#con_carney

Canada, Following the Rules, Agreements, borrowing Europe's better ideas <- we're supposed to be good at this? Instead of privatize airports to build Canada, make affordable housing public. Follow Finland's Munifin and subsidize/ guarantee housing finance. No shortage of demand in Canada. Make financing housing less risky than privatizing airports and building pipelines. Follow Austria and Vienna's housing association legislation Have municipalities, worker organizations, and business groups ... collaborate to create affordable housing associations that each benefit from, with solid legislation to prevent compromise and abuse. But Canada's wealthy and well-financed for-profit housing industry will complain loudly and effectively.. “A non-profit housing system in Austria costs taxpayer money but it is a good investment. It reduces the amounts needed for household subsidies, shifts resources from high-income landlords to more construction and economy-wide consumption, it is a net gain for the economy,” #cdnpoli https://www.housingeurope.eu/new-research-from-austria-demonstrates-that-not-for-profit-housing-can-tame-the-housing-market/ https://www.kuntarahoitus.fi/en/who-we-finance/affordable-social-housing https://www.housinginternational.coop/members/osterreichischer-verband-gemeinnutziger-bauvereinigungen-revisionsverband-austrian-federation/

this is a really bad idea. the average rich person in Alberta with money to burn is gonna tie up scanner resources with ill-conceived personal missions and in so doing take resources away from people who actually medically need them in the public system. stop this UCP nonsense already! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pay-preventative-diagnostic-tests-alberta-9.7286559 #AbPoli #BrazenPrivatization #HealthCareForAll