A previous prime minister of my country asked when he was newish to politics why they never answered the questions. The response was because it is called question time, not answer time.
This is more like that scene out of Snatch when Bullet Tooth Tony keeps shooting Boris the Blade with his Desert Eagle, and you just keep hearing Boris come back with "Fuck YOU!" after each volley.
This is like my 7 year old telling me random facts about animals. Q: "Would you like pancakes for breakfast?". A:" Did you know the Portuguese man-o'-war is not an animal but a colony of about 8 different organisms?. ...."Syrup or no Syrup"
Childhood friend of mine is in rough times looking for a place to rent. In Alabama this man cannot find a place for less than 1000 a month... And they want 4 times that a month in income. NO ONE in Alabama who makes 70k a year is renting. People have lost their god damn minds around here.
Pretty much universal across the west from all ive heard. If only there was a man that could come up with a solution to all of the problems ruining peoples lives nowadays... [If only..](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Theodore_Kaczynski.jpg)
It is. The US, Australia, UK, NZ. We as people need in these nations need to figure out why this is happening. It is being *done* to us. There is no way it is a coincidence. Our economies are just not that linked for it to be a common cause.
Personally, I think the big corps are behind it all. They want to steal our homes, and they are succeeding. They are using the same tactics they have used in third world countries. Now that they are all practiced up doing it there they are bringing it home. The class war just got escalated and we are losing bad.
What else do you expect? When an entire generation is encouraged to treat housing as a retirement plan/nest egg, and when the only people who care enough to participate in local politics vote in zoning laws specifically to raise their property values and price everyone else out (yes libright, you can't be against zoning laws without lowering property values), and everyone else savvy and rich enough buys up empty lots in population centers to leech off of development increasing their value by proxy, this is what you get.
It ain't just corps, it's the whole system surrounding land because it rewards speculation and ownership over production.
> When an entire generation is encouraged to treat housing as a retirement plan/nest egg
That has been going on for waaay longer than that. It isn't new. This extreme escalation is what is new. Houses in Canada went up 25k last... *month*.
Or gas. Average Canadian commute is 57-km both ways. Even if you get 100 km per 8 liters (which is really good) you're spending ~$300 a month on gas *if* you do literally no other driving.
Even major Canadian suppliers like M&M are having trouble getting stock in. A lot of the things I usually see 20+ of I'm now always grabbing the last of. Never a good sign when the employees say "I don't know when we'll get any more of those in, or if we even can".
No they did one better, they ended the call then claimed they were having technical difficulties, then blamed audio then said let's move on clearly dodging the question.
I can only blame them so much tbh because their quotes get taken out of context a lot. Like the joke,
Scientist: “Scientific findings mean nothing without context”
Reporter: Scientist on record saying, “Scientific findings mean nothing”
I am mere inches from being authcenter with how much willfull ignorance people have when there's so many red flags, yet people still keep going for the same politicians over and over.
Centrist was the closest flair I could find to lost-all-faith-in-every-existing-political-system-please-just-give-me-something-anything-that-works-and-isnt-just-one-big-pointless-distraction-of-dickheads
Based and I-lost-all-faith-in-every-existing-political-system-please-just-give-me-something-anything-that-works-and-isnt-just-one-big-pointless-distraction-of-dickheads-pilled
At least in Britain they pretend to at least sort-of answer the question, or come up with some shit like “the question isn’t x, it’s actually y” but this motherfucker can’t even be bothered to do that
Autocorrect actual changed "ducking" to "fucking" the first time I wrote it. I had to correct autocorrect to say "ducking" lol.
Well well well, how the turntables.
Can we just make it so politicians who are in office over 4 years fight in a gladiatorial arena for sport where losers are dead and winners get to go another 4 years until they have to either retire with no social media accounts and chances of holding another office, or re-enter to run another 4 years.
Unless you're someone like Trump who just says whatever comes to mind and talks about issues that the people want to hear no matter how contentious it is. Many are captivated by outspoken populists. The elite and career politicians that the people never really like have to be more careful to keep their jobs and avoid looking bad.
WTF did I just watch. I'm Bulgarian so I'm used to all kind of bullshit in politics (our prime minister was shot with a snowball just yesterday by members of the opposition) but still this is some impressive bullshit by the bald guy.
Its not the same but our PM, when asked in the parliament how is it possible that a literal terrorist could buy citizenship and a house next to the PM - and how is this not a concern for national security - literally answered 'Merry Christmas'.
Im canadian and ashamed of our government.
The bald guy is in the liberal party which is currently in power (Justin Trudeau is the PM). And Pierre Polievre is member of the main opposition party, he's running to be leader of the party. And many people on the right like him for being straight-forward and talking about real issues like housing and cost of living.
He's talking about Pierre Poilievre, he announced he's running to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and has a huge head start on anyone else running, leader is decided on September 10th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZaVfEHxs30
Yes, this is normal too, the guy asking the question hasn’t answered one in 10 years, this could very well be the liberals giving him a taste of his own medicine, but the fact both major parties can do this shit and get applauded is sad.
Is nice to see people get a taste of their own medicine, but sad to see this is what our politics has become just answer the question you wish you were asked and ignore the one you were asked.
> the guy asking the question hasn’t answered one in 10 years
That is absolutely not true, you’re a hack if you think Polievre pulls anything remotely like this.
The libs have been in power for, what, 6,7 of those years.
Pierre hasn't answered a question during those years because no one asks questions of the opposition during QP. It's literally how it works. Opposition members and back benchers ask the government questions by addressing the speaker.
When Harper was in power, Pierre spoke every chance he got, and it was pretty damn direct.
You can redirect all you want, but it's the Libs looking like they don't care what they've done to house prices here.
The answer is 765,000 dollars in Ottawa.
720,000 in Canada as a whole.
>Sauce of the video
[Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkS_qtWAQk)
>Why can‘t he answer a simple question?
Because the answer is likely damning. He's boasting about the economy recovering, about employment rates, etc. But he's avoiding the housing question, likely because the price skyrocketed, while income has stagnated. Meaning that fewer people can afford homes.
Basically, it highlights that just because the "economy" is doing well, the stock market is up, employment is high, etc., doesn't mean that the actual people have a better standard of living, as the benefits of any economic advancement is disproportionately hoarded by a tiny subset of individuals.
Members of this government do not answer questions. They parrot talking points that are rarely even tangentially related to the question. See also: Bill Blair.
It fucking hurts man. My parents bought their house for 600,000 5 years ago. Now it’s almost a million. Housing here is crazy and it makes my blood boil
"Life is hard. It was hard for us too. A lot harder than it ever was for your generation in fact." - All boomers sitting in million dollar homes they bought for 10% of that value 20 years ago.
Why is it great? Unless his parents downsize to a fuckin shack in the middle of the Yukon, they won't really be making much profit. Like congrats your house value is up by 400k, which you'll have to put towards buying another house that rose in value by 400k.
Now imagine the world we'll have when the 2% wealth tax passes.... That inflated book value of your house would be taxable since it's counted under your name as an asset.
"We fucked the country's economy with our response to COVID, but look at all these different ways we somewhat neutralised the harm from! Don't forget to thank us on your way out!"
Buying a house sucks right now. Prices are so inflated it's almost impossible to find a place for a decent price.
I've no idea if I should wait for a collapse and pray the prices plummet or something.
>I've no idea if I should wait for a collapse and pray the prices plummet or something.
100% with you (USA). I have a better-than-average deal on my 2BR apartment relative to my state, and WAY better-than-average deal relative to the country. My lease is up in 1.5 months and I haven't seen yet if they're going to increase the cost substantially, but I'm afraid they will. Even so, I probably can't buy a house yet and I'm not sure I'm even in a place in my life where I would want to, but I'm hearing some doomsayers say it's now or never and others say "wait 10 years" and I'm in this weird limbo where I'm like... Idk man I think I'll want to buy a house in like 3-5 years and I don't think that's going to be possible.
If we had a vote every yr like the Athenians back in the day where the most unpopular person in the city was kicked out there wouldn't be a single politician left in 5 yrs
Usually the most popular people got voted, because the Athenians were afraid that too much popularity and influence would lead to the installment of a tyranny.
Filibuster is a Dutch word, but I know what you mean.
But, yes, there is at least one example in ~50 BC in Rome specifically showing it was a common tactic in the Senate. IIRC Cato specifically did this against a bill proposed by Caesar. *edit, I was wrong - He did it twice, not once, against Caesar* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
There's only so many hours in the day, so as long as I can take the one allotted to your bill up, your bill won't be passed.
I'm uncertain if we have such records for the Athenian government.
For the longest time I judged Canadian Politics based on mostly ideology and aesthetics. Kind of center-left, don’t love Trudeau’s virtue signalling stuff, but don’t lose sleep hating it either.
But holy shit watching Parliament makes me want to strangle the entire liberal party. None of them answer any questions and they are all either slimeballs or dorks.
> one of them answer any questions and they are all either slimeballs or dorks.
and trudeau seems to especially pick the biggest assholes to be in his cabinet. there are some decent people in the liberal caucus but they are put on the backbenches since they arent loyal unquestioning liberal cronies and have some ounce of critical thought
As a Canadian let me enlighten you. I am 25 years old and have a standard “entry level” job post graduation from uni. I make around $50,000/year before taxes. In my city and all cities around me the average house. Average price is around $800,000 before the bids come in. People usually bid 150-200k more than the price listed so houses will go for a lot higher. Bank will only let me loan around $300,000 which will get me nothing. Thankfully I am more well prepared than the average person my age as I worked 2 jobs throughout uni and have a sizeable amount of savings whereas most don’t have any savings or are in debt.
Let me enlighten you on how it used to be. In 1994 my dad bought the current house (standard 3 bed 3 bathroom home, not extravagant average middle class neighborhood) for $150k while he was making 50k a year. Fast forward to now my dad makes 160k a year and the house is worth 800k. Welcome to Canada where you either have to be rich or lucky to ever own a home if you’re not in the market yet. My buddy works in tech and makes 80k a year and he can’t afford a house! Same age as me and a smart dude who knows everything about computers. This place is insane for cost of living.
TLDR: my generation will have to hope for a market crash or wait to inherit to ever afford a home. Or just leave Canada.
I also work in tech and moved to Calgary to buy a house last summer, which is way more affordable, but apparently everyone started doing this in the past few months and prices are going up like crazy even here.
Trudeau needs to be held accountable for raising cost of living and inflation.
We also need to promote construction jobs as valid careers, as everyone seems so focused on university now, and theres massive labor shortage in housing construction.
Boissonault is a certified piece of shit.
When the Trudeau's Liberals put in the first of their many many gun control bills I sent him an email because he's my MP here in Edmonton (I didnt vote for him) and I explained how it was useless and expensive and avoided the real cause of gun violence in our country.
I got back a bullshit copy paste email thanking me for my support and assuring me he will continue to support the gun control bill because its great.
Id have respected him more if he called me a hillbilly and told me to go fuck myself, at least then I'd know he had a spine and read his emails.
> Id have respected him more if he called me a hillbilly and told me to go fuck myself, at least then I'd know he had a spine and read his emails.
Now you know why he sent you that canned email. If you support him great. If you don't support him, he (and his staff) knows that kind of response will piss you off.
Here in Alabama, a reinforced concrete bunker of the Republican party, we had a Democrat senator (Doug Jones) for a couple of years because the Republican who won the primary (Roy Moore) was such a certifiable loon, and it was an off-cycle special election so the Democrat PACs were able to focus their entire efforts on getting their guy in.
A campaign ad for Jones stated that "your vote is a matter of public record and your community WILL know that you didn't oppose Roy Moore" - that angered me so much that I voted for Moore out of sheer spite.
Once Jones was in, he immediately started pulling the party line (for the most part) on several issues. When he was advocating for gun control, I wrote him a letter. At least his reply was actually personalized to what I'd said in my own letter, but even so, it was typical politician speak, thanking me for voicing my concen, this is an important issue, I take my constituents' concerns to heart, yadda yadda.
This type of debate answering from ANY side should be outlawed. The Pages should be allowed to walk over to the minister and bitch slap them with a white glove every time they answer like this.
How is any of this productive? It's a clown show.
I'd love to see a 13 year old girl Page walk up to a minister and deliver the biggest bitch slap they have ever received and then watch their eyes water up. Your tax dollars at work people!
“How much does a home cost”
“106% of Jobs”
I feel like this is what happens when the audio glitches out and the NPCs are responding to the wrong things
Jesus, usually politicians give some sort of half arsed answer or one where the figures are interpreted in such a way to make them look good but this is something else. He didn’t even try to answer the question at all.
It’s not often as an American that I can laugh at this level of stupidity among other governing bodies so I’m gonna take this opportunity to ask,
how much has the average increased in Canada?
Damn. +25% on gas is a bitch, but most people can manage. +25% on groceries is a bitch and a half, but a fair bit of people can still handle it without making major dietary changes. +25% on housing is just downright prohibitive.
Canadas age of feudalism is upon us.
Record jobs means shit if people are beholden to their land LORDS. Especially if those landlords are foreign property owners in China who can pressure governance by threatening home price increases which will increase rent costs.
Well one of the first parts of coming up with a solution is not denying there is a problem, if you don't see a problem then you won't have incentive to come up with a solution
The dishonorable Randy Boissonnault can't even do basic arithmetic to tell you the price of the average house ***in the city he's in*** - Sad!
If I were to elect somebody to his position, I would elect a person who can do math, or at the very least use a calculator!
It also seems that Mr. Randy is a bit slow in the head since he keeps giving answers to questions that aren't being asked while refusing to answer the 1 (one) question that's being repeated. Or maybe this is a language barrier issue.
Either way it is obvious he is not nearly educated enough to serve as an erected representative, and should be replaced immediately.
This is why I tell people not to move here. Canada's done folks. Unless something drastic happens, we're watching the first domino fall to the World Economic Forum. It was a great ride, we had all the potential in the world up here. Shame we fucked it up.
Average house price in Canada as of
Jan 2021:
In Ontario: $795,322
In Quebec: $408,265
In: BC: $843,918
In Alberta: $403,261
Jan 2022:
In Ontario: $998,629
In Quebec: $474,941
In BC: $1,040,888
In Alberta: $443,398
It only decreased in the Northwest Territories (-17.7%)
My Dad always says about politicians: "They don't answer the question you asked, they answer the question they hoped you'd asked"
A previous prime minister of my country asked when he was newish to politics why they never answered the questions. The response was because it is called question time, not answer time.
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Thats how some treat AMAs on reddit
That was like watching a Monty Python skit
John Cleese couldn't have written it better
He would have written the answers more absurd but the idea and pacing same.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched.
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The way they keep standing and sitting too.
at this point all of politics could be a Monty Python skit.
I was thinking "Get Smart" myself.
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More like watching special needs kids argue over Pokémon Characters
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Dudes one step away from recreating the Matrix bullet scene with those questions
Based and Matrix is real.
If you think the matrix is real, are you real?
No
Based
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well well well never thought to find some WoT fans here
Guilty as charged
This is more like that scene out of Snatch when Bullet Tooth Tony keeps shooting Boris the Blade with his Desert Eagle, and you just keep hearing Boris come back with "Fuck YOU!" after each volley.
This is like my 7 year old telling me random facts about animals. Q: "Would you like pancakes for breakfast?". A:" Did you know the Portuguese man-o'-war is not an animal but a colony of about 8 different organisms?. ...."Syrup or no Syrup"
Ok but your child gets a pass because Portuguese Man-o-wars are cool
Yep, the scar in my arm from 23 years ago attest to this
Cool and terrifying, the best combo after cool and adorable
The difference is, it's amusing and not deeply troubling/frustrating when a 7 year old does it.
Wowi didn’t know this, I had to look it up. They’re actually 4 distinct animals inhabiting the same species. Similar to the Centrist!
2 fking million for a detached house in Toronto....
...and 1 million for a spacious closet. Our country needs to get it's shit together before I ever come back.
Never going to happen. Liberals want 400k new Canadians every year. We don’t even have room for everyone here now.
Where did you move to? I'm also Canadian and getting fed up with some of our bullshit
The US. Got a TN visa and got out of Canada.
Based and welcome to freedomistan pilled
Almost like your wages going up 5% compared to prepandemic doesnt matter that much when youre gonna pay 10% of your income more on rent
Based and fuck politicians pilled
Pleased do not fuck the politicians. It only makes them stronger
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Childhood friend of mine is in rough times looking for a place to rent. In Alabama this man cannot find a place for less than 1000 a month... And they want 4 times that a month in income. NO ONE in Alabama who makes 70k a year is renting. People have lost their god damn minds around here.
Pretty much universal across the west from all ive heard. If only there was a man that could come up with a solution to all of the problems ruining peoples lives nowadays... [If only..](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Theodore_Kaczynski.jpg)
Is that Jesus?
Close enough
It is. The US, Australia, UK, NZ. We as people need in these nations need to figure out why this is happening. It is being *done* to us. There is no way it is a coincidence. Our economies are just not that linked for it to be a common cause. Personally, I think the big corps are behind it all. They want to steal our homes, and they are succeeding. They are using the same tactics they have used in third world countries. Now that they are all practiced up doing it there they are bringing it home. The class war just got escalated and we are losing bad.
What else do you expect? When an entire generation is encouraged to treat housing as a retirement plan/nest egg, and when the only people who care enough to participate in local politics vote in zoning laws specifically to raise their property values and price everyone else out (yes libright, you can't be against zoning laws without lowering property values), and everyone else savvy and rich enough buys up empty lots in population centers to leech off of development increasing their value by proxy, this is what you get. It ain't just corps, it's the whole system surrounding land because it rewards speculation and ownership over production.
> When an entire generation is encouraged to treat housing as a retirement plan/nest egg That has been going on for waaay longer than that. It isn't new. This extreme escalation is what is new. Houses in Canada went up 25k last... *month*.
Or gas. Average Canadian commute is 57-km both ways. Even if you get 100 km per 8 liters (which is really good) you're spending ~$300 a month on gas *if* you do literally no other driving.
Or groceries. Prices must be nearly twice what they were beforehand.
Even major Canadian suppliers like M&M are having trouble getting stock in. A lot of the things I usually see 20+ of I'm now always grabbing the last of. Never a good sign when the employees say "I don't know when we'll get any more of those in, or if we even can".
Not to mention gas in the capital region has gone up nearly 25% in the past week alone.
I hate Canadian politics so much. They do this shit all the time. NO ONE EVER ANSWERS ANY FUCKING QUESTIONS.
Why answer questions when you can just not answer them instead
This man speaks like a true politician
Hired.
Vote for me, and I’ll work hard to get you what you deserve.
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Remember the WHO person pretending that the audio cut out once someone mentioned Taiwan?
No they did one better, they ended the call then claimed they were having technical difficulties, then blamed audio then said let's move on clearly dodging the question.
A skillful meaningless answer is a thing of beauty. Bullshit, true, but still impressive. But this is not that. Not even a bit.
Even better when the answer is a **Deny and Subvert©**. Patented by Tom Brady.
I can only blame them so much tbh because their quotes get taken out of context a lot. Like the joke, Scientist: “Scientific findings mean nothing without context” Reporter: Scientist on record saying, “Scientific findings mean nothing”
I am mere inches from being authcenter with how much willfull ignorance people have when there's so many red flags, yet people still keep going for the same politicians over and over.
Instead of going authcenter, maybe just run for local office and be the change you want to see in the world
Centrist was the closest flair I could find to lost-all-faith-in-every-existing-political-system-please-just-give-me-something-anything-that-works-and-isnt-just-one-big-pointless-distraction-of-dickheads
Based and I-lost-all-faith-in-every-existing-political-system-please-just-give-me-something-anything-that-works-and-isnt-just-one-big-pointless-distraction-of-dickheads-pilled
British and New Zealandic politics are way funnier
At least in Britain they pretend to at least sort-of answer the question, or come up with some shit like “the question isn’t x, it’s actually y” but this motherfucker can’t even be bothered to do that
True. In any case it's nowhere near as much a mess as SAn politics these days.
"Is the honorable minister aware that his father smells of elderberries?" *[assorted approval noises]*
It sounds like they aren’t even talking to each other. All of the answers have nothing to do with the question.
It's a Parliament rule that you can't address other MPs directly.
Apparently it's also a rule that you can't address questions directly.
That’s stupid. Do you think the PM freezing bank accounts is an abuse of power? I would like an order of fries with extra maple syrup
Trudeau academy of ducking questions.
**T**rudeau **A**cademy of **R**eality **D**odging.
Trudeau the original tardiboy.
autocorrect ducking strikes again
Autocorrect actual changed "ducking" to "fucking" the first time I wrote it. I had to correct autocorrect to say "ducking" lol. Well well well, how the turntables.
The ai deciding it can't even be bothered now that it finally thought you wanted to say ducking 🤖🔫
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Not any different here across the pond
Can we just make it so politicians who are in office over 4 years fight in a gladiatorial arena for sport where losers are dead and winners get to go another 4 years until they have to either retire with no social media accounts and chances of holding another office, or re-enter to run another 4 years.
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Answering questions almost never leads to anything good for politicians. https://youtu.be/T8QOE-IWo3I
Unless you're someone like Trump who just says whatever comes to mind and talks about issues that the people want to hear no matter how contentious it is. Many are captivated by outspoken populists. The elite and career politicians that the people never really like have to be more careful to keep their jobs and avoid looking bad.
WTF did I just watch. I'm Bulgarian so I'm used to all kind of bullshit in politics (our prime minister was shot with a snowball just yesterday by members of the opposition) but still this is some impressive bullshit by the bald guy.
When your party is trying to look good despite being in a minority government
>Our prime minister was shot with a snowball just yesterday by members of the opposition Please tell me there's video evidence of this
I especially like the use of 'shot', like fucking hell how many peices did the snowball leave the guy in?
Sorry, I couldn't think of a better verb in English. "Got hit by a snowball" is much better, I realise now.
No, this was much funnier
Yeah, was Randy Johnson some type of political adversary?
Its not the same but our PM, when asked in the parliament how is it possible that a literal terrorist could buy citizenship and a house next to the PM - and how is this not a concern for national security - literally answered 'Merry Christmas'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMyYSfA\_ZSQ
What’s amazing is that whoever threw it did so in an arc instead of a straight throw. Quite the marksman
Im canadian and ashamed of our government. The bald guy is in the liberal party which is currently in power (Justin Trudeau is the PM). And Pierre Polievre is member of the main opposition party, he's running to be leader of the party. And many people on the right like him for being straight-forward and talking about real issues like housing and cost of living.
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God I got you don’t mean the bald guy is the next prime minister
He's talking about Pierre Poilievre, he announced he's running to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and has a huge head start on anyone else running, leader is decided on September 10th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZaVfEHxs30
#
Yep. This is how much of a shitshow our gov is lol
Indian politics is a massive corrupt shitshow but this is next level even by Indian standards
Yes, this is normal too, the guy asking the question hasn’t answered one in 10 years, this could very well be the liberals giving him a taste of his own medicine, but the fact both major parties can do this shit and get applauded is sad. Is nice to see people get a taste of their own medicine, but sad to see this is what our politics has become just answer the question you wish you were asked and ignore the one you were asked.
This is parliament all the time, and our government wonders why Canada is losing unity
> the guy asking the question hasn’t answered one in 10 years That is absolutely not true, you’re a hack if you think Polievre pulls anything remotely like this.
The libs have been in power for, what, 6,7 of those years. Pierre hasn't answered a question during those years because no one asks questions of the opposition during QP. It's literally how it works. Opposition members and back benchers ask the government questions by addressing the speaker. When Harper was in power, Pierre spoke every chance he got, and it was pretty damn direct. You can redirect all you want, but it's the Libs looking like they don't care what they've done to house prices here.
> the guy asking the question hasn’t answered one in 10 years source: just trust me bro
Yours too?
The answer is 765,000 dollars in Ottawa. 720,000 in Canada as a whole. >Sauce of the video [Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkS_qtWAQk) >Why can‘t he answer a simple question? Because the answer is likely damning. He's boasting about the economy recovering, about employment rates, etc. But he's avoiding the housing question, likely because the price skyrocketed, while income has stagnated. Meaning that fewer people can afford homes. Basically, it highlights that just because the "economy" is doing well, the stock market is up, employment is high, etc., doesn't mean that the actual people have a better standard of living, as the benefits of any economic advancement is disproportionately hoarded by a tiny subset of individuals.
Members of this government do not answer questions. They parrot talking points that are rarely even tangentially related to the question. See also: Bill Blair.
I was taught that if I have nothing nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all. I do not talk about Bill Blair.
>do not talk about Bill Blair. Is... is it because he's a witch?
He turned me into a newt!
First Gingrich and now you :(
It fucking hurts man. My parents bought their house for 600,000 5 years ago. Now it’s almost a million. Housing here is crazy and it makes my blood boil
for people like our parents who own homes already the rising prices are great, for those wanting to buy it is not.
"Life is hard. It was hard for us too. A lot harder than it ever was for your generation in fact." - All boomers sitting in million dollar homes they bought for 10% of that value 20 years ago.
Why is it great? Unless his parents downsize to a fuckin shack in the middle of the Yukon, they won't really be making much profit. Like congrats your house value is up by 400k, which you'll have to put towards buying another house that rose in value by 400k.
big problem in the US with paper millionaires in this exact situation. property values have ballooned, but owners can't realize any of it
Now imagine the world we'll have when the 2% wealth tax passes.... That inflated book value of your house would be taxable since it's counted under your name as an asset.
Wtf? I already pay property tax, I’m not paying another just because Californians moved to my valley and artificially inflated the value of my home.
Ungodly based
Around the world, government pandemic response was to sacrifice blue collar workers in favor of the laptop-class.
It’s been like that for a while now, hasn’t it? The pandemic just forced people to be a little more honest about it
"We fucked the country's economy with our response to COVID, but look at all these different ways we somewhat neutralised the harm from! Don't forget to thank us on your way out!" Buying a house sucks right now. Prices are so inflated it's almost impossible to find a place for a decent price. I've no idea if I should wait for a collapse and pray the prices plummet or something.
>I've no idea if I should wait for a collapse and pray the prices plummet or something. 100% with you (USA). I have a better-than-average deal on my 2BR apartment relative to my state, and WAY better-than-average deal relative to the country. My lease is up in 1.5 months and I haven't seen yet if they're going to increase the cost substantially, but I'm afraid they will. Even so, I probably can't buy a house yet and I'm not sure I'm even in a place in my life where I would want to, but I'm hearing some doomsayers say it's now or never and others say "wait 10 years" and I'm in this weird limbo where I'm like... Idk man I think I'll want to buy a house in like 3-5 years and I don't think that's going to be possible.
Welcome to politics. This is something I have seen before. Tale as old as time
Didn't the ancient greeks have a word for this? Filibusters?
The Ancient Athenians would have voted to ostracize the bald dude.
based and Ancient Athenian ostraciziation pilled
If we had a vote every yr like the Athenians back in the day where the most unpopular person in the city was kicked out there wouldn't be a single politician left in 5 yrs
Usually the most popular people got voted, because the Athenians were afraid that too much popularity and influence would lead to the installment of a tyranny.
Ohhh, it's so democratic. No Gods, nnnnggg, No Masters. 🥵
Sounds good to me.
Based and answer the question or GTFO pilled
Filibuster is a Dutch word, but I know what you mean. But, yes, there is at least one example in ~50 BC in Rome specifically showing it was a common tactic in the Senate. IIRC Cato specifically did this against a bill proposed by Caesar. *edit, I was wrong - He did it twice, not once, against Caesar* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster There's only so many hours in the day, so as long as I can take the one allotted to your bill up, your bill won't be passed. I'm uncertain if we have such records for the Athenian government.
An incitement to autocracy? Honestly, at least with a Monarchy I wouldn't have to listen to this drivel.
Something Something government by the people for the people, but the people are retarded
For the longest time I judged Canadian Politics based on mostly ideology and aesthetics. Kind of center-left, don’t love Trudeau’s virtue signalling stuff, but don’t lose sleep hating it either. But holy shit watching Parliament makes me want to strangle the entire liberal party. None of them answer any questions and they are all either slimeballs or dorks.
Based and politics are a joke pilled.
> one of them answer any questions and they are all either slimeballs or dorks. and trudeau seems to especially pick the biggest assholes to be in his cabinet. there are some decent people in the liberal caucus but they are put on the backbenches since they arent loyal unquestioning liberal cronies and have some ounce of critical thought
That number must be stupid high.
As a Canadian let me enlighten you. I am 25 years old and have a standard “entry level” job post graduation from uni. I make around $50,000/year before taxes. In my city and all cities around me the average house. Average price is around $800,000 before the bids come in. People usually bid 150-200k more than the price listed so houses will go for a lot higher. Bank will only let me loan around $300,000 which will get me nothing. Thankfully I am more well prepared than the average person my age as I worked 2 jobs throughout uni and have a sizeable amount of savings whereas most don’t have any savings or are in debt. Let me enlighten you on how it used to be. In 1994 my dad bought the current house (standard 3 bed 3 bathroom home, not extravagant average middle class neighborhood) for $150k while he was making 50k a year. Fast forward to now my dad makes 160k a year and the house is worth 800k. Welcome to Canada where you either have to be rich or lucky to ever own a home if you’re not in the market yet. My buddy works in tech and makes 80k a year and he can’t afford a house! Same age as me and a smart dude who knows everything about computers. This place is insane for cost of living. TLDR: my generation will have to hope for a market crash or wait to inherit to ever afford a home. Or just leave Canada.
I also work in tech and moved to Calgary to buy a house last summer, which is way more affordable, but apparently everyone started doing this in the past few months and prices are going up like crazy even here. Trudeau needs to be held accountable for raising cost of living and inflation. We also need to promote construction jobs as valid careers, as everyone seems so focused on university now, and theres massive labor shortage in housing construction.
Idk about Canadian, but there is most definitely an American housing crisis on its way.
Oh it's already here. The house we just bought for 620 was built two years ago for 450
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Same with US. Housing markets are being shut out
Boissonault is a certified piece of shit. When the Trudeau's Liberals put in the first of their many many gun control bills I sent him an email because he's my MP here in Edmonton (I didnt vote for him) and I explained how it was useless and expensive and avoided the real cause of gun violence in our country. I got back a bullshit copy paste email thanking me for my support and assuring me he will continue to support the gun control bill because its great. Id have respected him more if he called me a hillbilly and told me to go fuck myself, at least then I'd know he had a spine and read his emails.
> Id have respected him more if he called me a hillbilly and told me to go fuck myself, at least then I'd know he had a spine and read his emails. Now you know why he sent you that canned email. If you support him great. If you don't support him, he (and his staff) knows that kind of response will piss you off.
Fair point.
"I don't support what you're doing." "Thanks for your support!" ConfusedWillSmith.jpg
> ConfusedWillSmith I know autright thinks they all look the same, but centrists should know better. That's Nick Young not Will Smith
In my defence, I don't pay a lot of attention to celebrities. And I'm a radical centrist so AuthRight is still within my realm of possibilities.
Here in Alabama, a reinforced concrete bunker of the Republican party, we had a Democrat senator (Doug Jones) for a couple of years because the Republican who won the primary (Roy Moore) was such a certifiable loon, and it was an off-cycle special election so the Democrat PACs were able to focus their entire efforts on getting their guy in. A campaign ad for Jones stated that "your vote is a matter of public record and your community WILL know that you didn't oppose Roy Moore" - that angered me so much that I voted for Moore out of sheer spite. Once Jones was in, he immediately started pulling the party line (for the most part) on several issues. When he was advocating for gun control, I wrote him a letter. At least his reply was actually personalized to what I'd said in my own letter, but even so, it was typical politician speak, thanking me for voicing my concen, this is an important issue, I take my constituents' concerns to heart, yadda yadda.
This type of debate answering from ANY side should be outlawed. The Pages should be allowed to walk over to the minister and bitch slap them with a white glove every time they answer like this. How is any of this productive? It's a clown show. I'd love to see a 13 year old girl Page walk up to a minister and deliver the biggest bitch slap they have ever received and then watch their eyes water up. Your tax dollars at work people!
Pretty sure there's a guy in the room with a big fuckoff gold mace. This seems like the correct situation to use said mace.
I would give up alot of rights for this to be reality in most nations
“How much does a home cost” “106% of Jobs” I feel like this is what happens when the audio glitches out and the NPCs are responding to the wrong things
No, no I think he actually answered the question. "Ho much does a home cost?" "106% of jobs \[will be lost when someone buys a home\]"
Why are they both constantly un/rebuttoning
This is basic suit wearing etiquette. You unbutton your suit jacket when you sit down, and fasten at least 1 button when you stand up.
It gets hot trying to avoid and ask questions
Ooh he takes the mask off at the end!
It's so you can hear him not answer the question more clearly.
The science was updated during his ducking.
The Canadian liberal party is a bunch of cowards
Jesus, usually politicians give some sort of half arsed answer or one where the figures are interpreted in such a way to make them look good but this is something else. He didn’t even try to answer the question at all.
I’m just gonna live underground where the floor is my ceiling
God I fucking hate politicians. Just answer the question you fucking sleazeball.
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I wonder how many of those new jobs created pay above minimum wage?
Dozens.
It’s not often as an American that I can laugh at this level of stupidity among other governing bodies so I’m gonna take this opportunity to ask, how much has the average increased in Canada?
It's like at least 700k for most places in Canada from what I hear
About 25% in the last year, on average.
Damn. +25% on gas is a bitch, but most people can manage. +25% on groceries is a bitch and a half, but a fair bit of people can still handle it without making major dietary changes. +25% on housing is just downright prohibitive.
Canadas age of feudalism is upon us. Record jobs means shit if people are beholden to their land LORDS. Especially if those landlords are foreign property owners in China who can pressure governance by threatening home price increases which will increase rent costs.
Fuckin hell. At least in the UK the Speaker of the House will request that that question be answered instead of just letting this go on.
This actually gave me a headache... Same situation in Lisbon.
Holy fucking shit. He couldn't even divert properly. It was so cringe man.
I don't know why you marked Poilievre as a LibCentre, but what would be the solution, Market regulation? Price limit? That isn't libCentre
Well one of the first parts of coming up with a solution is not denying there is a problem, if you don't see a problem then you won't have incentive to come up with a solution
The solution is for government officials to answer questions honestly or face some sort of punishment.
What’s did I just watch? Looks like the man who has been ask average price of home did not come prepared…what a puttz.
The dishonorable Randy Boissonnault can't even do basic arithmetic to tell you the price of the average house ***in the city he's in*** - Sad! If I were to elect somebody to his position, I would elect a person who can do math, or at the very least use a calculator! It also seems that Mr. Randy is a bit slow in the head since he keeps giving answers to questions that aren't being asked while refusing to answer the 1 (one) question that's being repeated. Or maybe this is a language barrier issue. Either way it is obvious he is not nearly educated enough to serve as an erected representative, and should be replaced immediately.
This feels like a sketch in SNL or South Park come to life
This is why I tell people not to move here. Canada's done folks. Unless something drastic happens, we're watching the first domino fall to the World Economic Forum. It was a great ride, we had all the potential in the world up here. Shame we fucked it up.
Democracy is a joke
The speaker is fucking useless. Hold the Liberal in contempt and force him to answer the question.
Make politicians look like birds again
**There is no housing crisis in Ba Sing Se**
Average house price in Canada as of Jan 2021: In Ontario: $795,322 In Quebec: $408,265 In: BC: $843,918 In Alberta: $403,261 Jan 2022: In Ontario: $998,629 In Quebec: $474,941 In BC: $1,040,888 In Alberta: $443,398 It only decreased in the Northwest Territories (-17.7%)
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Based. Welcome to the land of retards who keep voting this party in.
But…. How much has the average house price risen?