Aspirational, even.

Thanks for posting it.

If you feel it deserves a larger audience, please post a summary of it, relevant quotes, or something else so lazy casual readers (like me) can decide if they’re interested in following the link.

“Governments at all levels are failing to make the connection between the lack of federal enforcement and the unprecedented conditions facing our local communities,” MacLeod said. “We’ve never had more homeless people or people with psychiatric problems. There have never been more illegal drugs on our streets. Why? It can all be traced back to the impact of international crime, including organized commercial crime, drug trafficking, and money laundering. The federal government is largely responsible. The RCMP is tasked with the responsibility of federal law enforcement, but federal policing enforcement has not kept pace. Instead, we see more and more of our federal policing dollars being invested into a fundamentally flawed structure where the RCMP is stretched well beyond its primary mandate.”

There’s a lot of really interesting stuff in this article. Thanks for posting it.

Other categories may include

• “suicidal”,
• “enraged”,
• “planning class warfare”,
• “gave up, now living under a bridge”,
• “feeling pretty good about that house I bought in 2002”, and
• “my REITs are doing pretty well, thank you”.

Fine by me, but much of the op-ed refers to the housing crisis.

The housing crisis has been brought on by middle class tax policy, a lack of public housing construction, NIMBYism, financialization of housing (significantly by the middle class, although REITs have been getting involved recently), poorly planned immigration/international student policies, and the decline of skilled/unskilled trades (probably related to education, minimum wage, and tax policy). You can also add shitty transit/city planning to that mix, if you’re in to that kind of thing.

It would be fair to tax the rich more, and it would probably make sense to tax gainz on housing/real estate more aggressively. However, there is a massive failure of planning at all levels of Canadian government won’t be solved through simple adjustments to personal taxation.