Based on an article by Jay Goldberg in which he talks about how Favoring unions for construction costs taxpayers dearly, he appears to be imagining that the blue-collar workers are the problem when the real problem is the white-collar workers.
GOLDBERG: Favouring unions for construction costing taxpayers dearly
Now, personally, I think labor unions should be abolished, but we live in a free country, and people have the right to engage in whatever stupid idea they imagine will serve their purpose.
Construction in Toronto is horrible, primarily because of VOTERS; they voted for all of this stupid crap, imagining that a BIG GOVERNMENT would make their lives better.
This big-government white-collar workforce in Toronto and all over Ontario is the root cause of the madness. If we’re talking about generating revenue for the city of Toronto, Torontonians need more disposable INCOME, which can’t happen if most of their income is going to pay RENT.
Even when Canada’s idiot current Prime minister Justin Trudeau went to war with AirBnB, he actually made tax collection WORSE, because in order for these AirBnBers to maintain their BUSINESS, they’d have to spend money and employ people, furthermore people staying at these AirBnBs would then have more disposable income to spend into Toronto’s economy.
it’s a zero-sum game at the end of the day, and if all of someone’s money is going into their housing, they’ll have fewer dollars to spend on other things. Unionized construction workers are part of the problem, but they’re only costing a fewer hundred million, whereas the public sector WHITE COLLAR public servants are costing Toronto BILLIONS, and you have to remember that these white-collar public servants get paid even when they don’t help to build ANYTHING.
If Mayor Olivia Chow does a horrible job, she can vote to give herself as well as her colleagues a PAYRAISE, and the blue collar workers are merely taking advantage of the disfunction, which is part of the business cycle.
The problems start at the top, and at the top of Toronto’s problems are the white-collar workers. The solution for Toronto’s problems stems from regulations on HOUSING. Toronto has a LANDLORD shortage problem, and this landlord shortage problem revolves around the white-collar public sector working class, who have regulated higher prices in the rental market by making it nearly impossible for landlords to evict tenants, along with rent controls, which equates caps on earnings as a landlord, meaning as a landlord you have to charge a higher UPFRONT rental cost, just in case you get a tenant from hell.
When people steal from convenience stores, the convenience store owners have to raise the prices on all their customers, the same process applies to the rental market. If you’re a landlord, you can’t PRINT MONEY into existing like Justin Trudeau and the Federal government; you can’t even get Bank of Canada interest rates if you get a loan when you’re a landlord, you’re paying RETAIL prices for debt, and everything else, and nobody is going to feel sorry for you as a landlord if you go bankrupt.
So if the voting public wants to rent controls and unnecessary protections for tenants, well then the end goal is built in immorality into the overall economy, meaning ever increasing higher prices and the hallowing out of the middle class.