Trudeau is importing illegal squatting epidemic to Canada!
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Justin Trudeau announces a new bill of rights for squatters in Canada, and it s the biggest subsidy you could give to squatters because it s having the federal government fight landlords on behalf of people who have illegally occupied a home.
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In a desperate attempt to win back some of his old popularity, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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came out yesterday and announced a new Canadian renter's bill of rights, which in actuality will
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not really help renters at all in this country. The liberals are only doing this because they
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don't want to have to deal with their terrible mass immigration policies, get their own spending
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under control, or lower taxes. So what they're doing is attacking landlords for the problems
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that they have caused. And this renter's bill of rights is effectively the biggest subsidy
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ever that you could give to squatters, because it's having the federal government fight landlords
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on behalf of people who have illegally occupied a home. I'm going to get to Prime Minister Justin
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Trudeau announcing this, and then I want to talk about why this has been such an epidemic
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in the United States, and how Justin Trudeau is effectively importing this problem into
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Canada through this one piece of legislation. Check this out.
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As part of our upcoming budget, we're going to create a Canadian renter's bill of rights.
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It would create a nationwide standard for lease agreements, give renters a clear history of
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apartment pricing so they can bargain fairly, and make sure they have more agency. We're also
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going to launch a new legal aid fund that will protect tenants against unfairly rising rents,
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rent evictions, and bad landlords. He goes on to actually announce what I think is not a bad policy
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that people's credit scores should take into account their ability to pay for their rent in the past.
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But that is the main thing I'm taking issue with. Having a new legal aid fund for anyone who is a
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tenant to be able to get free representation from the federal government against their landlord.
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And first, let's just say this is probably very unconstitutional. Housing and especially
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rental unit policy is dealt with on the provincial and municipal level, and somehow the federal
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government thinks they can just stick its foot in the door and then just break into this area of
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public policy. Regardless, though, what they are basically going to do is what has caused a massive
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squatter issue in many U.S. states. When you have legal aid funds made available, you're basically
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saying that if you take somebody else's house, you just illegally occupy it, you come up with a fake
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lease agreement, some fake utility bills, then you have to be taken to court by a landlord to get you
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kicked out of the house because they can't just physically drag you out. That would be assault because
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you're a tenant. And now this legal aid fund is acting like the piggy bank for the person squatting on
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your house to have the federal government fight you. Or maybe you have to pay them $15,000, $10,000
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to get you to leave because then they profit off of it and they don't end up losing at the end of the
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day. I want to play you a quick clip from John Stossel's YouTube channel. I'll put a link in the
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description below to this video. It's very interesting. But this is what the U.S. is currently
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experiencing. Just a short taste of it. It's six months you haven't been there. It's my house.
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It is his house. But the man inside who won't pay rent keeps him from using it. Likewise, the owner
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of this house left town for three weeks only to return and find. There were cars in the driveway
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and people inside. When he confronted them, they said. No, we're living here. We have a lease. The
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squatters didn't have a lease. But today, squatters often claim they do. Go to a house and take it
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over. Bizarrely, laws favor the squatter. In New York State, you cannot legally lock a squatter out
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of your home or turn off utilities. And once a squatter is there for 30 days, they are classified
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as a tenant. Is there anything a homeowner can do about it? Well, Flash Shelton came up with a
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claim. I'll leave a link in the video so you can watch the rest of that. But basically what happens
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is that the reason these squatters, people who actually usually have a lot of their own money
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and could pay rent if they wanted, they end up having the state of New York or whatever state
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they live in, California, Washington, pay for their legal fees against their landlord. And the
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liberals are doing this because landlords are an easy target. Everyone has heard at least one horror
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story of a landlord who wasn't very good. Most landlords are perfectly fine. We should probably
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just call them property owners because that's what they are. They own the property that somebody
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is living on and that person is paying them enough money that it's actually worth their while to let
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them live there. Overall, let's just be clear. There's nothing to do with the housing crisis that is
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the fault of landlords. It is the fault of the liberals having 500,000 new permanent residents come to
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the country per year, more temporary foreign workers and students having a high spending that
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is causing inflation and high taxes, including the carbon tax that is making a lot of these people
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have to pay massive amounts of heating and energy bills for their buildings and homes that renters
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stay in. Landlords aren't in the business of just arbitrarily making your rent high. Like, yes,
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mass immigration, high demand allows them to push the price upwards. But generally speaking,
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someone is just going to go stay at a home that's more reasonably priced if they can get it. And if
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you're asking people for $5,000 a month, you're not going to get that $5,000. So with landlords,
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though, their costs are like any other product. It is based on the market, based on how much it costs
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them to put up the unit and maintain it. And when you have usually best stories about really bad
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landlords, like slumlord type situations, it's usually a situation where that person themselves is
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going bankrupt because of high utility bills, as well as high property taxes. It always comes back to the
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government being the problem. Whenever the government is not doing anything to actually
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make the problem better by removing tax and all this stuff, and they're blaming an individual,
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that's called a scapegoat. We shouldn't trust the scapegoat just because the scapegoat subject
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seems to be a class of person that is universally generally looked down on for whatever reason.
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A landlord's like any other business owner. But what the liberals are doing with this legal fund,
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and what's happening in these states, is that you can be a well-off squatter, sit in someone's home,
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and it doesn't cost you anything. Because if you were having to pay for it, you probably wouldn't,
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you'd probably get out of the house pretty fast, because this is maybe going to cost you thousands
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and thousands of dollars. Or if you do all the paperwork yourself, it's basically a full-time job.
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So that is what could get an actual legitimate squatter out of a house, unless the legal fund exists.
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When the legal fund exists, this person could be in your house for four or five months while
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legal proceedings go on. And they could say, well, I'll get out of your house if you give me
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$5,000. And they could just go and do it to another house. But they don't have to be stressed
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out at all. The state's paying for their side of the sort of legal dispute. That is obviously unfair
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to the landlords who are having to pay out tens of thousands of dollars for legal representation,
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or they have to go do the representation themselves doing payment work hours and hours a day,
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just to prove that this person does not actually live here. I do not have a lease agreement with
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them. And their utility bills are fake. It's so bad in some states, it is illegal to turn off
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the heating and like AC and like the water, even though you're paying for that, and they haven't
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given you a dime in rent, you still have to pay for the water. And some people get very vindictive
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who already stole your home. So it's not enough that they stole your home. They don't like that you
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want them out of the stolen home. And so they just keep the AC, the heating and everything on all day
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long in order to make you take on massive costs so that you might pay them out to leave your property
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and they'll go to abuse someone else like this. Anyways, what the liberals are doing here is super
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cynical. It is super toxic for the housing market. Everything the liberals have done part of their
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housing plan so far has not made anything cheaper. It has not made any new units available.
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If anything, they are incentivizing people to not rent their units because now if someone
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steals your place, at least you can say this was never on the market. It was never being rented
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so that we can't have a lease agreement. They're lying. Now you're actually incentivizing landlords
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to pull properties off the market. That's not going to help the housing crisis. We need more units and
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fewer people demanding those units by cutting immigration. It's simple as that. Justin Trudeau
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doesn't want to deal with those issues because it would put the blame squarely on him for the crisis
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