If Canadian Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre joined the PPC: Pierre Poilievre continue to be the only strong voice standing up to CMHC – June 20, 2020,
If only Pierre Poilievre was in the People’s Party of Canada, it would be a game-changer. Now, in no way shape or form is Pierre Poilievre even considering the idea of joining the PPC, it would at this period of time be taking a step back for him as a Member of Parliament to join the PPC, but I wish Canada had more politically Conservivative irritants speaking up for Canadians.
I actually like that Maxime Bernier didn’t win a seat at his first swing of the bat because this gives me the chance to see what Maxime Bernier is made of.
When the NDP feared that Jagmeet Singh would lose his hometown riding they moved him to B.C! Maxime Bernier in the future might want to consider moving to Alberta, or an area friendlier to his form of Conservatives, I’m not sure if he would do that, but it could give him the opportunity he wants.
For myself, I love Pierre Poilievre primarily because he’s the only politician who makes the CMHC a central theme of his debt related arguments. For myself, I argue that CMHC mortgage insurance backed by taxpayers combined with provincial, municipal rent controls are a horrible combination for the poor.
The first thing to comprehend is that rent controls don’t work, and once they’re implemented you’d be an evil, cruel politician to get rid of them because most older people on fixed incomes are reliant on rent controls to be able to pay their rents, furthermore the governments worst fear with rent controls are the voters, because you have to remember that for some tenants the rent price was never the problem, some people simply have no financial discipline, so even if rents are low, some financially irresponsible people will prioritize other things overpaying their rent on time.
If you miss rent payments in the private sector, your credit rating goes down and fewer landlords are willing to rent to you, so one of the reasons metro housing exists has little to do with bad landlords and more to do with tenants refusing to pay rents on time.
It’s actually because of bad tenants why rental controls exist in the first place, of course, politicians can’t say this out loud, because voters who want to save as much money as possible will crucify them, in a free market, bad landlords eventually go bankrupt, in Toronto imagine if all the condos being financed by CMHC were rental apartment buildings, there wouldn’t need to be rent controls because the private sector would be fighting to house tenants who pay their rents on time, but the disaster the CMHC created is that condos can be used to store money domestically and for people living abroad.
A lot of people purchase condo units in hopes those condo units will appreciate in value, so the owner of that condo can either take out the equity to purchase another condo unit, rent it out for cash flow or flip it for capital gains, well all of these activities are bad for renters who make up the bulk of taxpayers and the point Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre tries to make clear is that bank profits are being fueled by the belief of the private banks that taxpayers will be on the hook if the CMHC created disaster goes bust.
Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre is the only person I’ve heard talk about this topic over and over and over again. Most Conservatives don’t bring it up, as a matter a fact, it’s not a major talking point of the People’s Party of Canada. The PPC is more obsessed with defunding the CBC, which is important, but the cash cow in all of this government growth is the CMHC!
The CBC is the propaganda arm of the Federal Government, but most Canadians including many Conservatives don’t understand economics. In Alberta, I know a lot of Conservative Albertans want CMHC to be more lenient which for me is a signal that most Conservatives don’t understand the problem.
What I actually like about current CMHC President and CEO, Evan Siddall is that he knows Canadians are ignorant of how CMHC is making the poor poorer.
Evan Siddall, when confronted by Pierre Poilievre, is as transparent as transparent gets, but it’s unlikely that he’s ever challenged because most Canadians don’t understand the problem.
Financial IQ in Canada is extremely low, which is why in my opinion, the devaluation of the Canadian dollar DOMESTICALLY is inevitable. I bring up Pierre Poilievre because I think together with Maxime Bernier they could make financial education a central theme in the PPC platform.
I actually think Maxime Bernier made a mistake taking the Quebec approach to stopping mass immigration, I’m still a huge fan of what Stephen Harper did when he made cutting the GST to 5% a central theme of his party platform. I operate in the private sector, Canadians love to save money, if you frame even immigration-themed arguments around cutting taxes instead of preserving Western Values, the People’s Party of Canada might be surprised how any more people they’d attract.
It’s rare I ever hear about Conservatives making saving money a central theme, I personally wouldn’t even engage in race or immigration politics, I’d focus on the economics. I’d leave mot social related topics up to the individual, I’d run my campaign on something like the PPC will lower the GST to 3% and I wouldn’t even explain how I would do it!
Of course, I’d cut the size of government, but Canadians would only learn about that if they asked me. Even during a debate I’m usually only given 2 minutes to talk, Maxime Bernier has a thick French accent, this would be the perfect time for Leftists to interrupt him while he’s speaking.
I prefer appealing to people’s individual greed, 3 or even 2% GST? the audacity some would say to themselves, how could Mad Max make such a ridiculous claim, but eventually people would start to think about how much savings they’d get when they buy things like a car, a computer, cell phone, or even clothing?
With Stephen Harper, if people remember, he said little about how he would cut the GST, he just made the promise, made the banner and delivered.
The cost of living in Canada is preposterous and only a handful of Canadians even qualify for CMHC ye we’re all paying for it, I, similar to Pierre Poilievre would attack, attack, attack the CMHC every chance I got. Because even if people don’t understand the problem now, eventually, people would figure it out.
Interesting times ahead!