Western Standard - September 18, 2023


Trudeau ‘house pricing cannot continue to go up’

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Steven Guilbeault Trudeau Smith Corey Dave
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In this episode, we talk about the new carbon tax introduced by the Trudeau government, and why it's bad for Canadian housing affordability. We also talk about why we should be worried about it, and what it means for our future.

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00:00:00.000 The Fraser Institute did a big study on what the new liberal plans for greening your house
00:00:05.660 and reducing emissions from your house.
00:00:08.340 We're not talking about you after a chilly fest.
00:00:12.700 Emissions from your house, green emissions.
00:00:15.160 And the Fraser Institute says in British Columbia, those rules will add an extra $85,000 to the
00:00:24.360 price of a new home.
00:00:25.780 $85,000.
00:00:26.660 This, I mean, keep in mind the average price in Vancouver is already over a million dollars
00:00:31.620 and now it's going to be another $85,000.
00:00:35.160 In Alberta, it's going to add $35,000 to the price of a home.
00:00:40.680 Premier Smith was quick to jump on that yesterday and sent out a tweet saying, look, this is,
00:00:47.400 you know, another kick in the groin to Alberta and we're not going to put up with it and 0.95
00:00:54.260 all that kind of stuff.
00:00:55.820 But it's, you know, a carbon tax, now green energy houses.
00:01:00.780 They're pricing Canadians out of livability is what they're doing.
00:01:06.920 Just think of trying to save $85,000 as a down payment.
00:01:12.780 It takes years.
00:01:13.640 And now they're adding years on to people being able to save up this extra $85,000.
00:01:18.920 It's crazy.
00:01:19.800 Well, $85,000 is one big expense.
00:01:24.600 The other big expense is the cost of the paperwork that goes into getting a permit to even begin
00:01:33.620 to build a house and then as you're building it to complete it.
00:01:37.460 It has been calculated that that million dollar house that you're speaking of in Vancouver,
00:01:44.700 $300,000 of that is in everything except wood and gyproc and concrete and it's all the,
00:01:55.440 what they used to call the soft costs when they were.
00:01:59.180 The gatekeepers now.
00:02:00.400 Yeah, well, I mean, you know, whether you're a liberal or a conservative,
00:02:05.260 you want a house to live in and so you should be listening to somebody who's got a sense
00:02:11.360 of why things cost what they cost.
00:02:13.200 To then add this other green charge on the top, you end up with a $600,000 house
00:02:20.780 for which you're going to pay a million dollars and then you've got to buy the lot.
00:02:24.320 And then, of course, who knows what that can cost you in Vancouver or Calgary or Toronto.
00:02:32.560 It invites the question, Dave, and I'm going to ask you,
00:02:38.480 do you think that it's actually a plan, an intention to make things more expensive
00:02:45.180 and to impoverish people or is this just a bureaucracy that is out of control led
00:02:51.680 by people who don't understand?
00:02:53.080 I think you've got a bureaucracy led by Stephen Gilbeau who is a radical activist
00:02:58.840 and he's happy to do all these things because that achieves his green utopia
00:03:04.960 and I don't think Trudeau is smart enough to realize the damage he's doing.
00:03:11.520 Or alternatively, he is all for it.
00:03:14.200 Exactly, he's all for it.
00:03:15.540 I mean, Corey here has written and spoken several times about the plan to drive us off the roads.
00:03:21.860 Drive us off the roads, make our houses unaffordable.
00:03:24.580 What exactly is the vision of society that this conjures up?
00:03:28.040 Well, I mean, my thoughts are for some, some it's just bureaucrats being bureaucrats.
00:03:33.000 They support bloat, they support delays, it's just their nature.
00:03:36.440 But some, I think there is an ugly ideology underneath.
00:03:39.220 I think Gilbeau is one of those.
00:03:40.560 They see humanity as a negative thing.
00:03:43.880 They see it as a bad thing that needs to be sidelined, reduced,
00:03:47.680 and it's also backdoor communism.
00:03:50.320 If we can keep, I mean, the solution always when it becomes untenable,
00:03:55.280 well, the state has to step in them.
00:03:57.280 The state will have to build the housing.
00:03:58.860 The state will build those brilliant Soviet-style long row apartments
00:04:03.820 that I got to see back at the end of the 80s when I toured over there.
00:04:07.320 Yeah, you don't freeze to death.
00:04:08.800 You didn't starve to death over there, but boy, you sure weren't living.
00:04:12.900 But they realize that people won't vote directly for that sort of policy,
00:04:16.800 but you can really incrementally put people into that corner,
00:04:20.000 and you make it more and more unaffordable.
00:04:22.160 The state keeps assuming that role.
00:04:23.600 And, you know, you bring in more things.
00:04:26.420 Wealth taxes, that was the latest, too.
00:04:28.040 We're going to hit the rich and save the poor, but it never works.