Well, there are worse things to pine for than affordability for all. I could be pining for the days when Canadians only had 1 or 2 sources of news, and lamenting how much easier it was to lie to the country that way.
Quebec governments have always been a lost cause. Because they're pandered to, and given everything they ask for on a platter (while spitting in the face of those giving it to them, no less). I don't know why the rest of Canada puts up with it; maybe they think it's cute, like taking care of a feral cat. I've never thought of it as especially cute, or amusing. I find their anti-Anglophone rhetoric distasteful, and the only reason they get away with most of it is because it's all said in French, and nobody outside of Quebec wants to watch French television or news. Hell, most Canadians are blissfully unaware of what goes on in Federal Parliament... are they really going to focus on the internal provincial matters when all our lives are going hell right now?
The only way it's going to change is by punishing the province economically. Businesses need to leave, and mostly importantly
people need to leave in droves, and the Federal Government needs to stop pandering to their nonsense. If
any other province had instituted some of the backwards-ass laws Quebec has, Trudeau (despite having no sense or morality, no ethics, no convictions and no balls) would've jumped down their throats in a heartbeat. Not because he actually gave a damn ('cuz let's face it, he's a sociopath who cares for nothing but himself), but because he thinks he might be able to trick a few more people into believing he's on their side so they'll vote for him.
When Quebec passes a bigoted law? Crickets. I can hear a pin drop in Ottawa all the way from Toronto. Because he knows that's how he gets
their support, and his silence isn't condemned by the masses because (bought and paid for) mainstream media in the rest of Canada reports on only the barest minimum of what the PQ does provincially.
The only thing I can do personally is my bit to punish them economically. I haven't set foot in Quebec in 20 years, and never intend to again. If I'm going to visit another part of Canada, I'll gladly go west. My investments, meagre as they might seem to our overlords, are all directed in exactly the opposite direction of our fake Finance Minister's suggestion to the plebs.
Personally, my long-term plan is to get off this sinking ship and retire somewhere cheap. South America, the Philippines, Sri Lanka. Somewhere I can live a few years and die quietly without any bullshit. Because that's about the best anyone in our generation can hope for. No family, certainly not children unless you don't mind being extra poor, no home ownership, no good standard of living. I no longer believe the damage done to Canada is reparable within our lifetimes, and our only hope of continued existence is relying on the United States for military protection? How ironic, given the way so many Canadians love to look down on it.
And the GTA has plenty more problems than
just home prices. Rent is also out of control. A full 10% of the city's residents now rely on foodbanks to feed themselves and their children. International students are being exploited and have been found living in conditions as bad as
25 kids to a single residential basement apartment. Both violent and petty crime are rising to levels not seen in years, car thefts are rampant, and if you're not lucky enough to have a garage you're likely to be missing a catalytic converter when you come out one of these mornings. There's one guy I work with who lives in a townhouse complex with no garages or underground parking, and his Jeep has been stolen twice. He's since installed the immobilizer on it, which apparently can't be overcome at the moment, but even now he'll come out in the morning to find the window broken after somebody's attempt to steal it.
Every dollar the government spends (sorry: borrows, 'cuz there is no actual money anymore, with $1.2 trillion in debt) now is making us all palpably poorer, and there's absolutely no end in sight.