Why would you assume they're talking about a foreign election in a country that doesn't even have a Conservative or Liberal party?
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We have our own carbon tax in BC, it has nothing to do with the federal government.
The rest of us really dodged a bullet, look how they treat their own people…
Hold on, you can get an apartment in a major city for under $2000? Is the minimum wage in Quebec $10/hr? I don't live particularly close to any city and you'd be hard pressed to find anything more than a studio for $1500, you're looking at close to $2000 for something decent. I wonder how many months it would take to break even after moving costs from BC…
Might-E Trucks are pretty awesome, but I'm definitely not going to be commuting on the TCH in one.
And even if this was one of them, it clearly can't be that secretive if we're hearing about it.
Didn't Harper kind of screw us over by signing FIPA back in 2014? I haven't heard anything about it but those Chinese EV companies will probably sue us over these tariffs.
If we had vacancy control, we could swing almost every other policy way closer to what the landlords want. There'd be almost no incentive for bad faith evictions, and at the same time the financial impact of having to find a new place to rent would be minimized (if not initially, over time).
Right now we're so far the opposite way, we have to have all these protections in place. Of course landlords would love to toss their long term tenants to get double or triple rent each month, and at the same time it's financially ruinous for a tenant to have to suddenly find themselves an extra $1-2000/mo to afford even the cheapest rental on the market.
I'm not sure exactly what your point is, but we do ship a lot of raw logs across the Pacific right now. If China had good logs maybe Japan wouldn't import them from BC.
Positive pressure hallways/staircases would make a huge impact on the spread of smoke. Smoke would still be an issue if the fire was in the hall itself, but no amount of staircases can help you if you can't access them. The quote from the Fire Chiefs Association really makes me think we're using the second staircase to skimp on every other aspect of fire safety.
I was going to agree with you, but I think after reading your points I actually feel the complete opposite. I think if there's a role for heavy taxation to play it should be on new ICE vehicles, as opposed to on the gas itself. We're talking about new vehicles here, there are millions of perfectly good used vehicles out there that would fill all the roles you're talking about. Increasing gas taxes ends up punishing the people who can least afford it. Like the farmers who have to have to haul their equipment hundreds of kilometers between farms, the condo dwellers who aren't allowed to charge at home, and the renters who can't afford to install an EV charger, let alone buy a new car. The tax should also go towards making EVs more affordable at the low end (it would be nice to subsidize used EVs but I can see many ways to abuse something like that).
We need to get the percentage of new EVs up today so that tomorrow's used market is where we want it to be. We can only do that by encouraging those who can afford a new car to pick an EV, not by punishing those who can't afford a choice.
I'd rather live in a modern house I could afford to own that happens to look kinda boring than the poorly converted basement of someone else's boring old house that also looks like every other house on the street.