Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[RangerRay]

The greatest economic boom in history happened when prices fell to record lows due to industrialization (during the industrial revolution). Prices falling isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it is actually a hallmark of successful capitalism. Our current ‘capitalists’ at the top want to avoid it mainly because it hurts their margins and equalizes the playing field. It also might shake up who is sitting at the top.

I’ve been saying for a while now that just because you’re a businessman doesn’t mean you’re a capitalist.

 

[Remius]

Feds order Chinese tech firm to close Canadian operations over national security

The federal government is ordering a Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems to shutter its Canadian business and leave the country over national security concerns.

www.ctvnews.ca

New gvt now taking a few things more seriously.

 

[brihard]

Feds order Chinese tech firm to close Canadian operations over national security

The federal government is ordering a Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems to shutter its Canadian business and leave the country over national security concerns.

www.ctvnews.ca

New gvt now taking a few things more seriously.

That's an interesting one. I haven't seen any background on this, but I could see why a Chinese manufacturer of surveillance cameras that use the internet for data could be a problem. While you and I will never know, it would be fun to know what specific intelligence informed the Investment Canada Act review that resulted in this national security determination.

 

[Kirkhill]

I’ve been saying for a while now that just because you’re a businessman doesn’t mean you’re a capitalist.

The alternative I think you are referring to is

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cor·po·rat·ist
/ˈkôrp(ə)rədəst/
often derogatory
noun
a person who advocates for the control of a state or organization by large interest groups.
"we knew that they would uphold the ban because they are corporatists"
adjective
relating to or characterized by advocacy for the control of a state or organization by large interest groups.
"they are beholden to corporatist interests and that's why they're making this secret side deal"

 

[HavokFour]

That's an interesting one. I haven't seen any background on this, but I could see why a Chinese manufacturer of surveillance cameras that use the internet for data could be a problem. While you and I will never know, it would be fun to know what specific intelligence informed the Investment Canada Act review that resulted in this national security determination.

In the early 2000's you could just put a make/model number of a lot of different types cameras into Google and it would bring up pages upon pages of privately owned ones that make you could view, and in some cases control entirely unknown to the owners and that existed for years. So this move makes a lot of sense in my mind. Better safe than sorry.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I’ve been saying for a while now that just because you’re a businessman doesn’t mean you’re a capitalist.

Just like there’s different flavours or socialism, as @Kirkhill pointed out, there’s more than one flavour of capitalism/free market approaches.

 

[MilEME09]

My issue with the housing market is when you look at it, the homes them selves haven't increased a crazy amount over the last 20-30 years. What's primarily inflated in the value of the land those homes sit on. Thats how we end up with 1.3 million dollar slum homes for sale. Its 1.1 million for the land with a 200k shack on it. So truly its land values that need to be reassessed in how we value land to bring down those prices.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

My issue with the housing market is when you look at it, the homes them selves haven't increased a crazy amount over the last 20-30 years. What's primarily inflated in the value of the land those homes sit on. Thats how we end up with 1.3 million dollar slum homes for sale. Its 1.1 million for the land with a 200k shack on it. So truly its land values that need to be reassessed in how we value land to bring down those prices.

The problem with land is that it is a finite resource. The amount we have that is desirable and available has been shrinking more and move over the past 50 or so years.

Scarcity = value. We aren't creating more desirable and available land due to stuff like the Greenbelt or other environmental things we know aren't the done thing anymore (Ducks Unlimited would have you hung drawn and quartered for suggesting draining a marsh to build a subdivision).

Until we reassess value on density, the problem will just get worse.