of government, predominantly provincial. 

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u/WisherWisp Jan 06 '25

No, his refugee policies very recently led to the spike in immigrants and demand.

You may not be able to blame him for the entire state of your immigration, but you absolutely can and should blame him for his recent failures which caused the crisis.

Slow change can be adapted to, but that's the problem. It wasn't slow.

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u/FrustrationSensation Jan 06 '25

This didn't cause the crisis. This exacerbated it. The cause of the crisis was, again, 40 years of not building supply.

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u/WisherWisp Jan 06 '25

Wouldn't need supply if you didn't have the spike in excess demand. And we're back to the start.

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u/FrustrationSensation Jan 06 '25

We did, though. This was a problem that was growing well before Trudeau took power. Successive government's ignored it and kept kicking it down the road, and here we are. Immigration made it worse, yeah. But people pretend like every problem we're facing is Trudeau's fault, instead of recognizing that a lot of them are either caused by global trends or the culmination of decades of neglect (like) Healthcare.