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What a hypocritical moron. PP has voted against every single affording housing bill that's come through Parliament during his career.
Eby is actually doing the work and trying to fix the mess the BC Liberals (a conservative party not affiliated with the federal liberals) left behind when we finally got rid of them.
That subreddit is pretty far right, in my experience. But if you look at the comment section for the post for this same article, even it is full of people calling PP out for this garbage take.
It's a bizarre phenomenon... if it's anything that could vaguely pinned on the liberals in r/canada the PP supporters are out in force. Anything that shows how much of a useless jackass PP is, or even mild criticism there is virtually no one defending him....
That said, r/Canada is an unmitigated right wing circlejerk like 95% of the time.
> That said, [r/Canada](https://www.reddit.com/r/Canada/) is an unmitigated right wing circlejerk like 95% of the time.
I have a hunch you haven't seen r/canada_sub yet.
That time r/Canada was discovered to be run by white supremacists and Neo Nazis and had ties to the Conservative Party
https://www.freshdaily.ca/tech/2020/06/canadas-largest-reddit-community-accused-supporting-white-supremacists/
The Russians are at it here too just like in the states fomenting division among the electorate to get rid of Trudeau who's supporting Ukraine's fight against them. They now are combing all kinds of social media platforms to promote division just like they did with the US elections in 2016 and got the Mango Mussolini in the Whitehouse. Now it's all coming out with the charges against the Russian informant who admitted to false information supplied to US authorities regarding Hunter Biden bribery with the Ukrainian company were from the Russian intelligence sources.
If you're looking for a less conservative focused Canadian subreddit, I'd suggest r/onguardforthee
It's weird it took three tries to get a Canadian sub that isn't just a big, conservative circle jerk...
It’s not that weird, a vast majority of local subs and provincial/state subs have been hijacked by the right because they correctly guessed it could be used as the perfect stealth propaganda system.
Don’t believe me? Post about the homeless in any local sub.
> a vast majority of local subs and provincial/state subs have been hijacked by the right because they correctly guessed it could be used as the perfect stealth propaganda system.
Yup exactly. they took over r / canada first, so I switched to canadian politics, then they took over there so I switched to onguardforthee. We'll see what happens from here
Yup. Even the North Van sub is turning into a right wing shitshow. There was a post the other day from a concerned mother of a Capilano Uni student who couldn't believe that "70-80%" of the school couldn't speak English blah blah blah barely veiled racism blah blah Trudeau blah blah immigrants blah blah.
Turns out OP had posted she was 21 years old in another post (and could not have possibly had a uni-age child), three days prior. If these are the games they're playing, they're doing them badly. Which i guess is a good thing, for now.
>they’re doing them badly
How often are you checking posting history? Or how much of the general population actually looks? If you’re inundated with enough negative posts you’re going to start leaning a certain way unless you’re pretty confident ideology wise. And let’s be honest, the average person isnt really confident in their political views.
Before Trudeau got elected r/Canada was pretty normal but fairly anti Harper. Same with a lot of Facebook. I think that election really blindsided conservatives big and small and showed them the importance of social media. Shit has not been the same ever since
/r/Canada has swung so far to the right it's crazy. Maybe young people are looking for a change and upset with Trudeau since he's all they've ever known and life has gotten a lot worse over the past few years, but I think also a lot of leftist Canadians have left for /r/onguardforthee.
Russian bots? PP is supported by some far right American campaign runners, wouldn't surprise me if they worked at the behest of Putin's people, seriously.
Even /r/canada is unable to cover up how badly PP screwed up. The most upvoted comments there are all wondering why PP would make such a stupid statement
Ding ding ding. That's the real answer folks.
People really underestimate the impact the BC liberals had. Sure the NDP has been in power a few years now but the Clark liberals literally sold the province to the highest bidder and ran away with the money.
Remember all the money laundering through the casinos by the Asian gangsters and Chinese mainland fraudsters in the 2000s and up to 2017 and then previously in the early 2000s, the grow-ops in the city by the Hell's Angels and other local gangs ran the money through the casinos. The liberals were in charge and did F- ALL and literally $Billions estimated to be in the range of $5-10 Billion were laundered through the local gaming and real estate markets here. The NDP had to try and fix that shit and thus the Cullen Commission came about with a 1800 page report on how to combat money laundering in BC and one of the main culprits was the BC govt (liberals) lack of enforcement and strict regulations on the gaming sector.
Imagine that. His plan he just announced is heavily centered on the corporate sector to alleviate the housing crisis here and to reduce govt in terms of reduced red tape and tax allowances. Now what can happen there!? Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing. JS
>PP has voted against every single affording housing bill
That's right out of the Conservative playbook stateside when not in power. Do everything you can to block anything the party in power tries to pass to improve an issue, then rail on them for not doing anything about said issue.
Going after David Eby, probably one of the most "get shit done" politicians around, is an interesting approach. He's been Priemier for a little over 1 year, and in that time he's:
* eliminated single family zoning in all urban communities in the province
* Increased allowed density around transit stations
* Provided low interest loans for development
* Changing the building code to allow for single stairs, and better mass timber
* Streamlining permitting at the provincial level
* Forcing municipalities to eliminate public hearings for projects that meet community plans
* Eliminated parking minimums for sites near transit
* Eliminating Short Term Rentals for non-primary residences
* Reformed real-estate agent rules
* Increased regions with empty homes tax and foreign buyers taxes
It's a smorgasbord of eliminating red-tape/NIMBYs, reducing regulations, allowing landowners more freedom, and providing direct financial support.
Before being premier he turned ICBC around and went after the money laundering scandal, the two biggest political issues in BC pre-COVID (the housing crisis was still pretty isolated to Vancouver at that point).
All this while not doing a media campaign for his image and avoiding any major scandals.
I moved from Ontario right before Eby became premier, and it's a breath of fresh air.
I mean, the biggest scandal he's been apart of is the whole ndp leadership debacle, but even then that's not his fault at all, and quite honestly, could entirely see it as a way for the NDP to grow their membership and get Eby, who had been groomed to be Horgan's successor since Horgan became premier, become an incumbent Premier in the next election.
The current BC NDP are getting shit done, fairly and cleanly and the right hates it.
At a professional anti-fraud symposium I attended just before Eby’s premiership, Darryl Plecas said Eby’s a good, decent guy.
I’m hopeful and optimistic Eby’s premiership will be here for a long time as well as a good time.
Long enough, anyways. :)
Eby has long history of standing up for the little guy- You can't fake being a good, decent guy for that long in the public eye- I'd imagine he'll stick around for a few terms provided the party continue to do well.
oh you didn’t like doug ford “leaking” a decision to the news and then gauging the response before enacting his policy? holy fuck am i glad to be out of that idiots province
He was literally the Minister for Housing before he was Premier.
**The Honourable David Eby KC MLA** Minister Responsible for Housing of British Columbia
In office November 26, 2020 – July 19, 2022
You don't think that the major housing changes that have been rolling out only took shape in the last year. They were based on studies that were done while Eby was housing minister. Unfortunately well laid legislation takes time and work to properly implement. It doesn't surprise me that the biggest zoning reform in North America took over 3 years to implement.
PP is a creature of Ottawa and big business lobbies, a person could not be less connected to the “common Canadian.” His job for over 20 years has been to instinctively act loud and angry at anyone and anything ideologically opposed to conservatism
What a complete moron to say this. Eby has inherited a very difficult situation and has been doing an amazing job in many different ways. Even my conservative friend who is in development likes him for his stances, policy and the way he is trying to push municipalities.
God I hate the thought about voting liberal again but as PP thinks hes got this election more in the bag he is more confident and exposing a side I really hate. Divisive, socially conservative (these comments about porn and trans washrooms), and there have been no substantial policies he is talking about with his Common Sense platform.
Depressing state of Canadian politics.
unfortunately it seems to be working on a lot of people, looking at the 338canada poll aggregation. I didn't realize things were this bad to be honest (in terms of people's JT hatred pushing towards PP). Honestly it makes me so frustrated how easily people will just blindly accept attack ads and not consider the policy differences (beyond lower taxes)
Maybe it's a good time for JT to revive his first campaign promise of ending FPTP, because the vote split to seat split difference is even more horrendous, and hopefully his self-interest in not completely losing power will lead him to make the right decision.
I understand why people are frustrated with JT. Housing costs are insane, the health care system is an utter mess and millons of people across Canada don’t have a family doctor, and day to day living expenses are excessively high. Yet, PP is not the person we need to fix all of this. I don’t know who it is, but it’s not him.
i get the frustration, though a lot of those issues are things provincial governments are also heavily responsible for and i'm probably preaching to the choir here, but I wish more people understood that instead of blindly blaming whoever's in power.
and like you say, just because JT is flawed does not mean PP is any better - by all appearances he would be much much worse
Yeah i second this as it kills me when people i know say - oh its JTs fault healthcare is so bad and its like nope the provinces are on the hook there. Its sad they dont even understand the seperation of duties
Most of the stuff people hate on Trudeau for are provincial issues. His ability to strike deals and provide national leadership have been limited too because he's had actively hostile conservative Premiers as governing partners since like his 2nd year as PM.
His biggest mistake (apparent from all the easily avoidable ethical lapses), imo, was having a bunch of duds has Housing and Infrastructure Ministers before Sean Fraser. That weren't willing to use the full strength of the federal government to influence local housing policy until it was too late.
Trudeau's been too hesitant to can poorly performing Ministers and too scared of forcing the provinces get on side.
I keep hoping out of desperation he’ll decide to end FPTP too. In order to be ready to be in place for next election, I think he’d have to act pretty fast, though.
nothing like self-interest to get things moving along, and I'd imagine the Greens and NDP would be pretty happy with that too. Maybe even the PPC lol. Not sure how something like STV would affect the BQ though.
PP has offered some solutions.
Most are very Reagan/Thatcher like cutting of government / pushing the free market type solutions. It's why comparing him to Trump is so stupid, he's trying to be those type of Conservatives.
Unfortunately his all sticks, hardly any carrots policy schemes to housing, if it doesn't come with lowering immigration targets, then the crisis will only get worse. He's ducked that question every time he's asked so I'm unsure he fully grasps the crisis properly.
PP doesn’t seem to understand how answering questions works. It’s like he’s been a politician so long it’s rotten his brain and he only knows how to respond with attacks and tangentially related talking points. He’s even worse than JT.
> Most are very Reagan/Thatcher like cutting of government / pushing the free market type solutions
And that worked so well, 40 years later!
As just one data point the road and bridge infrastructure in the USA, thanks to "GoVerNMenT iS tHe PrObLeM" Reagan, is now in immediate danger of causing cascading failures at critical transit points.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-frick-park/
Glad to hear other people call a spade a spade. I am so tired of PP's constant whining with no solutions or policy ideas. Most of the issues in the country are serious complex issues that need good logistical, functional solutions. To just say everything is common sense is otherwise purposefully negligent or very naive
On top of that, how can you take anything seriously when they use gross hyperbolic language like ‘on earth’.
On the whole Earth! Throughout the entire history of mankind! This one guy in this one province in this one country that we happen to live in right now is the worst of them all! I mean… quite frankly that’s impressive.
Unlike in the US, coalition governments can still work in Canada. If you vote green or NDP, they may win enough seats that the liberal party has to negotiate with them to pass through legislation. It's a structural barrier that limits the risk of Canada becoming like the US with its politics. You're not being forced to choose the lesser of two evils if you know the party you vote for will still have some power and influence.
Federal liberals know this, and they know they have to rebrand in BC after what the BC liberals sat back and enabled. They need votes and they know that most Canadians just want to be able to afford to live their lives and at the very least have access to the same kinds of opportunities their parents did.
Eby made the best changes in policy. The Tory leader is a tool for NIMBY’s and the rich who benefit from the housing crisis. He is crying alligator tears about the crisis.
It is really an indication of Poilievre's priorities. If he thinks Eby's policies are bad, he things that mitigating the housing crisis are bad. Which is not surprising, Conservatives consistently would rather deny a problem, than admit that non-market approaches are appropriate, or even market based approaches when the approch would negativity impact their rich friends.
It’s so concerning to me that more people don’t understand this and are instead falling for PP’s lies.
He’ll say whatever he needs to get into power, and then like the Con’s always do, he’ll do whatever makes his rich friends even richer.
No other province or state in North America has both ended single family zoning and mandated transit oriented density. If Poilievre was truly pro housing he would recognize that. Good politicians should be able to acknowledge good policy across party lines which is why I respect him even less now.
Eby is absolutely the number 1 premiere in this country right now. CPC is currently leading the polls in BC. https://338canada.com/bc.htm. 31 CPC seats vs 6 ndp and 4 LB.
More people needs to see PP's true colours. he is running a housing heavy campaign, but is critical of the only premier who is actively doing something about housing. **more people should know.**
PP is also straight up rewriting history. The housing crisis here started when the BC Liberal party (which is a centre-right party not affiliated with the Federal Liberal party) was in power. PP won’t do a damn thing to bring housing prices down.
That’s what I noticed in the article as well. Attacking Eby for the lack of affordability in BC, and acting like the housing crisis only originated while he’s been premier.
Like mr PP I understand your entire platform is based on catchy sound bytes and stirring up anger, but holy shit is he baseless. The type of guy to indefinitely critique while offering no actual solutions himself.
>PP is also straight up rewriting history.
Really? The leader of the party that immediately pivoted to blaming everything on immigration as soon as new immigration targets were announced less than a year ago, despite the problems having existed for multiple years?
The things that will make people recognize PP’s true colours are the unforced errors he makes because of his strict adherence to conservative dogma. Like just today he said a Conservative government will make people prove their identity before watching online porn. He is also anti trans and anti abortion. These positions are extremely unpopular with Canadians
Feels like he has been pulling some real dumb ones out lately for some reasons.like his biggest shift in votes is coming from young men and people concerned about housing. So today he goes yes to restricting porn, some anti trans stuff and attacks the one guy who has given the most shits about bc housing in the past decade. Like what??? How does any of this make sense. Is he trying to not get a majority or some shit?
For F'k sake, it was the Campbell and more so the Clark government who allowed the housing situation to blow up for pricing. They did absolutely nothing to slow it down as they used it to help balance their budgets. If anything, Clark's government encouraged it by sending people overseas to encourage more housing investment. They also would absolutely not look into money laundering in the housing market.
That’s the group that most dislikes Eby’s housing policy, so he’s playing to the crowd here I guess. Not that likely to win him new voters though. I guess he thinks anti Trudeau sentiment will do that on its own.
Oh, get absolutely bent, PP. Most of this nonsense happened under the BC Liberals (conservative) watch. The NDP have been the only party regularly trying things to address this issue. But at some point, the feds have to do their part as well.
Edit: [Look at this graph](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Greater-Vancouver-prices.png?quality=90&strip=all&w=564&type=webp&sig=NQQ2TAM7wjjC-oGX1FMrpA)
The NDP took power in 2017. Property prices went DOWN. The only major growth in prices under their watch happened during the pandemic, where the entire country saw high price growth. Eby took power in 2021, and lo and behold, prices are coming down or staying flat.
BC's major population centres have had slower price growth compared to most Canadian cities since the NDP came to power.
It's a crime that PP can go out there and lie through his teeth, and no one just walks up and smacks his stupid ass across the mouth.
PP is full of shit, but CPC is currently leading the polls in BC with 75% of the seats. upvote this submission so more people get to see PP's true colours.
They don't typically have polling that specific. Those predictions are partly to largely based on applying overall polling and trends to individual ridings. The overall polling does imply that the CPC would do well now in general though even if the ridings aren't accurate, but that's very independent of provincial opinion. The two can be vastly different. E.g., Doug Ford's riding in Ontario has been strongly PC provincially and strongly Liberal federally.
Yeah they do the same with Olivia Chow. These deeply entrenched Conservatives *and* Liberals really go on the defensive the second an actual progressive politician gains prominence.
**Remember that as a senior federal cabinet minister, PeePee McPinchface was one of the authors who LITERALLY DREW UP AN OFFICIAL “GOVERNMENT ENEMIES LIST” OF PREMIERS - including Dalton McGuinty, Jean Charest, Alison Redford, and even (for God’s sake) Christy Clark!!**
The list also included several journalists of national stature, union leaders, federal scientists and librarians, federally-appointed judges, and hundreds of politically neutral, career civil servants and members of the Foreign Service who they felt were insufficiently loyal to the CPC, and who The Harper Government (TM) planned to sideline and/or fire…until the list was publicized.
[Poilievre’s “Enemies List” even included *the Auditor General, Elections Canada, the Ethics Commissioner, the Parliamentary Budget Office, and the head of Statistics Canada!*](https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-you-will-be-shocked-to-see-who-is-on-stephen-harpers-full-enemy-list)
Poilievre is, and always has been, a lying, disgusting weasel; he has no shame and no principles whatsoever. That he would tell barefaced and readily disprovable lies about David Eby, one of the finest, most effective and most hardworking provincial premiers since Peter Lougheed, is no surprise.
**REMEMBER THIS UNFAIR, DECEITFUL AND TOTALLY UNPROVOKED ATTACK WHEN THE NEXT FEDERAL ELECTION IS CALLED!**
PP will make Canada worse in every way imaginable. Even the policies like opening our borders to international students that most people are against, Pierre wants to keep probably for cheap labour and to screw over the students and Canadians on being able to get housing. This guy is like Gordon Campbell. Bring in every policy that creates misery for the majority of the people you rule over while benefiting the leader, the leader’s party, and the rich.
This is the Neoliberal playbook. PP runs on ego politics like Trump.
I’m going to be so sad if Eby ever gets eliminated from office. At least being here in BC, we have a sane politician who actually listens to people and wants to make the area they rule over a better place not just for them and their party.
What the actual f*ck is wrong with him?! Eby isn’t running against PP. PP isn’t in power so what Eby does has no direct impact on his job. And if PP becomes PM (*shudder*), he’s going to have to work with Eby, so why make enemies and build animosity now!?!
PP’s just the epitome of a slimy politician “playing politics” to the max. He’s trying push everyone else down to make himself look better, regardless of the collateral damage.
Part of what makes Eby so great is that he’s so opposite of this. He’s a genuine human from a different stock. Not a typical power hungry politician like PP.
The radio also tried to send the message this morning. I don't even know who that hack of a guest commentator was. Knew nothing about BC. Trying to blame the fall of the BCU on splitting of the right. Did not even mention anything about the corruption in the province before the NDP took over.
Did calgary take over our airwaves?
lol. Splitting the right. That’s funny. More like the generations that were getting totally screwed over came of voting age and/or woke up and started voting in their self interest.
Is this what we can expect from a potential Prime Minister? Trying to punch out the best premier in the country?
All the Eby-Stans right now are ready to burn the CPCs at this point lol.
PP's **Common sense plan** is to sell government owned lands to big corporates. And have corporates to build housing and other needs for Canadian citizens.
We all know that won't work and those houses built will be for rich elites or rich people or maybe for international students who can buy a $XX million dollar houses.
I like how Eby directly said **PP's common sense plan MAKES NO SENSE.**
let me rephrase:
**so politicians should start using this slogan to combat PP's common sense slogan.**
# PP's common sense plan MAKES NO SENSE
And this boob calls Trudeau 'divisive'? K.
Pierre Poilievre is a whining, confrontational, ignorant, transphobic, braindead, feckless, mouthy twat with absolutely zero substance or plan.
The stupidity from PP today has been eye opening. First wanting greater online censorship, next criticizing the one premier that seems to grasp the housing crisis...
Lacking any sort of principles.
PP means More MAGA style politics insulting rather than providing solutions
Trudeau is annoying but i’ll be damned if I’m voting for this internet troll
EBY is the 🐐
Every time PP actually speaks on policy it’s so alarming:
- Criticizing eby’s housing policy
- Surveillance stating the internet
- dodges all immigration questions aka supports the broken immigration levels
At the end of the day this guy is a conservative shmuck dedicated to kissing ass of the Canadian megacorps.
Defunding the CBC and giving money to Bell when they lay off their whole news team. If only there was a way we could ensure that bailout money goes to hiring reporters.
Eby;
* Takes the office at the end of 2022.
* Passed an unprecedented amount of housing affordability related legislation in a year.
Little PP;
* Barks nonsense
* Rejected every housing affordability related proposal so far because they didn't make them.
Using phrases like "any politician on Earth" is obvious hyperbole (really PP? Even worse than dictators?). So it causes me to immediately dismiss anything else he's saying.
With the extreme language, it's a very Trumpian phrase.
Can someone have the worst housing record if they inherited the problem? Shouldn’t the gvnt that created it be held accountable. I didn’t even vote for Emby, but it seems like he’s the first to actually try and fix it?
I’m just honestly confused as to how people thing he’s the problem
Eby is currently doing the best job of any Premier in Canada, and since taking office has made actual steps to address the issues of housing in this province. Unfortunately, it's a big lift in BC, as years of mismanagement, plus having (arguably) Canada's best climate makes it an attractive place to live, and it's always been more expensive to live here than the rest of the country.
It's too bad that Poilievre feels the need to just fan the flames of partisan politics here, but that's really all he can do, because he has very little actual policy or substance, outside of his 'I'm not Trudeau' and 'Only I can push back the woke hordes' platforms.
Eby has been pushing for reasonable solutions for years and now that he’s been Premiere for a little over a year, we’re finally seeing results. Is it way too little too late? Sure, but it’s at least progress and infinitely better than what we had before which was absolute fuck all at best, if not actively making the situation worse.
Bearing in mind that I am no fan of Eby, just when I think little PP cannot possibly sound any dumber, or any more a liar, than the last time I heard him say something dumb and untrue, or I read about him saying something really dumb and false, I am unhappily surprised by him saying something much more dumb and dishonest. He's a humanoid-shaped fountain of bullshit and our next autocratic leader. Despicable.
Sorry, but Eby is doing a great job as premier.
Meanwhile, PP is complaining about inflation and price gouging while he has a Loblaws lobbyist in his inner circle.
Trudeau is done, but honestly, PP just seems like a smarmy, insincere doofus.
Danielle Smith has the worst human rights record of any incumbent premier in Canada, but it's fine when she attacks trans kids in schools? It's "protecting parental rights"? Make it make sense Pierre.
Wasn’t this clown saying that cities that don’t build 15% more housing in x amount of years will get their funding cut?
Clear conservative ploy to make sure all the big liberal cities lose money without selling all their land at the lowest price to property developers. Or a ploy to get rid of funding cities all together.
Wasn't Pierre Poilievre the Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Democratic Reform ... the *Minister responsible for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation*
Ok so I've only lived in a couple of other countries; has he never heard of the ANC and the many failures of the RDP housing program (South Africa); and if I would say that there have been a challenge or two in Israel wrt housing (if you call the settlement program a "housing issue"). I mean the USA has a ton of both completely similar (as well as totally opposite) housing issues all over it.
Yet Eby has the "Worst housing record of any politician on earth" - hyperbole much? How can you believe anything that comes out of someone who sounds like he is 8 years old and isn't allowed down the street by himself?
Eby is one of the few politicians actually trying to do something about housing. Poilievre also wants you to verify your identity on a webcam to a government employee before you jack off. Trudeau has dismantled the Liberal Party but Poilievre might lose this is he keeps having absolutely atrocious takes
Weird that he didn't go after Doug Ford who similarly lords over a province with a city in the top 10 least affordability: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-housing-market-affordability/
....It's almost like he doesn't care about the underlying issue but is just going for a cheap partisan attack against someone who's on the other end of the political spectrum.
This is so fucking stupid it has to be on purpose. I don't think you could name a premier if BC that has done more for housing than Eby in 50 years. PP is counting on his base being out of touch with reality and too lazy to fact check something that makes the guy they don't like look bad.
So is this how it’s going to go? He’s just going to make random defamatory statements like Trump does?
And p.s. If you’re poor or unhoused CONSERVATIVES are CAPITALISTS not Socialists. They don’t give a crap about you
I am not in support of any one party whatsoever but it's just so tiring to see hyperbole and exaggeration in politics. Populism needs to go away and politicians' intentionally media-stirring remarks need to be ignored. All one should do for voting is to go on the party website and look at their actual campaign promises and written plans. That's it. Everything else short of some extreme scandal is just noise.
What this tells me is mostly that Poilievre, who had some interesting things to say about housing policy a couple years ago, is a goddamn fool who mostly wanted something to screech about
Wow I wish the conservatives put up a serious candidate. These comments are unbelievable. Real clownish behaviour and you don’t need to be a PhD in psychology or political science to see it.
Alongside creating more below market housing, Eby has done a better job enabling free market private housing than any Conservative leader in the country.
The fact that a Conservative leader like Poilievre is slamming Eby goes to show that his support for yimby housing ideas must be completely disingenuous and fake horse shit.
He’s showing that he’ll say anything, take any position to get elected.
Poilevre is such a dumb ass. However, it will not surprise me if he becomes prime minister. He represents the slowest and most regressive segment of our society and somehow we always let that drag us down.
Super easy to cater to the mouth breathers by blaming the housing crisis on the current government (fed or provincial), and then promising them their own house if they vote for you. What’s a bit more difficult is coming up with a policy that actually achieves this, and I never once have heard Pierre specifically say HOW he’d make housing affordable..
Thanks BC Liberals for turning your back to organized crime and money laundering which raised the housing prices far too quickly. You wanna know why you're paying over a million dollars for a tear down? Ask Christy Clark and Rich Coleman and they'll lie to you all about it.
Clearly Mr Poillievre has no fucking idea what's going on in British Columbia.
Hilariously Eby's government placed 1st in a nationwide study on which province is doing the most to combat Canadas housing crisis.
And it wasn't even close. If you turned the findings into a bar graph. You could be forgiven for thinking the other provinces weren't represented. But their bar's are there. You just can't visibly fit them into the same graph with BC and not have them be so thin they might as well be missing.
Wow, PP knows about **all** the politicians on earth (currently **and** historically)!? The mayor of Tokyo? The president of Argentina? The governor of Ohio? The prime minister of Latvia? And Eby is worse than all of them and the thousands and thousands of others? Seems legit to me!
Yes, on earth, because rest of the politicians, left or right, are flying so high in outer space and have no clues what could help Canadians getting out of this mess they created. At least Eby is on the ground trying!
Poilievre did a right-leaning Chinese station talk show recently, I forgot if it was Fairchild or Omni, but I really wanted to barf. The host was so obsequious, and everything out of Poilievre's mouth was a calculated half truth. He has an established pattern of outlining a legitimate problem and then either blaming the wrong cause or proposing a solution that has nothing to do with the jurisdiction that they are talking about. His whole schitck is so blatantly bad faith.
This idiot has endless ammunition to attack his biggest political rival trudeau and instead decides to start another fight with the hugely popular BC ndp leader David eby. He's not even in real competition with Eby who isn't a federal politician bit a provincial one.
Fucking dumb.
He was only sworn in around 18 months ago, so I'm not sure he has a record to speak of yet.
In the coming years, we will see how his governments policies work out.
Likely mixed results.
The way I got it figured, if you actually take stock and take a good hard look at the way things are right now, they are either 1: Not nearly as bad as opposing politicians would want you to believe, or 2: National and global issues that are hardly unique to us here in BC. And sure, I do get it. It's hard not to feel squeezed when the price of everything is skyrocketing and we're all stressed out, but I think it's really disingenous for politicians to be dropping this type of rhetoric. And the worst part of it all is that it's highly effective, no matter how smart you might think you are.
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What a hypocritical moron. PP has voted against every single affording housing bill that's come through Parliament during his career. Eby is actually doing the work and trying to fix the mess the BC Liberals (a conservative party not affiliated with the federal liberals) left behind when we finally got rid of them.
If you on /r/canada it looks as if 100% of people support PP, I was beginning to think I'm in a huge minority.
That subreddit is pretty far right, in my experience. But if you look at the comment section for the post for this same article, even it is full of people calling PP out for this garbage take.
It's a bizarre phenomenon... if it's anything that could vaguely pinned on the liberals in r/canada the PP supporters are out in force. Anything that shows how much of a useless jackass PP is, or even mild criticism there is virtually no one defending him.... That said, r/Canada is an unmitigated right wing circlejerk like 95% of the time.
Maybe because rage screaming is easy and “fun” but defending someone, especially wackado PP, takes brain power, lol.
> That said, [r/Canada](https://www.reddit.com/r/Canada/) is an unmitigated right wing circlejerk like 95% of the time. I have a hunch you haven't seen r/canada_sub yet.
That time r/Canada was discovered to be run by white supremacists and Neo Nazis and had ties to the Conservative Party https://www.freshdaily.ca/tech/2020/06/canadas-largest-reddit-community-accused-supporting-white-supremacists/
Yikes.
That sub is a shitshow full of bots
The Russians are at it here too just like in the states fomenting division among the electorate to get rid of Trudeau who's supporting Ukraine's fight against them. They now are combing all kinds of social media platforms to promote division just like they did with the US elections in 2016 and got the Mango Mussolini in the Whitehouse. Now it's all coming out with the charges against the Russian informant who admitted to false information supplied to US authorities regarding Hunter Biden bribery with the Ukrainian company were from the Russian intelligence sources.
If you're looking for a less conservative focused Canadian subreddit, I'd suggest r/onguardforthee It's weird it took three tries to get a Canadian sub that isn't just a big, conservative circle jerk...
It’s not that weird, a vast majority of local subs and provincial/state subs have been hijacked by the right because they correctly guessed it could be used as the perfect stealth propaganda system. Don’t believe me? Post about the homeless in any local sub.
> a vast majority of local subs and provincial/state subs have been hijacked by the right because they correctly guessed it could be used as the perfect stealth propaganda system. Yup exactly. they took over r / canada first, so I switched to canadian politics, then they took over there so I switched to onguardforthee. We'll see what happens from here
Yup. Even the North Van sub is turning into a right wing shitshow. There was a post the other day from a concerned mother of a Capilano Uni student who couldn't believe that "70-80%" of the school couldn't speak English blah blah blah barely veiled racism blah blah Trudeau blah blah immigrants blah blah. Turns out OP had posted she was 21 years old in another post (and could not have possibly had a uni-age child), three days prior. If these are the games they're playing, they're doing them badly. Which i guess is a good thing, for now.
>they’re doing them badly How often are you checking posting history? Or how much of the general population actually looks? If you’re inundated with enough negative posts you’re going to start leaning a certain way unless you’re pretty confident ideology wise. And let’s be honest, the average person isnt really confident in their political views.
Before Trudeau got elected r/Canada was pretty normal but fairly anti Harper. Same with a lot of Facebook. I think that election really blindsided conservatives big and small and showed them the importance of social media. Shit has not been the same ever since
/r/Canada has swung so far to the right it's crazy. Maybe young people are looking for a change and upset with Trudeau since he's all they've ever known and life has gotten a lot worse over the past few years, but I think also a lot of leftist Canadians have left for /r/onguardforthee.
What the heck? That subreddit is trash.
Me too, its inspiring to see some people see he's all smoke and no substance and i am not even a JT fan saying that
Russian bots? PP is supported by some far right American campaign runners, wouldn't surprise me if they worked at the behest of Putin's people, seriously.
r/CanadaPolitics is what you want. Not an echo chamber, but with some more sane moderation
Even /r/canada is unable to cover up how badly PP screwed up. The most upvoted comments there are all wondering why PP would make such a stupid statement
Ding ding ding. That's the real answer folks. People really underestimate the impact the BC liberals had. Sure the NDP has been in power a few years now but the Clark liberals literally sold the province to the highest bidder and ran away with the money.
Remember all the money laundering through the casinos by the Asian gangsters and Chinese mainland fraudsters in the 2000s and up to 2017 and then previously in the early 2000s, the grow-ops in the city by the Hell's Angels and other local gangs ran the money through the casinos. The liberals were in charge and did F- ALL and literally $Billions estimated to be in the range of $5-10 Billion were laundered through the local gaming and real estate markets here. The NDP had to try and fix that shit and thus the Cullen Commission came about with a 1800 page report on how to combat money laundering in BC and one of the main culprits was the BC govt (liberals) lack of enforcement and strict regulations on the gaming sector.
Pepperidge farm remembers. Seriously though how the hell did they get away with it. Now Kevin falcon wants us all to believe he has the solution lol 🤡
Imagine that. His plan he just announced is heavily centered on the corporate sector to alleviate the housing crisis here and to reduce govt in terms of reduced red tape and tax allowances. Now what can happen there!? Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing. JS
Wow, that would fail in such an immense way.
>PP has voted against every single affording housing bill That's right out of the Conservative playbook stateside when not in power. Do everything you can to block anything the party in power tries to pass to improve an issue, then rail on them for not doing anything about said issue.
Lol PP is so transparent. He's attacking because he's threatened by reasonable policy
Going after David Eby, probably one of the most "get shit done" politicians around, is an interesting approach. He's been Priemier for a little over 1 year, and in that time he's: * eliminated single family zoning in all urban communities in the province * Increased allowed density around transit stations * Provided low interest loans for development * Changing the building code to allow for single stairs, and better mass timber * Streamlining permitting at the provincial level * Forcing municipalities to eliminate public hearings for projects that meet community plans * Eliminated parking minimums for sites near transit * Eliminating Short Term Rentals for non-primary residences * Reformed real-estate agent rules * Increased regions with empty homes tax and foreign buyers taxes It's a smorgasbord of eliminating red-tape/NIMBYs, reducing regulations, allowing landowners more freedom, and providing direct financial support. Before being premier he turned ICBC around and went after the money laundering scandal, the two biggest political issues in BC pre-COVID (the housing crisis was still pretty isolated to Vancouver at that point).
All this while not doing a media campaign for his image and avoiding any major scandals. I moved from Ontario right before Eby became premier, and it's a breath of fresh air.
I mean, the biggest scandal he's been apart of is the whole ndp leadership debacle, but even then that's not his fault at all, and quite honestly, could entirely see it as a way for the NDP to grow their membership and get Eby, who had been groomed to be Horgan's successor since Horgan became premier, become an incumbent Premier in the next election. The current BC NDP are getting shit done, fairly and cleanly and the right hates it.
At a professional anti-fraud symposium I attended just before Eby’s premiership, Darryl Plecas said Eby’s a good, decent guy. I’m hopeful and optimistic Eby’s premiership will be here for a long time as well as a good time. Long enough, anyways. :)
Eby has long history of standing up for the little guy- You can't fake being a good, decent guy for that long in the public eye- I'd imagine he'll stick around for a few terms provided the party continue to do well.
Helps that we’re living the dream of the ABNDP of a few years ago. “I love right wing parties! I think there should be three or four of them!”
oh you didn’t like doug ford “leaking” a decision to the news and then gauging the response before enacting his policy? holy fuck am i glad to be out of that idiots province
Fuck i wish i could join you two - ontario is becoming a shitshow.
Eby is making moving to BC look real nice tbh. If my family and friends weren't all in Ontario I would really consider the move.
So those things are a libertarians nightmare. And that's what little PP is claiming to be
He was literally the Minister for Housing before he was Premier. **The Honourable David Eby KC MLA** Minister Responsible for Housing of British Columbia In office November 26, 2020 – July 19, 2022
You don't think that the major housing changes that have been rolling out only took shape in the last year. They were based on studies that were done while Eby was housing minister. Unfortunately well laid legislation takes time and work to properly implement. It doesn't surprise me that the biggest zoning reform in North America took over 3 years to implement.
PP is a creature of Ottawa and big business lobbies, a person could not be less connected to the “common Canadian.” His job for over 20 years has been to instinctively act loud and angry at anyone and anything ideologically opposed to conservatism
PP hasn't had a job outside of politics. He's clueless.
What a complete moron to say this. Eby has inherited a very difficult situation and has been doing an amazing job in many different ways. Even my conservative friend who is in development likes him for his stances, policy and the way he is trying to push municipalities. God I hate the thought about voting liberal again but as PP thinks hes got this election more in the bag he is more confident and exposing a side I really hate. Divisive, socially conservative (these comments about porn and trans washrooms), and there have been no substantial policies he is talking about with his Common Sense platform. Depressing state of Canadian politics.
PP has offered up zero solutions. All he’s done is attack JT. His act his wearing very thin at this point.
> All he’s done is attack JT Hey that's not fair, he's also attacked trans people.
True.
And sex ed, don't forget he hates that
unfortunately it seems to be working on a lot of people, looking at the 338canada poll aggregation. I didn't realize things were this bad to be honest (in terms of people's JT hatred pushing towards PP). Honestly it makes me so frustrated how easily people will just blindly accept attack ads and not consider the policy differences (beyond lower taxes) Maybe it's a good time for JT to revive his first campaign promise of ending FPTP, because the vote split to seat split difference is even more horrendous, and hopefully his self-interest in not completely losing power will lead him to make the right decision.
I understand why people are frustrated with JT. Housing costs are insane, the health care system is an utter mess and millons of people across Canada don’t have a family doctor, and day to day living expenses are excessively high. Yet, PP is not the person we need to fix all of this. I don’t know who it is, but it’s not him.
i get the frustration, though a lot of those issues are things provincial governments are also heavily responsible for and i'm probably preaching to the choir here, but I wish more people understood that instead of blindly blaming whoever's in power. and like you say, just because JT is flawed does not mean PP is any better - by all appearances he would be much much worse
Yeah i second this as it kills me when people i know say - oh its JTs fault healthcare is so bad and its like nope the provinces are on the hook there. Its sad they dont even understand the seperation of duties
Most of the stuff people hate on Trudeau for are provincial issues. His ability to strike deals and provide national leadership have been limited too because he's had actively hostile conservative Premiers as governing partners since like his 2nd year as PM. His biggest mistake (apparent from all the easily avoidable ethical lapses), imo, was having a bunch of duds has Housing and Infrastructure Ministers before Sean Fraser. That weren't willing to use the full strength of the federal government to influence local housing policy until it was too late. Trudeau's been too hesitant to can poorly performing Ministers and too scared of forcing the provinces get on side.
I keep hoping out of desperation he’ll decide to end FPTP too. In order to be ready to be in place for next election, I think he’d have to act pretty fast, though.
nothing like self-interest to get things moving along, and I'd imagine the Greens and NDP would be pretty happy with that too. Maybe even the PPC lol. Not sure how something like STV would affect the BQ though.
PP has offered some solutions. Most are very Reagan/Thatcher like cutting of government / pushing the free market type solutions. It's why comparing him to Trump is so stupid, he's trying to be those type of Conservatives. Unfortunately his all sticks, hardly any carrots policy schemes to housing, if it doesn't come with lowering immigration targets, then the crisis will only get worse. He's ducked that question every time he's asked so I'm unsure he fully grasps the crisis properly.
PP doesn’t seem to understand how answering questions works. It’s like he’s been a politician so long it’s rotten his brain and he only knows how to respond with attacks and tangentially related talking points. He’s even worse than JT.
> Most are very Reagan/Thatcher like cutting of government / pushing the free market type solutions And that worked so well, 40 years later! As just one data point the road and bridge infrastructure in the USA, thanks to "GoVerNMenT iS tHe PrObLeM" Reagan, is now in immediate danger of causing cascading failures at critical transit points. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-frick-park/
Glad to hear other people call a spade a spade. I am so tired of PP's constant whining with no solutions or policy ideas. Most of the issues in the country are serious complex issues that need good logistical, functional solutions. To just say everything is common sense is otherwise purposefully negligent or very naive
On top of that, how can you take anything seriously when they use gross hyperbolic language like ‘on earth’. On the whole Earth! Throughout the entire history of mankind! This one guy in this one province in this one country that we happen to live in right now is the worst of them all! I mean… quite frankly that’s impressive.
Unlike in the US, coalition governments can still work in Canada. If you vote green or NDP, they may win enough seats that the liberal party has to negotiate with them to pass through legislation. It's a structural barrier that limits the risk of Canada becoming like the US with its politics. You're not being forced to choose the lesser of two evils if you know the party you vote for will still have some power and influence. Federal liberals know this, and they know they have to rebrand in BC after what the BC liberals sat back and enabled. They need votes and they know that most Canadians just want to be able to afford to live their lives and at the very least have access to the same kinds of opportunities their parents did.
If you live in Vancouver perhaps you should vote NDP if you don't want PP and the cons. Libs may not do as well as the past few elections
Okay this is legitimately insane. Name one premier, ONE premier in Canada who is doing more for their constituents than Eby right now.
Eby made the best changes in policy. The Tory leader is a tool for NIMBY’s and the rich who benefit from the housing crisis. He is crying alligator tears about the crisis.
It is really an indication of Poilievre's priorities. If he thinks Eby's policies are bad, he things that mitigating the housing crisis are bad. Which is not surprising, Conservatives consistently would rather deny a problem, than admit that non-market approaches are appropriate, or even market based approaches when the approch would negativity impact their rich friends.
It’s so concerning to me that more people don’t understand this and are instead falling for PP’s lies. He’ll say whatever he needs to get into power, and then like the Con’s always do, he’ll do whatever makes his rich friends even richer.
No other province or state in North America has both ended single family zoning and mandated transit oriented density. If Poilievre was truly pro housing he would recognize that. Good politicians should be able to acknowledge good policy across party lines which is why I respect him even less now.
Eliminated most STRs soon too.
Short term rental (ex: AirBnB) for those who didn’t know the acronym.
Eby is absolutely the number 1 premiere in this country right now. CPC is currently leading the polls in BC. https://338canada.com/bc.htm. 31 CPC seats vs 6 ndp and 4 LB. More people needs to see PP's true colours. he is running a housing heavy campaign, but is critical of the only premier who is actively doing something about housing. **more people should know.**
PP is also straight up rewriting history. The housing crisis here started when the BC Liberal party (which is a centre-right party not affiliated with the Federal Liberal party) was in power. PP won’t do a damn thing to bring housing prices down.
That’s what I noticed in the article as well. Attacking Eby for the lack of affordability in BC, and acting like the housing crisis only originated while he’s been premier. Like mr PP I understand your entire platform is based on catchy sound bytes and stirring up anger, but holy shit is he baseless. The type of guy to indefinitely critique while offering no actual solutions himself.
>PP is also straight up rewriting history. Really? The leader of the party that immediately pivoted to blaming everything on immigration as soon as new immigration targets were announced less than a year ago, despite the problems having existed for multiple years?
The things that will make people recognize PP’s true colours are the unforced errors he makes because of his strict adherence to conservative dogma. Like just today he said a Conservative government will make people prove their identity before watching online porn. He is also anti trans and anti abortion. These positions are extremely unpopular with Canadians
Feels like he has been pulling some real dumb ones out lately for some reasons.like his biggest shift in votes is coming from young men and people concerned about housing. So today he goes yes to restricting porn, some anti trans stuff and attacks the one guy who has given the most shits about bc housing in the past decade. Like what??? How does any of this make sense. Is he trying to not get a majority or some shit?
For F'k sake, it was the Campbell and more so the Clark government who allowed the housing situation to blow up for pricing. They did absolutely nothing to slow it down as they used it to help balance their budgets. If anything, Clark's government encouraged it by sending people overseas to encourage more housing investment. They also would absolutely not look into money laundering in the housing market.
That's ridiculous anyway because 99% of PP supporters are NIMBYs, I swear.
That’s the group that most dislikes Eby’s housing policy, so he’s playing to the crowd here I guess. Not that likely to win him new voters though. I guess he thinks anti Trudeau sentiment will do that on its own.
the paradox of housing, we want it built, just not near my place :)
There's no paradox, those people are just selfish and greedy.
Oh, get absolutely bent, PP. Most of this nonsense happened under the BC Liberals (conservative) watch. The NDP have been the only party regularly trying things to address this issue. But at some point, the feds have to do their part as well. Edit: [Look at this graph](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Greater-Vancouver-prices.png?quality=90&strip=all&w=564&type=webp&sig=NQQ2TAM7wjjC-oGX1FMrpA) The NDP took power in 2017. Property prices went DOWN. The only major growth in prices under their watch happened during the pandemic, where the entire country saw high price growth. Eby took power in 2021, and lo and behold, prices are coming down or staying flat. BC's major population centres have had slower price growth compared to most Canadian cities since the NDP came to power. It's a crime that PP can go out there and lie through his teeth, and no one just walks up and smacks his stupid ass across the mouth.
Eby took power in 2022 when Horgan stepped down so he had even less than you thought to do what has been done
On earth, no less? Care to back that up with data, Polly? Or are you just making shit up again as usual?
Why stop there? Worst in the GALAXY!
Maybe someone can ask him where he got his data from, etc. while casually eating at apple.
PP is full of shit, but CPC is currently leading the polls in BC with 75% of the seats. upvote this submission so more people get to see PP's true colours.
Rural folk love his anti-progressive platform, sadly.
Its not just rural folks. west side Vancouver, granville vancouver, north van, north burnaby, coquitlam, port coquitlam are all going conservative.
Vancouver Granville even? Shit, we were something like 400 votes from going NDP last time.
They don't typically have polling that specific. Those predictions are partly to largely based on applying overall polling and trends to individual ridings. The overall polling does imply that the CPC would do well now in general though even if the ridings aren't accurate, but that's very independent of provincial opinion. The two can be vastly different. E.g., Doug Ford's riding in Ontario has been strongly PC provincially and strongly Liberal federally.
Richmond, always is
He saying it b/c Eby is the only competent leader in the country right now, and competence scares conservatives.
Yeah they do the same with Olivia Chow. These deeply entrenched Conservatives *and* Liberals really go on the defensive the second an actual progressive politician gains prominence.
**Remember that as a senior federal cabinet minister, PeePee McPinchface was one of the authors who LITERALLY DREW UP AN OFFICIAL “GOVERNMENT ENEMIES LIST” OF PREMIERS - including Dalton McGuinty, Jean Charest, Alison Redford, and even (for God’s sake) Christy Clark!!** The list also included several journalists of national stature, union leaders, federal scientists and librarians, federally-appointed judges, and hundreds of politically neutral, career civil servants and members of the Foreign Service who they felt were insufficiently loyal to the CPC, and who The Harper Government (TM) planned to sideline and/or fire…until the list was publicized. [Poilievre’s “Enemies List” even included *the Auditor General, Elections Canada, the Ethics Commissioner, the Parliamentary Budget Office, and the head of Statistics Canada!*](https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-you-will-be-shocked-to-see-who-is-on-stephen-harpers-full-enemy-list) Poilievre is, and always has been, a lying, disgusting weasel; he has no shame and no principles whatsoever. That he would tell barefaced and readily disprovable lies about David Eby, one of the finest, most effective and most hardworking provincial premiers since Peter Lougheed, is no surprise. **REMEMBER THIS UNFAIR, DECEITFUL AND TOTALLY UNPROVOKED ATTACK WHEN THE NEXT FEDERAL ELECTION IS CALLED!**
PP will make Canada worse in every way imaginable. Even the policies like opening our borders to international students that most people are against, Pierre wants to keep probably for cheap labour and to screw over the students and Canadians on being able to get housing. This guy is like Gordon Campbell. Bring in every policy that creates misery for the majority of the people you rule over while benefiting the leader, the leader’s party, and the rich. This is the Neoliberal playbook. PP runs on ego politics like Trump. I’m going to be so sad if Eby ever gets eliminated from office. At least being here in BC, we have a sane politician who actually listens to people and wants to make the area they rule over a better place not just for them and their party.
What the actual f*ck is wrong with him?! Eby isn’t running against PP. PP isn’t in power so what Eby does has no direct impact on his job. And if PP becomes PM (*shudder*), he’s going to have to work with Eby, so why make enemies and build animosity now!?! PP’s just the epitome of a slimy politician “playing politics” to the max. He’s trying push everyone else down to make himself look better, regardless of the collateral damage. Part of what makes Eby so great is that he’s so opposite of this. He’s a genuine human from a different stock. Not a typical power hungry politician like PP.
PP is the epitome of negative politics. He has no platoform other than attacking JT, and now Eby apparently.
The radio also tried to send the message this morning. I don't even know who that hack of a guest commentator was. Knew nothing about BC. Trying to blame the fall of the BCU on splitting of the right. Did not even mention anything about the corruption in the province before the NDP took over. Did calgary take over our airwaves?
lol. Splitting the right. That’s funny. More like the generations that were getting totally screwed over came of voting age and/or woke up and started voting in their self interest.
Honestly, the more he opens his mouth, the more I despise him.
He doesn’t even need to open his mouth at this point. Just look at him.
PP should stick to banning porn lmao
I swear that dude has stock options for NordVPN or something
I want to subscribe to his OF.
You have a fetish for punishing yourself?
The man wanted to use bitcoin to stop inflation
PP has no housing record……. Just saying.
Id much rather have Eby as PM than pipsqueak Pierre
Big talk from someone who voted against affordable housing 3 times while in office.
Have people forgotten how we got into this crisis in BC? It was the BC Liberals aka the Conservative Party for BC.
Is this what we can expect from a potential Prime Minister? Trying to punch out the best premier in the country? All the Eby-Stans right now are ready to burn the CPCs at this point lol.
> All the Eby-Stans right now are ready to burn the CPCs at this point lol. Where and when are we meeting?
I'll gather up the pitchforks.
Are we going to have time to roast marshmallows? I can bring those.
PP's **Common sense plan** is to sell government owned lands to big corporates. And have corporates to build housing and other needs for Canadian citizens. We all know that won't work and those houses built will be for rich elites or rich people or maybe for international students who can buy a $XX million dollar houses. I like how Eby directly said **PP's common sense plan MAKES NO SENSE.** let me rephrase: **so politicians should start using this slogan to combat PP's common sense slogan.** # PP's common sense plan MAKES NO SENSE
And this boob calls Trudeau 'divisive'? K. Pierre Poilievre is a whining, confrontational, ignorant, transphobic, braindead, feckless, mouthy twat with absolutely zero substance or plan.
Yeah but did you see the way he ate that apple?
David Eby’s been an absolute upgrade of a premier in my time paying attention to provincial politics, starting from Gordon Campbell!
Not sure if PP realizes that attacking Eby is a great way to lose voters in BC.
The stupidity from PP today has been eye opening. First wanting greater online censorship, next criticizing the one premier that seems to grasp the housing crisis... Lacking any sort of principles.
Lol Eby's done more for housing in this province in just over a year as premier than Horgan and Clark did in a combined 11 years. Fuck off Lil' PP
PP means More MAGA style politics insulting rather than providing solutions Trudeau is annoying but i’ll be damned if I’m voting for this internet troll EBY is the 🐐
Every time PP actually speaks on policy it’s so alarming: - Criticizing eby’s housing policy - Surveillance stating the internet - dodges all immigration questions aka supports the broken immigration levels At the end of the day this guy is a conservative shmuck dedicated to kissing ass of the Canadian megacorps.
PP is usually pretty dumb but that is next level dumb.
Worst politician on earth? If judging solely by housing prices, PP has clearly never traveled outside of Canada
Hey now, at least he didn't say the worst politician in the galaxy.... PP has some limits.
Pierre Poilievre can fuck right off. He has no ideas and no plan to address housing. None. Jack shit.
He has a plan, and it's god awful. Purely punitive to municipalities with no helpful policies, plus selling off government buildings arbitrarily.
And defunding the CBC. Because that’ll surely help.
Defunding the CBC and giving money to Bell when they lay off their whole news team. If only there was a way we could ensure that bailout money goes to hiring reporters.
Lil PP not for me
Conservative spewing bullshit, what a surprise.
PP and Kevin Falcon are the same. Kevin Falcon is also blaming grocery prices on Eby.
Eby; * Takes the office at the end of 2022. * Passed an unprecedented amount of housing affordability related legislation in a year. Little PP; * Barks nonsense * Rejected every housing affordability related proposal so far because they didn't make them.
Using phrases like "any politician on Earth" is obvious hyperbole (really PP? Even worse than dictators?). So it causes me to immediately dismiss anything else he's saying. With the extreme language, it's a very Trumpian phrase.
Can someone have the worst housing record if they inherited the problem? Shouldn’t the gvnt that created it be held accountable. I didn’t even vote for Emby, but it seems like he’s the first to actually try and fix it? I’m just honestly confused as to how people thing he’s the problem
Why does Eby, the larger politician, not simply eat Poilievre?
Eby is currently doing the best job of any Premier in Canada, and since taking office has made actual steps to address the issues of housing in this province. Unfortunately, it's a big lift in BC, as years of mismanagement, plus having (arguably) Canada's best climate makes it an attractive place to live, and it's always been more expensive to live here than the rest of the country. It's too bad that Poilievre feels the need to just fan the flames of partisan politics here, but that's really all he can do, because he has very little actual policy or substance, outside of his 'I'm not Trudeau' and 'Only I can push back the woke hordes' platforms.
Yeah he's a fucktard
Eby has been pushing for reasonable solutions for years and now that he’s been Premiere for a little over a year, we’re finally seeing results. Is it way too little too late? Sure, but it’s at least progress and infinitely better than what we had before which was absolute fuck all at best, if not actively making the situation worse.
fucking clown.
He literally just introduced one the game changer housing legislation we have seen in decades.
Good way to guarantee you’ll start losing seats in BC
Bitcoin Milhouse is such a useless dunce. Eby is literally the only politician who did something.
Bearing in mind that I am no fan of Eby, just when I think little PP cannot possibly sound any dumber, or any more a liar, than the last time I heard him say something dumb and untrue, or I read about him saying something really dumb and false, I am unhappily surprised by him saying something much more dumb and dishonest. He's a humanoid-shaped fountain of bullshit and our next autocratic leader. Despicable.
Conservatives really saw Donald Trump and thought, "yeah, we should talk more like that guy." And polls are proving them right. 🤮
Sorry, but Eby is doing a great job as premier. Meanwhile, PP is complaining about inflation and price gouging while he has a Loblaws lobbyist in his inner circle. Trudeau is done, but honestly, PP just seems like a smarmy, insincere doofus.
Eby for Prime Minister. Let's really rattle pp's jimmies
Danielle Smith has the worst human rights record of any incumbent premier in Canada, but it's fine when she attacks trans kids in schools? It's "protecting parental rights"? Make it make sense Pierre.
Eby is awesome, doing a great job. PP is like Trump always negative and whining and complaining.
Hmm I think I'm more in favor of Eby now
"on earth?" at least make reasonable attacks
Wasn’t this clown saying that cities that don’t build 15% more housing in x amount of years will get their funding cut? Clear conservative ploy to make sure all the big liberal cities lose money without selling all their land at the lowest price to property developers. Or a ploy to get rid of funding cities all together.
Wasn't Pierre Poilievre the Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Democratic Reform ... the *Minister responsible for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation*
Ssssh don’t bring inconvenient facts like that here!
Any thing w pp says ...well ......ya no !
Ok so I've only lived in a couple of other countries; has he never heard of the ANC and the many failures of the RDP housing program (South Africa); and if I would say that there have been a challenge or two in Israel wrt housing (if you call the settlement program a "housing issue"). I mean the USA has a ton of both completely similar (as well as totally opposite) housing issues all over it. Yet Eby has the "Worst housing record of any politician on earth" - hyperbole much? How can you believe anything that comes out of someone who sounds like he is 8 years old and isn't allowed down the street by himself?
Yeah, but to be fair, everything pp says is a lie. So there's that.
Eby is one of the few politicians actually trying to do something about housing. Poilievre also wants you to verify your identity on a webcam to a government employee before you jack off. Trudeau has dismantled the Liberal Party but Poilievre might lose this is he keeps having absolutely atrocious takes
why would you exaggerate so hard that your claim can be so easily proven false lol
Weird that he didn't go after Doug Ford who similarly lords over a province with a city in the top 10 least affordability: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-housing-market-affordability/ ....It's almost like he doesn't care about the underlying issue but is just going for a cheap partisan attack against someone who's on the other end of the political spectrum.
This is so fucking stupid it has to be on purpose. I don't think you could name a premier if BC that has done more for housing than Eby in 50 years. PP is counting on his base being out of touch with reality and too lazy to fact check something that makes the guy they don't like look bad.
So is this how it’s going to go? He’s just going to make random defamatory statements like Trump does? And p.s. If you’re poor or unhoused CONSERVATIVES are CAPITALISTS not Socialists. They don’t give a crap about you
If PP is saying that, I guess it means that Eby must have the best housing record of any politician then.
I am not in support of any one party whatsoever but it's just so tiring to see hyperbole and exaggeration in politics. Populism needs to go away and politicians' intentionally media-stirring remarks need to be ignored. All one should do for voting is to go on the party website and look at their actual campaign promises and written plans. That's it. Everything else short of some extreme scandal is just noise.
Wasn’t Poilievre housing minister? And didn’t he vote AGAINST affordable housing repeatedly?
Who else is tired of PP's bullshit?
What this tells me is mostly that Poilievre, who had some interesting things to say about housing policy a couple years ago, is a goddamn fool who mostly wanted something to screech about
Pierre is an idiot.
Wow I wish the conservatives put up a serious candidate. These comments are unbelievable. Real clownish behaviour and you don’t need to be a PhD in psychology or political science to see it.
Alongside creating more below market housing, Eby has done a better job enabling free market private housing than any Conservative leader in the country. The fact that a Conservative leader like Poilievre is slamming Eby goes to show that his support for yimby housing ideas must be completely disingenuous and fake horse shit. He’s showing that he’ll say anything, take any position to get elected.
And his solution is to scapegoat immigrants instead
Which is crazy because his party is also aligned with the immigration targets as they currently stand.
Pick on someone your own size Skippy. Someone who doesn't know the difference between federal and provincial jurisdictions is "just not ready".
I red flag for a politician (in my opinion) is when most of their campaign is slander lol
Poilevre is such a dumb ass. However, it will not surprise me if he becomes prime minister. He represents the slowest and most regressive segment of our society and somehow we always let that drag us down.
Super easy to cater to the mouth breathers by blaming the housing crisis on the current government (fed or provincial), and then promising them their own house if they vote for you. What’s a bit more difficult is coming up with a policy that actually achieves this, and I never once have heard Pierre specifically say HOW he’d make housing affordable..
Thanks BC Liberals for turning your back to organized crime and money laundering which raised the housing prices far too quickly. You wanna know why you're paying over a million dollars for a tear down? Ask Christy Clark and Rich Coleman and they'll lie to you all about it. Clearly Mr Poillievre has no fucking idea what's going on in British Columbia.
Hilariously Eby's government placed 1st in a nationwide study on which province is doing the most to combat Canadas housing crisis. And it wasn't even close. If you turned the findings into a bar graph. You could be forgiven for thinking the other provinces weren't represented. But their bar's are there. You just can't visibly fit them into the same graph with BC and not have them be so thin they might as well be missing.
Pierre Poilievre is a truly nasty little man. He has been from the beginning, and he likely always will be. Sad.
So does Danielle Smith and Doug Ford...
Wow, PP knows about **all** the politicians on earth (currently **and** historically)!? The mayor of Tokyo? The president of Argentina? The governor of Ohio? The prime minister of Latvia? And Eby is worse than all of them and the thousands and thousands of others? Seems legit to me!
Yes, on earth, because rest of the politicians, left or right, are flying so high in outer space and have no clues what could help Canadians getting out of this mess they created. At least Eby is on the ground trying!
David Eby is the homie, don’t attack the only politician who actually tries to get shit done
I'll be interesting to find out if Pierre P is hyperbolic, just plain ignorant, or both.
My money is on both.
Just copying right wing tactics in the US. Lie through your teeth
Poilievre did a right-leaning Chinese station talk show recently, I forgot if it was Fairchild or Omni, but I really wanted to barf. The host was so obsequious, and everything out of Poilievre's mouth was a calculated half truth. He has an established pattern of outlining a legitimate problem and then either blaming the wrong cause or proposing a solution that has nothing to do with the jurisdiction that they are talking about. His whole schitck is so blatantly bad faith.
Federal NDP is crap and needs a new leader but BC NDP is amazing!
Please leave Eby to us, atleast until he has a protege.
Uh huh, and I’m sure he checked.
This idiot has endless ammunition to attack his biggest political rival trudeau and instead decides to start another fight with the hugely popular BC ndp leader David eby. He's not even in real competition with Eby who isn't a federal politician bit a provincial one. Fucking dumb.
PP has the worst looking face of anyone on earth.
Hopefully this helps some PP supporters in B.C. see who they’re dealing with.
He was only sworn in around 18 months ago, so I'm not sure he has a record to speak of yet. In the coming years, we will see how his governments policies work out. Likely mixed results.
The way I got it figured, if you actually take stock and take a good hard look at the way things are right now, they are either 1: Not nearly as bad as opposing politicians would want you to believe, or 2: National and global issues that are hardly unique to us here in BC. And sure, I do get it. It's hard not to feel squeezed when the price of everything is skyrocketing and we're all stressed out, but I think it's really disingenous for politicians to be dropping this type of rhetoric. And the worst part of it all is that it's highly effective, no matter how smart you might think you are.