The prime minister is meeting with his youth advisory board this week to hear its most 'pressing concerns,' with the aim of informing future policy decisions.
The prime minister is meeting with his youth advisory board this week to hear its most ‘pressing concerns,’ with the aim of informing future policy decisions.
Reminds me of the time he said he’d change First Past the Post voting and then had a committee investigate possible alternatives. After a year or two the committee presented him with their report to which he ignored entirely, changed nothing, and never talked about it again.
I get the feeling this is just to give the impression that he cares.
Pretty much every politician. Ask for a report from public. Get experts in to look into options and then decide that it’s either too expensive or that it’s not viable.
Explain again what the point is in politicians. They have no discernible talents. Could save a lot of money and probably humanity if we replaced them with the experts.
Politicians seem to be middle men that add nothing to the situation and yet they muddy the waters and cost a fortune
It’s kind of like when you work at a place where nobody actually knows how to get work done, so you have meetings and off sites to talk about the problem and the miracle solutions but nobody knows how to not takes that first step on the path to doing something.
I don’t blame housing entirely on the liberals, most western countries are also in an affordability crisis, but ours is the worst. We should have tightened interest rates in 2017-2019, we should not have focused on policies that simply give first time buyers more money thinking the problem was we needed to give them a step up.
The problem is and always has been supply, and they have not acknowledged or addressed that still. Rate hikes are killing new developments so unless the government steps in and does the building or backstops the housing developers, this is only getting worse.
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But pointless though aye. Kinda knows what they want yet won’t do anything since it’s costly and would likely harm his voters base.
Reminds me of the time he said he’d change First Past the Post voting and then had a committee investigate possible alternatives. After a year or two the committee presented him with their report to which he ignored entirely, changed nothing, and never talked about it again.
I get the feeling this is just to give the impression that he cares.
The difference this time is that he’s not up in the polls. So expect something completely different. Like virtue signalling.
Pretty much every politician. Ask for a report from public. Get experts in to look into options and then decide that it’s either too expensive or that it’s not viable.
Explain again what the point is in politicians. They have no discernible talents. Could save a lot of money and probably humanity if we replaced them with the experts.
Politicians seem to be middle men that add nothing to the situation and yet they muddy the waters and cost a fortune
My initial thoughts after this and their cabinet retreat are: Are they looking to do something or just looking like they’re doing something?
It’s kind of like when you work at a place where nobody actually knows how to get work done, so you have meetings and off sites to talk about the problem and the miracle solutions but nobody knows how to not takes that first step on the path to doing something.
I don’t blame housing entirely on the liberals, most western countries are also in an affordability crisis, but ours is the worst. We should have tightened interest rates in 2017-2019, we should not have focused on policies that simply give first time buyers more money thinking the problem was we needed to give them a step up.
The problem is and always has been supply, and they have not acknowledged or addressed that still. Rate hikes are killing new developments so unless the government steps in and does the building or backstops the housing developers, this is only getting worse.